Eldorado: a search “Eldorado” is first of all an adventure, the search of a treasure, that of imagination: “A museum as ideal dwelling place. An undetermined space devoted to the imaginary through an interactive relationship between architecture, interior spaces and a historical site, and which plays out the functionalities, uses and conventions that govern the representation of art, its definitions, its observation and certainly the entirety of its experiences. The exhibition stirs up the works, and therein lies its true value“ (Jean-Louis Froment, for the exhibition catalogue “Eldorado”).
“Eldorado” is supported by all these - artists, art lovers, key figures from the cultural and political scene - who, for the last fifteen years, have worked towards the museum project in Luxembourg, seeing the light of day. The exhibition invites the public to discover the venue “from the cellar to the attic” where around sixty artists have contributed, and to participate, each in an individual way, in this creation and in this development of a place of dreams and desires that Mudam represents.
Eldorado: a poetic distance The exhibition covers many facets of expression which artists are currently using: photography, painting, drawing, video, new media, fashion, design, graphics, sound, architecture, sculpture. It shows the relationships that the different techniques have with each other and displays their coherence and how they complement each other in relation to themes that the artists transpose in their contemporary works. Mudam keeps a close eye on changes in these practices as part of its duty. Art is the expression of a poetic distance from the world, going beyond the tools which are used - the question of technique no longer matters: “It is through that same polyphony where all artistic sonorities simultaneously merge the moment they are brought forth that these objects present the inaugural history of the museum“(Jean-Louis Froment, for the exhibition catalogue “Eldorado”).
