After having honored Jean Genet, Jean Giono, or Gustave Flaubert, the MUCEM continues the series of its literary exhibitions by celebrating a hero born in Spain, who has spread worldwide to become a mythic figure: Don Quixote.
The eight loaned works were created by the Outsider Art author Reinhold Metz. Born in Karlsruhe in 1942, Reinhold Metz felt, around the age of thirty, that he was given a mission: to revive the era of illustrated manuscripts, in the manner of medieval monk copyists. He began to calligraph and illuminate Cervantes' Don Quixote in Spanish, German, and French. He dedicated this gigantic work first to UNICEF, then to Jean Dubuffet and Michel Thévoz.
Reinhold Metz works with bright, glossy inks and uses a highly absorbent vat paper as a support. Each book consists of two hundred and seventy manuscript pages, where texts and images intertwine and form an inseparable whole.
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