{"id":4896,"date":"2026-09-02T12:04:05","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T10:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.minesparis.psl.eu\/musee\/?page_id=4896"},"modified":"2026-09-28T14:39:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T12:39:29","slug":"cosmos","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.minesparis.psl.eu\/musee\/en\/exhibitions-events\/temporary-exhibitions\/cosmos\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00ab COSMOS \u00bb \u2013 Edouard Wolton"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Artist Edouard Wolton exhibits 18 pannels in CMYK color-process, from minerals in the collection of the Museum, March 29 to April 22, 2017.<\/strong><\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n From March 28 to April 22, 2017, artist Edouard Wolton organizes a dialogue between matter and light in the prestigious collection of the Mineralogy Museum<\/strong>. The Museum is located in the heart of the Luxembourg garden and houses one of the largest and oldest collections of minerals in the world. Edouard Wolton invites us on a journey to the infinitessimal as part of a meditation on the astral origins of the Earth. The artist allows us, by his choice of subject and his detailled organization, a means to comprehend the origin and construction of the mineral specimens.<\/p>\n Wolton will install his work in the center of the museum on a tubular central structure of polished aluminum.<\/strong>\u00a0An assemblage of photographs become paintings, that, in turn, reveal the depth of the minerals and the inner logic of their constitution. The assemblage includes 18 panels, which began as photographs of minerals from the collection of the Mineralogy Museum, which were enlarged and magnified to 1 meter by 70 cm. In addition, Wolton uses a\u00a0CMYK-color process and\u00a0reworked the panels in ink and oil.\u00a0Small colorful and figurative paintings punctuate the visit.<\/p>\n By photographing the specimens at very close distance, Walton leads the visitor on a journey to the infinitessimal<\/strong>, crossing thresholds that evoke the formation of the Earth. From a distance we see the mineral shape in its entirety but up close the enlargement of the photo, the successive layers of paintings, inks and engravings, and the gradient of glazes create the sensation of losing the physical borders in a close chromatic pictorial domain. Like the collector of landscaped jasper, or of oriental jade, the visitor passes\u00a0through a succession of states to find hidden\u00a0landscapes, valleys, caves.<\/p>\n The paintings present in the first part of the exhibit maintain a close personal relationship between the mineral structure and the history of art, whereas the small-sized canvases hung at the top of the furniture make the stones appear like stars piercing the night, or like points of light which arise after the discovery of a beautiful mineral in the mines<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Since 2012, \u00a0Edouard Wolton has envisioned a subjective view of nature that summons imagination, romanticism and science<\/strong>. His method aims at achieving a figurative and symbolic representation based on personal recompositions that take into account as much the objective properties of the physical objects as the knowledge that it holds. At the moment of creation he proceeds by mental syntheses founded on the notion of contemplation.<\/p>\n Edouard Wolton’s approach is poetic and empirical. It offers a look at the mineral part and the astral part of the organized world<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Wolton allows us to perceive the slow metamorphosis, the imperceptible changes of form and nature which allow the minerals to be reinvented and remain contemporary. Within the scientific and classificatory envioronnement of the museum, it takes time and perspective to allow the eye to capture the imaginary.<\/p>\n This exhibition, presented by the Filles du Calvaire Gallery, is the result of a joint curatorial staff with Anne-Marie Morice, director of Transverse, and Didier Nectoux, director of the Mineralogy Museum MINES Paris PSL<\/span>.<\/p>\n Access the temporary exhibit for free with your museum ticket.<\/strong><\/p>\n Find all information regarding to accessing the museum here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Find the press release (in French) here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n
<\/p>\nABOUT THE EXHIBIT \u00ab\u00a0COSMOS\u00a0\u00bb<\/h4>\n
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<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n \nOpale, 2016.\u00a0CMYK color model on 350 g Hahnem\u00fblhe Etching Museum paper (Single print). Copyright: Edouard Wolton.<\/span><\/address>\n<\/td>\n \nStructure, 2016.\u00a0Acrylic and oil on canvas (26.5 x 35 cm).\u00a0Copyright: Edouard Wolton.<\/span><\/address>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
<\/p>\nTHE EXHIBIT IN A FEW PICTURES<\/h4>\n