FROM MAY 13 TO NOVEMBER 05, 2023
The museums of Le Mans initiate a 2023 season dedicated to contemporary art. Philippe Cognée is the first artist invited to take over the rooms of the Musée de Tessé, Musée des Beaux-Arts du Mans, with a group of works produced over the last thirty years and gathered around three of the main themes that underlie the essence of his approach: nature, architecture, and the figure.
Philippe Cognée is one of the major figures on the French art scene, known mainly for his encaustic paintings, which he hijacks the traditional use of to dissolve the elements represented in the pictorial material using an iron. His works do not tell a story. The fruit of both desire and chance, his powerful and singular art is required by the real, of which he gives us a sublimated vision: it is this quality, through the choice of the works selected, that the exhibition will reflect.
PHILIPPE COGNÉE, LE RÉEL SUBLIMÉ (THE SUBLIMATED REAL)
FREE ACCESS
OPENING HOURS : EVERY DAY FROM 10 AM TO 6 PM
Musée de Tessé
2 Avenue de Paderborn
72000 LE MANS
