{"id":1053,"date":"2025-04-05T15:16:38","date_gmt":"2025-04-05T13:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurart.eu\/collection\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T10:45:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T08:45:17","slug":"collection","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.eurart.eu\/en\/collection\/","title":{"rendered":"Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column css_animation=&#8221;bounceInDown&#8221;][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;40px&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column parallax=&#8221;content-moving&#8221; css_animation=&#8221;bounceInDown&#8221;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]Eur\u2019Art holds a collection of Narrative Figuration works that brings together some forty pieces representative of the movement, as defined by the two Parisian exhibitions (1964\u20131977).[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column parallax=&#8221;content-moving&#8221; css_animation=&#8221;bounceInDown&#8221;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;1055&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; css=&#8221;&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column parallax=&#8221;content-moving&#8221; css_animation=&#8221;bounceInDown&#8221;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h1>Exhibition<\/h1>\n<h2 class=\"p1\">Contemporary Perspectives on Narrative Figuration<\/h2>\n<p>An exhibition curated by \u00c9velyne Artaud, art critic and artistic director of La Fabrique Centre d\u2019Art, featuring Eur\u2019Art\u2019s Narrative Figuration collection alongside works from the collections of partner museums.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>DOLE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: 16 May to 24 November 2025<br \/>\nCHAMB\u00c9RY MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: 19 December 2025 to 30 March 2026<br \/>\nESPACE MIRABEAU, AIX-EN-PROVENCE GENERAL COUNCIL: 15 April to 21 June 2026<br \/>\nCOTIGNAC ART CENTRE: July\/August 2026<br \/>\nHOSPICE SAINT-ROCH MUSEUM, ISSOUDUN: 25 September to 27 February 2027<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurart.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Figuration-narrative_Dossier-presse.pdf\">Narrative Figuration \u2013 DOLE Press File <\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-734 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eurart.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Unknown-1-215x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"215\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eurart.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Unknown-1-215x300.jpeg 215w, https:\/\/www.eurart.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Unknown-1-733x1024.jpeg 733w, https:\/\/www.eurart.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Unknown-1-768x1072.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.eurart.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Unknown-1-1100x1536.jpeg 1100w, https:\/\/www.eurart.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Unknown-1-1467x2048.jpeg 1467w, https:\/\/www.eurart.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Unknown-1-scaled.jpeg 1833w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 215px) 100vw, 215px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-829 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eurart.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Visuel_Affiche_FigurationNarrative-212x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eurart.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Visuel_Affiche_FigurationNarrative-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/www.eurart.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Visuel_Affiche_FigurationNarrative-724x1024.jpg 724w, https:\/\/www.eurart.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Visuel_Affiche_FigurationNarrative-768x1086.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.eurart.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Visuel_Affiche_FigurationNarrative-1086x1536.jpg 1086w, https:\/\/www.eurart.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Visuel_Affiche_FigurationNarrative-1448x2048.jpg 1448w, https:\/\/www.eurart.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Visuel_Affiche_FigurationNarrative-scaled.jpg 1810w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-842 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eurart.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AIX-Version-1-figuration-narrative-copie-212x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eurart.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AIX-Version-1-figuration-narrative-copie-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/www.eurart.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AIX-Version-1-figuration-narrative-copie-724x1024.jpg 724w, https:\/\/www.eurart.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AIX-Version-1-figuration-narrative-copie-768x1086.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.eurart.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AIX-Version-1-figuration-narrative-copie-1086x1536.jpg 1086w, https:\/\/www.eurart.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AIX-Version-1-figuration-narrative-copie-1448x2048.jpg 1448w, https:\/\/www.eurart.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AIX-Version-1-figuration-narrative-copie-scaled.jpg 1810w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Partners<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=&#8221;1056&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; css=&#8221;&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;15px&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column parallax=&#8221;content-moving&#8221; css_animation=&#8221;bounceInDown&#8221;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h1>Narrative Figuration<\/h1>\n<p>The origins of this movement, which emerged in the early 1960s across various European countries, stemmed from the reintroduction into art of the human figure \u2014\u201cforbidden\u201d since the images of the Holocaust\u2014and from a rejection of the abstraction that dominated the artistic scene at the time.<\/p>\n<p>The 1960s brought a flood of colour images. At the time, these were a sign of modernity. Previously, illustrations and television had been black and white. From the use of these images, supported by new tools such as the episcope, Pop Art\u2014and later Narrative Figuration\u2014emerged.<\/p>\n<p>The aesthetics of Pop Art (and of New Realism) place the object or image from popular culture at the center, rather than art itself, which until then had been considered the highest form of culture.<\/p>\n<p>Narrative Figuration, however, continued to maintain a concern for painting as a practice. The subject of the works changed, but not their mode of production. It moved away from a purely observational art and reintroduced temporality into painting in order to tell stories in which the boundaries between reality and imagination fade.<\/p>\n<p>At the first exhibition, <em>Mythologies Quotidiennes<\/em> in 1964 in Paris\u2014considered the founding exhibition of this pictorial movement\u2014around ten of the 34 artists were French; most of the others came from eleven other European countries. The critic G\u00e9rald Gassiot-Talabot presented the idea of a creative subjectivism that he described as a \u201cEuropean characteristic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For the second exhibition, in 1977, artists from 17 of the 28 European countries of the time were invited.<br \/>\nThese were two remarkable examples of artistic and cultural exchange and emulation across Europe.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Dominique Defontaines<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Founding President<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;15px&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css_animation=&#8221;bounceInDown&#8221; css=&#8221;&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h1>Memory and Creation<\/h1>\n<p>Why take on the challenge of hosting a historical collection when our mission is to support contemporary European creation?<br \/>\nIt is an invitation to continuity and dialogue. European artistic and cultural exchanges do not take place solely in the present. The democracy of our European culture also calls for the voices of those who came before us. Their legacy lies in the timelessness of their work, which transcends the interests and even the personal or collective commitment of a particular era. It is the voice of suspended time, of a fiction or a tale from the beyond, bearing hope and faith in the dignified and free human being.<br \/>\nAs contemporary artists, we take on the task of remembrance. How can we build a civilisation upon its own tragedies and weaknesses? To create in spite of everything. To view art through the lens of freedom, authenticity and personal creation\u2014which creates and shares, and which, through continuity, connects us via memory to history and via imagination to the building of the future.<br \/>\nTo cultivate the imagination and reflection of a European culture eager for meaning\u2014is this not the best form of renewable energy?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Marie Kopeck\u00e1 Verhoeven<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Director<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;35px&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eur\u2019Art holds a collection of Narrative Figuration works that brings together some forty pieces representative of the movement, as defined by the two Parisian exhibitions (1964\u20131977). 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DOLE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: 16 May to 24 November 2025 CHAMB\u00c9RY MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: 19 December 2025 to 30 March 2026 ESPACE MIRABEAU, <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1053","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Collection - EUR\u2019ART<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eurart.eu\/en\/collection\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Collection - EUR\u2019ART\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Eur\u2019Art holds a collection of Narrative Figuration works that brings together some forty pieces representative of the movement, as defined by the two Parisian exhibitions (1964\u20131977). 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