The Quimper site of the European School of Art of Brittany (EESAB) presents from 15 to 31 December 2022 the results of research carried out in partnership with the Roscoff Biological Station

This collective exhibition presents the results of work carried out over three years involving teachers and students of theEESAB and the Roscoff Biological Station (CNRS-Sorbonne University). The project was led by Benjamin Rivière, artist and teacher at the EESAB-site of Quimper. Supported by the ministry of culture (DRAC Bretagne), the exhibition focuses on the history and evolutions of scientific representations applied to the observation of maritime biodiversity.

EESAB students, associated with the researchers at the Roscoff biological station, walked in the footsteps of illustrious predecessors. Between 1910 and 1912, the artist and naturalist Mathurin Méheut (1882-1958) produces 400 watercolours, 2000 sketches,100 canvases, 200 drawings on the coastal fauna during his stay at the biological station at the invitation of Professor Lacaze-Duthiers for his work The study of the Sea an inventory of local marine flora and fauna. While he was to stay only a few months, Mathurin Méheut finally made a long stay there; he accompanied researchers for two years on beaches, strikes, at sea and patiently and meticulously reproduced the animals and seaweed harvested, kept alive in the station’s tanks and aquariums.

The research project, the study day and the exhibitionCompound Waters" are part of the 150 years of the Roscoff Biological Station.

Practical information :

The exhibition is open from Wednesday to Saturday from 2pm to 7pm until December 31, 2022 on the EESAB site: 8, esplanade François Mitterrand. Free entrance.

Exhibition press kit:

DP-EAUX_COMPOSÉES_DÉC_2022.pdf

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