Hervé Di Rosa au Mucem. Un air de famille

Description

With total freedom, Hervé Di Rosa has chosen works from the Mucem's collections that appeal to his sensibility, and has created a complementary piece around each of them. Just as a ring is designed for a diamond, so a reliquary is built to highlight something sacred. The artist felt that there was a family resemblance between his works and the popular art objects at the Mucem.

Three sculpted panels by Hervé Di Rosa, made on the high plateaux of Amadoua in the Noun region, stand side by side with a fish-shaped merry-go-round. Here, a ladder made from ox yokes collected in the regions of France by the museum's ethnographers seems to give wings to a resin cow painted by Hervé Di Rosa. Here, a long hunting rifle, once used for waterfowl, is displayed among a myriad of wooden birds carved years ago by Marius Di Rosa, the artist's father.

Curious about everything and driven by a strong desire to travel the world, Hervé Di Rosa has always worked with local craftsmen wherever he has settled. Those who, throughout the world, know how to update their skills with each new generation, to create works for the places where they are born and the people who live there.