Casey Kaplan
manifesto of fragility | 16th Lyon Biennale
September 14 – December 31, 2022
Presented on the third floor of the macLYON, the exhibition The many lives and deaths of Louise Brunet brings together several hundred works of art, objects and archival documents, covering diverse geographies over several millenia. From Cranach to 1960s industrial design, and ancient funerary stele to 18th century Japanese Samurai armor, the exhibition draws on the collections of local and foreign institutions such as the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lugdunum – Musée et Théâtres romains et Musées Gadagne – Histoire de Lyon – Marionnettes du Monde in Lyon and the Metropolitan Museum in New York, the Louvre Abu Dhabi and the Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen Dresden. It exhumes trans-historcial narratives of fragility and resistance and confronts them with a diversity of works by the biennale’s invited artists.
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