The EDF Foundation in Paris, The National Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilizations (MuCEM) and the CNRS have joined forces to create this exhibit, with "pieces" from throughout the Mediterranean Basin.

The exhibit is organized by theme and presented in separate showcases, each with its own text.

The visitor will discover multiple linguistic meanings and painterly aspects of the body in the different countries from around the Mediterranean.

Each "piece" represents either the whole body, or just the heart, hand, foot, nose, ear, back, buttocks, mouth, belly, breasts, skin, bones, brain, head or hair.


This exhibit is a linguistic pleasure with atypical objects, for an entirely exquisite surprise.

Photos :
exhibition poster ©EDF Foundation, hat with flowers by Nada Dohorovicic 2009 Gallery :
Gallery: 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17: Adam and Eve by Fernand Duplan 1970, From 10 to 100 years Germany, second half of 16th Century, Head ornament Lombardia Italy, 13th Century, Pendant ear and tooth-pick, Sardeigna, Italy 19th Century, Earrings Croatia, 18th Century, Ex Voto Italy 19th Century, Pendant "Viana heart", Portugal, 20th Century, Amulet "mano in fica" Sicily, Italy, 19th Century, Lithography The Spanking, France before 1869, Gourd, France end of 18th Century, English pub decoration, Great-Britain, 1950, Brooch amulet with an eye, Ioannina, Greece, second half of 20th Century, Niqab, first half of 20th Century, Pupazza made of bread Italy, 1960, Coll. MuCEM, Paris/Marseille©MuCEM, clichés Christophe Fouin
Photo 4: beauty hairbrush © Bless
Photo5: Angélique Lefèvre, Vanity 2007, © ADAGP
Photo 10: Maurizio Cattelan, "Cuore", 1990, private collection, © Michel Coen
Photo 18: Alba D'Urbano, "Il sarto immortale" (the immortal tailor), 1995 © ADAGP
Exhibition until September 25th, 2011 at EDF Foundation, 6, rue Récamier, 75007 Paris

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