Fables. Marc Chagall and Carol Wainio

Fables. Marc Chagall and Carol Wainio exhibiting at the Musée des beaux-arts de Sherbrooke, QC

Coming out of the oral tradition, the earliest fables documented to date appeared in the eighth century BC. Following Hesiod and Phaedra, Horace and Aesop, Jean de La Fontaine (France, 1621-1695) consecrated the genre in the seventeenth century. Fables were popularized in an educational setting, showing children human quirks and weaknesses and thereby teaching them the values they should cultivate in order to lead a good life. These stories have lived on across eras and transcended borders, enabling them still today to address contemporary issues. The present exhibition proposes to place side by side the work of two artists, a century apart, who have taken up this ancient body of work: Marc Chagall and Carol Wainio.
Curator: Suzanne Pressé