The Feast of the Gods, 2004-2012
by chantalpetit
- Printed in France
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Exhibition available in 2 formats for outdoor use and 1 format for indoor use.
Exhibited for the first time as part of Marseille-Provence 2013 at the Chapelle des Pénitents Bleus (La Ciotat), Le festin des dieux is a monumental collection of thirty canvases, which, combined in a score, invent and revisit motifs and figures from the history of art.
“...As in India where art and life are not separated, where everything is of the same order: architecture, temples, men, trees, noises, oneself, smells, day, night, the dead, voices and dreams, the statues that one feeds, cars, colors, animals, cows, snakes or stray dogs, landscapes, the sea, its waves, its boats and the fishermen's net... the sky.... everything... As in an immense crazy ark... I wanted to reconcile and bring together in this cycle of paintings men and gods, figures borrowed from the history of men and the history of art, shamans, saints, animals, archetypes or poets, rich and poor, mad, famous and unknown, contemporary or antediluvian, from all continents and all planets. But also to celebrate "all painting", what is eaten and drunk, objects, landscapes, still lifes, sacrifices, eucharists, feasts, frugality, hunger, feasting and leftovers. A horizontal line stretched across each of the canvases plays like a continuous bass that holds the whole together, and resonates with the air, the white and the silence...”
“The salamander is in the workshop”, chantalpetit (extract), 2008
"When this set was undertaken, the Third Gulf War had begun. This period of disaster and apocalypse underlies The Feast of the Gods. (…) In these paintings, everything, the anecdote, the narration or the symbols, is dissolved, covered, metamorphosed and trapped in the strata, the successive layers of paint, and nourishes what we can call the motif. This hidden presence generates, I hope, emotion, enigmaticity, life."
Interview with chantalpetit by Juliette Laffon (extracts), Malakoff, 2013.
• Outdoors: choose locations where people take a walk and/or where there is a lot of foot traffic: in the centre of the town, near a school, in a public garden or along a walking trail... And if possible, on flat ground!
• Indoors: reception hall, office, waiting room, dining room, meeting room - choose the best-lit space.
CAUTION: If the space where you are displaying the exhibition is slightly damp, we recommend purchasing eight simple frames of the same size (50 x 70 cm) to protect the prints.
The papers we have chosen for printing our exhibitions meet two essential criteria, among others: beautiful colour rendering and durability.
• Exhibitions intended for outdoor display are printed on high-quality 130gsm blue-backed paper.
• For exhibitions intended for indoor display, we have chosen a 550gsm semi-rigid paper to which we attach a simple hanging system. These panels can therefore be hung on a single nail or framed if they are to be displayed in a slightly damp location.
For outdoor displays, our poster formats have been chosen to best suit “election” billboards:
• Large outdoor format (84 x 119 cm) for maximum impact. With one poster per billboard, you will need eight in total.
• Small outdoor format (63 x 93 cm) so that two posters can be placed on the same billboard... meaning you only need to install four billboards.
• Indoor exhibition (50 x 70 cm): 8 prints to hang on 5 linear metres of free wall space.
Full view of the exhibition
chantalpetit
Born in 1951 in Agadir, Chantalpetit spent her childhood between Morocco, Algeria, London and France, where her family settled permanently in 1964.
From 1970 to 1972, she studied at the National School of Decorative Arts and the National School of Fine Arts in Paris.
From 1973 to 1979, while continuing her graphic work, she devoted herself to the theater, joining the GEL troupe (free expression group), an experimental theater company founded and directed by Véronique Petit and Eduardo Manet which performed at the Cartoucherie de Vincennes and in international festivals.
