8 February - 21 May 2006

Since the 1980s, the work of Felice Varini has involved painting deployed in architectural spaces. For his exhibition at the Musée Bourdelle, Felice Varini produced three new artworks.

In the Great Hall which houses Antoine Bourdelle’s monumental plaster works, his challenge was to capture the totality and integrity of the location without having to touch the sculptures. Here, Felice Varini works with the line. Applied to the various architectural elements, this line travels through space from one point to another, establishing a dialogue with the artworks through its multiple rebounds. The other two pieces also exhibited in the Musée Bourdelle were displayed in the old studios at the centre of the museum, alongside Bourdelle’s archaeological collection and the low reliefs and polychrome portraits which he produced.