![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Children are welcome to play and think in a special space dedicated to them. Each room of the museum is animated by textual, visual and typographical games – even the façade of the building is taken over. Slowly, the poem liberates itself and becomes an object in the visual and concrete poetry room the algorithm becomes the author urban spaces and advertising slogans turn into pop universes punctuation marks emerge as sculptures and the manuscript of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein comes to life as a photograph. Taking its title from Roland Barthes’ 1973 book of the same name, the show goes on an intimate and visceral journey of our engagement with the written word.įrom the depiction of the pleasure of reading, through a dialogue between masterpieces from the MBAL collection and selected contemporary artists, the exhibition invites a gradual verbal invasion of the image. The Museum of Fine Arts Le Locle (MBAL), is thrilled to present the collective exhibition Le plaisir du texte (The pleasure of text), an exploration of the relationship between images and words in art. ![]()
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