April’s Fool: April Gornik Discusses “Figures Du Fou”
27 Apr 03:00 PM
Until 27 Apr, 04:30 PM 1h 30m

April’s Fool: April Gornik Discusses “Figures Du Fou”

The Church

Join artist April Gornik for a richly illustrated virtual walk-through of the Figures du Fou (‘Figures of the Fool’) exhibition, which opened October 16, 2024 at the Louvre Museum and closed on February 5, 2025. Figures of the Fool was a show brilliantly curated by Elisabeth Antoine-König and Pierre-Yves Le Pogam. April will share slides of the exhibition and talk about the curators’ intent and introduce her own insights and ideas about the topic. Along the way, April will invite some thoughts and comments from the audience. At the end, there will be a more formal question and answer period.

Figures of the Fool: From the Middle Ages to the Romantics (click on the link for the exhibition’s website) offered a deep dive into the multiple meanings of fools in books, illustrations of the Bible, sainthood, brothels, at court, on the battlefield and elsewhere, in positions of power, and in positions of poverty. Fools had an extraordinary popularity from the 13th through the 16th centuries, with new notions of the fool reignited in the public imagination during the age of Romanticism as well as the beginning of psychology. Fools include hermits, simpletons, saints, sinners mocking courtly love, party animals, buffoons both royal and common, mad kings, seekers and seers, licentious seducers, jugglers, conjurers, and, not least of all, artists.

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April’s Fool: April Gornik Discusses “Figures Du Fou”

April’s Fool: April Gornik Discusses “Figures Du Fou”
27 Apr 03:00 PM
Until 27 Apr, 04:30 PM 1h 30m

April’s Fool: April Gornik Discusses “Figures Du Fou”

The Church

Join artist April Gornik for a richly illustrated virtual walk-through of the Figures du Fou (‘Figures of the Fool’) exhibition, which opened October 16, 2024 at the Louvre Museum and closed on February 5, 2025. Figures of the Fool was a show brilliantly curated by Elisabeth Antoine-König and Pierre-Yves Le Pogam. April will share slides of the exhibition and talk about the curators’ intent and introduce her own insights and ideas about the topic. Along the way, April will invite some thoughts and comments from the audience. At the end, there will be a more formal question and answer period.

Figures of the Fool: From the Middle Ages to the Romantics (click on the link for the exhibition’s website) offered a deep dive into the multiple meanings of fools in books, illustrations of the Bible, sainthood, brothels, at court, on the battlefield and elsewhere, in positions of power, and in positions of poverty. Fools had an extraordinary popularity from the 13th through the 16th centuries, with new notions of the fool reignited in the public imagination during the age of Romanticism as well as the beginning of psychology. Fools include hermits, simpletons, saints, sinners mocking courtly love, party animals, buffoons both royal and common, mad kings, seekers and seers, licentious seducers, jugglers, conjurers, and, not least of all, artists.

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