from June 24 to November 5 2017
"Crossed hunt"
Crooked
This summer, the museum hunting and nature takes the air and moved on the lands of Haute-Saône. The castle of Champlitte, belonging to the network of the departmental museums, welcomes in its beautiful salons of the eighteenth century (remembered for the occasion) and its spaces reconstituting with thoroughness the daily life of the Franc-Comtoise campaign, ancient and contemporary rooms from the Museum collections as exceptional loans.
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Of the hunt as royal and seigniorial privilege at the opening of this practice to the revolution then throughout the nineteenth century, the exhibition traces the history of these hunts so diverse, practiced by the lords of Champlitte, but also in all the country. That one husks to entertain or to eat, the hunter knowing hunting, aristocratic or poacher, also acquires an intimate knowledge of the fauna, of which show works and hunting treaties. The salons of the castle invite the visitor to discover what is , in the 17th and 18th centuries at the same time school of war and "pleasure of the fields". The arts and popular traditions invite, they, to a journey in the bourgeois and popular chasses of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, where the notable, the hunting and the poacher are essential figures. Who goes on hunting ... is not necessarily the one we think. All along the visit, animation films and contemporary works initiate a mischievous and poetic dialogue with permanent collections and question the visitor on a practice Formerly widespread, but today raises many debates. Animals mockers or majestic, incongruous traps, creatures on the confines of man and the beast, have slipped into the midst of the peasant furniture and the tools of the craftsmen to create an unexpected track game, a real artistic croop.œurs of Julien Salaud, Françoise Petrovich, Ghyslain Bertholon, Lionel Sabatted, Suzanne Husky, Isabelle Lovez, Benoît Huot, Clara Perreaut, Christian Gonzenbach, Eunji Piji, Pii ...