2021
De Sphaera Mundi / Galerie Tarasieve Paris
19 mai – 26 juin 2021
Vernissage le samedi 22 mai 2021 de 14h à 20h
The exhibition De Sphaera Mundi was presented virtually at the Beaux-Arts de Paris last February, when
museums closed due to the pandemic. Jean Bedez continues here to explore his favorite themes turning to
myth and cosmology. Ancient cartographies are telescoped with recent images of space. This series is
enriched by a new declension of his reflection on the art of combat. A triptych, freely inspired by a sculpture
by Michelangelo Buonarroti, depicts an epic fight between Hercules and a giant named Cacus, the light and
dark in a landscape of the origins of the world, under a black star. New works in a varied palette (graphite,
natural pigments and charcoal, laser engraving), inspired this time by older art dating back to the Hellenistic
period, revisit famous mythological episodes relating to the childhood of Hercules and the giant Atlas. So
many variations on the theme of the giants, as it was illustrated by the statuary of different periods and as it
appears to us today, damaged by time.