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Exposition : “Exceptional Picture Frames”, Madrid, Museo Thyssen Bornemisza, jusqu’au 21 janvier 2025

In addition to being a decorative object, the frame is an essential part of the presentation of a painting. It helps the viewer direct their gaze to the centre of the composition and focus their attention on it, while separating the physical space in which they are located from the fictitious scene represented by the artist. The museum is presenting an installation of eleven works from the Permanent Collection dating from the 14th to the 17th centuries...

International Conference: “Engaging margins: Framing imagery as embodiment of cognitive processes”

Louvain-la-Neuve, 8-9 October 2020 Salle du Conseil (Collège Érasme), Place Blaise Pascal, 1 – 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve Program The Engaging Margins conference takes place at the Université catholique de Louvain.  Participants are warmly invited to attend the talks either in person or through live streaming. Registration is mandatory. All presentations will be in English or French. The hours of the program are expressed in the local time of Belgium. The program is subject to small changes,...

Call for papers: Questioning the frame in the decorative systems of the modern era

Call for papers: Questioning the frame in the decorative systems of the modern era

International symposium organized by the CHAR (HICSA, University Paris 1 Panthéon – Sorbonne), the Centre François-Georges Pariset (Université Michel de Montaigne – Bordeaux 3) and the GEMCA (Catholic University of Louvain) Version française In its ability to create systems, modern decor emerges as a phenomenon of artistic practice that deserves further analysis. Between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries, decoration reached a particularly high degree of elaboration and complexity through the multiplication of presentation devices in...