Copies ? Copier ?, Dole (France), Musée des Beaux-Arts

2025 December 3 - March 29 2026



Group show.
Curators: Sébastien Sévery & Cyril Aubertin.

What is a copy? A fake? Rarely. An imitation? Sometimes. An interpretation? Most often. A copy is a more or less faithful reproduction of an original work of art, made for a purpose that may or may not be explicitly stated. One can copy a work for very different reasons: to learn to paint or sculpt, to imitate a famous artist, to mock a well-known work by appropriating it—or, on the contrary, to pay homage to it. Sometimes, an artist even copies their own works.
The exhibition explores this idea of ​​copying, which has existed since Antiquity and whose popularity has never waned, ranging from reproduction to appropriation.

Musée des Beaux-Arts
85, rue des Arènes
39100 Dole
www.doledujura.fr/musee-des-beaux-arts

Shown in this exhibition

Plaster Cocoon

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