A delightful exhibition reconnects with the golden age of transatlantic ships, in dialogue with the artistic modernity of the interwar period. A pictorial feast between the call of travel and the taste of the machine.
Le Figaro Nantes
depicts the sea voyage as « a meditation, a state ». From 1911, the writer embarked on several occasions in a cosmopolitan crossover between the Ancient and, alongside and, and, and… This meeting between the artistic effervescence of the interwar period and the he golden age of the great ocean liners forms the exciting whirlwind of the exhibition. Designed with the Museum of Modern Art in Le Havre, the tour highlights these twenty years of transatlantic aesthetics, the wedding of the avant-garde and oceanic travel, by dissecting the transformation of imagination which then crystallized in painting, photography, literature or poster art.
Numerous loans from the Écomusée de Saint-Nazaire enrich this pictorial feast. Gelatin silver prints show…
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