The Wings of Mars

In 2008, the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Nice decided to dynamically bring the fine arts closer to everyday life and in particular to invite contemporary art to revisit the works of its collection.

As part of the program "Contemporary views on the collection" and on the occasion of "Mars at the museum: Otherwise" that Véronique Bigo, develops for a second part the theme of the wing and the sword represented in several paintings in the museum.

The Wings of Mars

Contemporary views on the collection, “The Wings of Mars” tour, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nice - March the 1st to the 31st, 2009

Let yourself be won over by the play of shapes and colors. You are on a journey of sensuality. Never objective, the beacons that Véronique Bigo disseminates in the museum are, as well, arrows revealing the sensitive.
Efficient by the certainty of their layout, irritating by their frames and their play of bands in bright colors, they question paintings from the permanent collections or, more exactly, they ask you about variations in painting.
They underline its nature, a material made of colors and shapes whose meaning is above all determined by the emotions and feelings it generates.
It is in this way that art is continually reinvented, not only by those who make it, but also by those who taste it: Through a recurring practice of borrowing, Véronique Bigo's work underlines the movement of perception. that we have reality, to be honest, its instability.
The wings, claws or helmets that she represents by her play of distorted reflections or false quotes, show how the subjectivity of representation is linked to a detailed perception of reality, both on the part of the artist and the spectator, this that no human science can render.
As a spectator, your perception of the altarpiece of Saint Margaret has very little in common with that of the people who witnessed its creation in the 15th century, and yet the transcendence of this work remains, always carried by the same chromatic and figurative composition. Your empathy with the artwork, whether modern or ancient, fuels the art movement.
Bigo’s itinerary
Finally, visitor, do not ignore a imperative rule of the game to which Véronique Bigo invites you: apart from any academic reason, you will be unfair, you will be sectarian, because you will only look at the paintings with which Véronique Bigo has engaged in a conversation.
Once again, in her work, the whole of the work exceeds the sum of its parts. The course she has drawn constitutes in itself an artistic creation. It forms a perfectly coherent and ephemeral whole whose elements resonate with each other to generate, during an exhibition, their own aura. So, let yourself be invaded by this installation.