with contemporary or old works:
amy friend, amélie barnathan, andré petroff, asimis alexiou, blanche odin, brooke didonato,
camille pissarro-bernard, cécile daladier, david schermann, denis pochard, edouard boubat, elisabeth gilbert dragic, enrico garzaro, ernest quost, eugénie bachelot-Prévert, florence grundeler, florent lebon,
frédéric léglise, gabriel folli, grégoire fournier, isabelle bonté-hessed2, jean-baptiste marot, jean-jacques grandville, jean-pierre sudre, jean marais, kanaria, lamia ziadé, laurence favory, margaux laurens-neel, meme olivi, michel jocaille, olivié keck, ori gersht, paul guiramand, penni vasama, philippe baumann, pierre-joseph dreaded, rachel marks, raf reyes, shepard fairey, sophie le son-in-law, tristan hollingsworth, vanina langer, victor garel, vincent olinet, zuae
"thank you for the roses" said academician jean d'ormesson, before adding ... "thank you for the thorns". whether they were “rose” or “thorn”, he celebrated each of life's events as a step forward in his quest for happiness.
it is this antiphon, he reports that she lit her way of life, which deeply resonates with muriel fagnoni and julia gai, the two curators of quand les fleurs nous sauvent when they hear it in full containment in spring 2020.
the idea of the event thank you for the roses, thank you for the thorns is born from the words of the man of letters, and with it, the challenge of attacking "the queen of flowers", adored or despised, precious or flower mass, and obviously overused. it is its “thorns” that will make this exploration possible and fascinating. quand les fleurs nous sauvent thus offers an anthology of works by some twenty artists, contemporary or old, who echo this ambivalence.
thank you for the roses, thank you for the thorns is thus an opportunity for the artists presented, to offer their vision of this flower through a variety of mediums - painting, drawing, photography, ceramics, or textiles.