Artists' flavours

In the painters' kitchen

June 7, 2019 to February 2, 2020

In art, the meal takes the form of butchers' and fishmongers' stalls, still lifes, kitchen interiors and meal scenes, from the most religious to the most earthy. These are just some of the many subjects related to food, from its transformation to its ingestion, presented in Room 21 for this temporary exhibition of works from the museum's collections.

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At table with the painters

The Musée d'arts de Nantes is showcasing its permanent collections by offering the public thematic displays in Room 21 of the Palais, blending different periods in the history of art.
The exhibition Saveurs d'artistes, dans la cuisine des peintres (Artists' Flavors, in the Painters' Kitchen) takes visitors on a three-part voyage of discovery:

  • The meal as a social and sacred ritual,
  • The kitchen has long been perceived as a "feminine kingdom",
  • And the special relationship between art and food.

The tour humorously plays on echoes and oppositions between paintings, sculptures, installations and video.

Epochs collide from the 17th to the 21st century, calling on artists from all horizons: Gaston Chaissac, Niccolò Frangipane, Antonio Fabres y Costa, Martha Rosler, Adriaen Kraen, Toni Grand...

Spoerri at the center of the table

At the center of the space, like a transgression and an interrogation of the works that surround it, Daniel Spoerri'sHommage au jardin d'hiver de la Baronne Salomon de Rothschild places food at the literal heart of creation. Daniel Spoerri desacralizes the artistic process and paradoxically offers the ritual of eating, in its most everyday form, a perishable petrification, elevating banality to the rank of work.