Friends and studio neighbors, Paul Klee and Hans Reichel have never been brought together in an exhibition, despite the obvious resonance of their works. This encounter finally comes to life in the first part of the exhibition, which is treated as an intimate study. Attracted by the metamorphoses of nature, Klee and Reichel delicately captured on paper the living world in which fish, birds and stylized plants move freely. Their universe echoes the eminently poetic fossil collections of the Musée de Lodève. The fossils on display move us with the fragility of the instant they have preserved for millions of years: a fallen leaf, a drop of rain… a furtive moment that has crossed the ages, frozen in stone.

Discrit and Finel’s vision

In Julien Discrit and Anne-Charlotte Finel’s artistic approaches, there is a porosity between the real and fictional worlds, between science and imagination. Their works seek to reveal the invisible, lurking in the shadows or buried in the strata of time and memory. For these artists, the manifestations of nature are hijacked to create a dreamlike narrative.