There are billions of trees on earth. They are said to be part of the solution to combating the climate crisis. They surround us, protect us. We love them, we worship them.
Thierry Grillet, the curator of the exhibition will show us that these plant beings which soar vertically towards the sky and which cling to the earth, resemble us.
By his side, Alain Baratonhead gardener of Trianon and the Grand Parc of Versailles, columnist on France Inter and author of the Dictionary of tree lovers (Plon, 2021), Sebastien Gokalp, Chief Curator of Heritage, Director of the National Museum of the History of Immigration – Palace of the Golden Gate, Laurent Tiillon, biodiversity manager of the National Forestry Office (ONF), author of Being a Oak (Actes Sud, 2021), with the exceptional support of the Orsay Museum,
In front of us, from the Middle Ages to today, Installations, paintings, photographs, sculptures, drawings, rare manuscripts, botanical plates,…
80 pieces to disturb us and captivate our young people, to get as close as possible to the truth of the tree, to decipher it and better understand its relationship to man. There is man in the tree, as there is tree in man.
Teaser of the exhibition “You are a tree!”, a France Bleu Normandie calvados and Orne partnership.
The Franciscans website.