In the lead up to the major exhibition, visitors can discover two exhibitions on the topic of time: Passe-temps (pastimes) and La course du temps (the course of time). Open until 28 August and 2 October 2022.
La course du temps (the course of time)
The Graphic Arts Bureau serves up an exhibition focussing on the iconography of the ages of life and the hours of the day and night. Since Antiquity, artists, documenting physicians and philosophers have divided human life into different ages. This topic is taken up by artists – as can be seen in the works of Marten de Vos and Henry Moore, inspired by Shakespeare.
Then there are the allegories of the day and night, including a series of gouaches of the twelve hours of the day and the night. Finally, the exhibition examines the different representations of the four main moments of the day (morning, midday, afternoon and evening/night) in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Practical information
- Dates: 03 June 2022 - 02 October 2022
- Times: 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Tuesdays to Sundays, and midday to 9 p.m. on Thursdays.
Passe-temps (pastimes)
Time is precious and we bear witness to this every moment of our lives. We are aware of the inexorable passing of time and of the fact that we only have a certain amount of time here on Earth. Despite this urgency, we sometimes try to waste time, to pass the time by devoting ourselves to an activity that stops us thinking of how time is slipping away.
While any occupation can become a pastime simply be seeing it as such, becoming absorbed in a repeated manual exercise or in the mental game of numbers and letters would appear to provide pleasure by giving ourselves over to what is non-essential, unaffected by the passing of time, as if reciting a continuous mantra that would carry us to a dreamlike state.
Making no aesthetic, social or moral judgement, the material testimonies collected here examine expressions of what some people consider to be a pastime, by choice or necessity, today and in the past.
Practical information
- Dates: 20 May 2022 - 28 August 2022
- Times: 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Tuesdays to Sundays, and midday to 9 p.m. on Thursdays.
Article modifié le 15.09.2022 à 08:45