{"id":6752,"date":"2018-04-27T14:47:39","date_gmt":"2018-04-27T12:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/volare.volotea.com\/?post_type=inspiracion&p=6752"},"modified":"2018-04-27T14:48:40","modified_gmt":"2018-04-27T12:48:40","slug":"bordeauxs-dark-tradition","status":"publish","type":"inspiracion","link":"https:\/\/volare.volotea.com\/en\/cities\/bordeaux\/bordeauxs-dark-tradition\/","title":{"rendered":"Bordeaux&#8217;s dark tradition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Living far from the bright lights and bustling streets of the capital, and being a huge fan of all forms of art, I&#8217;m always tempted by the major exhibitions in Paris and all over Europe. But I often overlook what&#8217;s going on right here in Bordeaux. I particularly love the current exhibition on Mohlitz, an artist who has spent his life in Bordeaux.<\/p>\n<p>The chance to see an exhibition dedicated to a living artist doesn&#8217;t come along often. But the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.musba-bordeaux.fr\/en\">Mus\u00e9e des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux<\/a> is running a retrospective until the 4<sup>th<\/sup> of June on <a href=\"https:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Philippe_Mohlitz\">Philippe Mohlitz<\/a> (b. 1941) who has made a name for himself in Bordeaux. He is a reserved man who doesn&#8217;t enjoy talking about himself. Instead, he prefers to express himself through his chosen form of artistic expression: engravings. I already knew about his work but I took advantage of the opportunity to dive deeper into his world. &#8220;The looter of dreams,&#8221; as he has been nicknamed for this exhibition, works using a burin. Behind a man who may at first appear gruff, lies a skillful hand and all sorts of phantasmagoria. Mohlitz draws us into a world where the bizarre becomes normal.<\/p>\n<p>A taste for detail<\/p>\n<p>What fascinates me about Philippe Mohlitz is his imagination and his taste for the fantastic, which he depicts through architecture in the style of <a href=\"http:\/\/gallica.bnf.fr\/essentiels\/repere\/piranese-carceri-1761\">Piranesi<\/a>, abundant landscapes, extraordinary machines and strange imaginary characters. His astonishing <em>Lapin sur la ville <\/em>(1979) portrays a skinned rabbit whose body surrounds a city: Bordeaux. The details are so fine that visitors are given a magnifying glass. I also discovered Mohlitz&#8217;s bronze and silver sculptures &#8211; unique works since both their complexity and their details are hard to reproduce.<\/p>\n<p>A tradition of engraving artists in Bordeaux<\/p>\n<p>Philippe Mohlitz isn&#8217;t the only famous engraver in Bordeaux. The famous Spanish artist <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Francisco_Goya\">Francisco de Goya<\/a> (1746-1828), who is best known for his paintings and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Los_caprichos\">Los Caprichos<\/a>, a series of aquatint prints, lived in exile in Bordeaux from 1824. When he died in 1828, he was initially interred in Bordeaux&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bordeaux.fr\/images\/ebx\/fr\/groupePiecesJointes\/26482\/2\/pieceJointeSpec\/72927\/file\/Chartreuse-WEB.pdf\">Chartreuse<\/a> Cemetery. In 1825 he made a series of four lithographs, <a href=\"https:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Les_Taureaux_de_Bordeaux\"><em>The Bulls of Bordeaux<\/em><\/a>. The building that Goya once lived in has retained its link to Spain and now houses the <a href=\"http:\/\/burdeos.cervantes.es\/fr\/default.shtm\">Institut Cervantes de Bordeaux<\/a>. Bordeaux artist <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Odilon_Redon\">Odilon Redon<\/a> (1840-1916) also excelled in this fantastical style of art. I am captivated by his dreamlike, dark <em>Noirs <\/em>with their evocative titles: the smiling spider, swamp flower, and the eye in the balloon. The colorful, enchanting universe that he introduced from the 1890s also fascinates me. And I love poring over the disturbing, enthralling lithographs by Miguel Fraley, who lives in Bordeaux and who I sometimes spot out and about with his beret perched on his head.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Living far from the bright lights and bustling streets of the capital, and being a huge fan of all forms of art, I&#8217;m always tempted by the major exhibitions in Paris and all over Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":6751,"template":"","topics":[2534],"destination":[2835],"class_list":["post-6752","inspiracion","type-inspiracion","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","topics-lifestyle-culture","destination-bordeaux"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Bordeaux&#039;s dark tradition - VOLARE MAGAZINE | VOLOTEA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Living far from the bright lights and bustling streets of the capital, and being a huge fan of all forms of art, I&#039;m always tempted by the major exhibitions...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/volare.volotea.com\/es\/cities\/burdeos\/el-arte-oscuro-una-tradicion-bordelesa\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bordeaux&#039;s dark tradition - 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