The Bossuet Museum in Meaux presents an exhibition juxtaposing its Old Masters with the gestural abstraction of Silvère Jarrosson, from October 10, 2026, to January 31, 2027. Rouge brings together canvases created for the first-floor chapel, all centered around a single color, and the painter intended them to engage in a dialogue with an 18th-century work from the permanent collection.

Silvère Jarrosson began his career as a dancer. A member of the Paris Opera Ballet, he turned to painting after an injury and transposed his dance vocabulary onto the canvas, using acrylics and oils. A master's degree in biology further fuels his interest in morphogenesis, the process by which living forms are born and develop. Having spent time at the Villa Medici, he has exhibited at the Unterlinden Museum and Art Basel, and his paintings have entered the collections of the Mobilier National and the Paris Opera. He teaches at Sciences Po and IESA.

Red is the unifying element. The color of blood and martyrdom, of passion and power, it carries enough contradictory meanings for the museum to use it as an entry point into its own collections, for children as well as seasoned art lovers. At the heart of the exhibition, the painter has installed the Saint Sebastian by Charles Antoine Coypel, who died in 1752, whose body pierced with arrows underscores the symbolic and spiritual weight of the paintings surrounding it.

Jarrosson also works outside the traditional gallery setting. He regularly leads workshops in hospitals and prisons, as he did in 2025 for his monograph at the National Museum of Natural History, and he personally participates in the educational projects developed by the museum. For a place that preserves the memory of a bishop and orator, entrusting its chapel to a former dancer is a bet on what bodies can express without words.

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BOSSUET MUSEUM
From October 10, 2026 to January 31, 2027
5 Place Charles-de-Gaulle, 77100 Meaux
Wed. to Sat. 10 a.m.–12:30 p.m. and 2 p.m.–5 p.m. Sun. 2 p.m.–5 p.m. Closed Mon. and Tue.

Price: €5 - Reduced price: €4 - Free for children under 8 and on the first Sunday of the month

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