Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts

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Conférence humoristique: Réinventer Davel

Humorous conference by Matthias Urban, actor and director, inspired by the painting by Charles Gleyre, The Execution of Major Davel (1850). More than 300 years after the death of Major Davel, a key figure in Vaudois history, Matthias Urban returns to a mysterious and little-known episode: why did an individual lock himself in the Palais de Rumine one night in the summer of 1980, before setting fire to the painting? Was he an activist ahead of his time? After a meticulous investigation and a good dose of imagination, a documentary will reveal the whole truth! The public is then invited to a drawing workshop to reconstruct the missing part of the painting; a participatory act of collective creation and restoration! By registration (limited places) All audiences