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Mathieu Briand
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Et In Libertalia Ego de Mathieu Briand
Starting in 2008, Mathieu Briand set up his studio on a small island in the Channel of Mozambique (Madagascar). On this island, inhabited for generations by a Malagasy family, Mathieu Briand initiated an artistic project inviting a number of artists to create works in situ or send instructions for him to do so. The project is called Et In Libertalia Ego, an allusion to the famous inscription Et in Arcadia Ego in Nicolas Poussin's painting. The idea is to recreate Libertalia, the pirate's utopia described in A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pyrates (1724), whose origins are an ambiguous mix of fiction and reality. The author's name, Captain Johnson, may have been a pseudonym for Daniel Defoe, the author of Robinson Crusoe. The exhibition traces the different levels of ...
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Starting in 2008, Mathieu Briand set up his studio on a small island in the Channel of Mozambique (Madagascar). On this island, inhabited for generations by a Malagasy family, Mathieu Briand initiated an artistic project inviting a number of artists to create works in situ or send instructions for him to do so.
The project is called Et In Libertalia Ego, an allusion to the famous inscription Et in Arcadia Ego in Nicolas Poussin's painting. The idea is to recreate Libertalia, the pirate's utopia described in A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pyrates (1724), whose origins are an ambiguous mix of fiction and reality. The author's name, Captain Johnson, may have been a pseudonym for Daniel Defoe, the author of Robinson Crusoe.
The exhibition traces the different levels of ...