Curtius Circus 3

The museum’s collections are being revisited by students from the 1st year of the Advertising Masters at the ESAL 

 (as part of the J-M Sarlet classes)
 

This third edition of Curtius Circus confirms the importance of a collaborative approach between the first-year students in the Advertising Masters at the ESAL (Royal Academy of Fine Arts) and the Entertainment Department of the Museums of the City of Liège.
 

The project is again based on a selection of photos that have been inspired by pieces from the Grand Curtius' collections. Through photo montages, digital retouching or staging, the students revisited the semiotics of museum art and artefacts. If the principle has not changed, the ideas are still abundant, renewing the discourse around the images with each edition.  
 

As part of Curtius Circus III, innocent Disney princesses become Amazon women that are armed to the teeth; the ivory panels of the medieval diptychs take the form of the filled biscuits of our childhood and we suffer from pareidolia, a disorder that consists of associating a human or animal face with a form or object. 
 

Using an inventive, often provocative and, at times, even impertinent eye, these young artists draw on the objects of the past and associate them with references to today's society. In this way, the bourgeois courtiers of Léonard Defrance's "Trictrac players" become the flag bearers of Gleeden, the first website designed for extra-marital encounters. 
 

In spring 2016, the new La Boverie museum is opening its doors to the public. Welcoming the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, it is in this new playground that the students of tomorrow will discover the collection's masterpieces.  

Edith Schurgers
Entertainment Service for the Museums of the City of Liège