Past exhibition
Exposition Les villes imaginées

Imaginary Cities

Artist(s) Yona Friedman

A large installation made from 200 aluminium hoops greets visitors as they enter the castle courtyard. Its light and open construction is designed to house images that members of the public can add throughout the exhibition’s duration. In keeping with Friedman’s precepts of delegating and passing on creative responsibilities, this new “museum without a building” will therefore gradually grow and be transformed through everyone’s contributions.

A significant part of the exhibition consists of Yona Friedman’s published texts, especially those written for a general readership. These include many of his comic books (a medium he often employed, for example in his series of manuals produced for UNESCO in the 1970s) as well as texts that reflect the poetic and philosophical side of his work. The exhibition concludes on a universal note with giant wall-drawings of fabulous creatures and the animated African Tales he made for French Television between 1960 and 1963.

To mark the occasion, a video, Yona Friedman, un habitant indiscipliné (Yona Friedman, an Undisciplined Inhabitant) is available during the exhibition. The dvd was produced in 2017 by “le Huit” and CNEAI in conjunction with Rochechouart MoCA.

Each of us walks through our own imaginary city, meeting imaginary people.

Y. Friedman Artiste