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Mixed portrait by Alixe Fu: a 19th-century bourgeois canvas revived by contemporary faces
Now showing

Anti-Rétro — Portraits métissés

Alixe Fu

Artist
Alixe Fu
Dates
Permanent collection
Type
Permanent collection
Admission
Included in every ticket

Alixe Fu does not restore: he intervenes. Old canvases, damaged and forgotten, become the support for a graft. The gesture of repair turns into a gesture of creation — and the ancient portrait suddenly looks back at our own era.

The concept he calls "Anti-Retro" refuses nostalgia. It is not about going back, but about forcing two timescales to cohabit on a single surface.

In the exhibition
  • Portrait of Henri IV taken up by Alixe Fu, its background opened to contemporary colour
  • “Haleurs ramenant un Bateau”, a 19th-century canvas revived in 2019
  • “Le Yangzi Jiang” by Alixe Fu, a face-landscape in green and blue
  • “La Cité impériale” by Alixe Fu, a portrait in red and pink