Jérôme Sans - Golden Room

Golden Room
Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille

Exhibitions Curator

On the occasion of the new cultural season of Lille3000 entitled Eldorado, the guest curators, Jean-Max Colard and Jérôme Sans, proposed to several artists to invest the "underground" galleries of the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Lille where the permanent collections of the museum, from the Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance are housed and displayed. Like a treasure hunt without rules and order, the artists develop the possible chapters of a history as universal as it is tumultuous, in which their work echoes the collections set with gold. A metaphor for a desire for power, the quest for the treasure here takes the form of a rite of passage, but also of a reversal of values.

What if this Golden Room is never more than a cave for thieves and pillagers? Behind the gold leaf, this accumulation of objects where real gold is mixed with junk and cheap fakes could appear to us as an economic miracle. Like a gigantic still life where everything is but vanity. Like the vestiges and ready ruins of many civilizations which lost themselves in the frenzied search for prosperity. 

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Jérôme Sans - Golden Room, 2019, Eldorado © mentalKLINIK

Exhibition view: Golden Room, 2019, Eldorado © mentalKLINIK

Jérôme Sans - GOLDEN7

:mentalKLINIK, AMAZE-CROSS, Verre coloré réfléchissant soufflé à la main. 208 x 142 x 19 cm. Golden Room, Eldorado, lille3000Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille, France, 2019 © photo: Florian Kleinefenn

Jérôme Sans - Kendell Geers, Masking Tradition, Golden Room, 2019, Eldorado © photo Florian Kleinefenn

Kendell Geers, Masking Tradition, 2019. Acrylic on canvas. Courtesy de l’artiste. Golden Room, Eldorado, lille3000Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille, France, 2019 © photo: Florian Kleinefenn

Jérôme Sans - Kendell Geers, PrayPlayPreyPay, Golden Room, 2019, Eldorado © photo Florian Kleinefenn

Kendell Geers, PrayPlayPreyPay, 2011. Bronze, handcuffs, 16 x 43 x 43 cm. Courtesy of the artist. Golden Room, Eldorado, lille3000Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille, France, 2019 © photo: Florian Kleinefenn

Jérôme Sans - Kendell Geers, T.W BATONS (Spiral), Golden Room, 2019, Eldorado © photo Florian Kleinefenn

Kendell Geers, T.W BATONS (Spiral), 1994. Matraques de police, 195 x 195 cm. Courtesy de l’artiste. Golden Room, Eldorado, lille3000Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille, France, 2019 © photo: Florian Kleinefenn

Jérôme Sans - Laurent Grasso, Studies into the Past, Golden Room, 2019, Eldorado © photo Florian Kleinefenn

Laurent Grasso, Studies into the Past, Huile et feuille d’or sur bois, 65 x 42 x 4 cm / 65 x 134 x 4 cm. Golden Room, Eldorado, lille3000Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille, France, 2019 © photo: Florian Kleinefenn

Jérôme Sans - mentalKLINIK, AMAZE-CROSS, Golden Room, 2019, Eldorado © photo Florian Kleinefenn

Exhibition view: Golden Room, 2019, Eldorado © mentalKLINIK

Jérôme Sans - mentalKLINIK, CHROMATIC MADENESS, Golden Room, 2019, Eldorado © photo Florian Kleinefenn

:mentalKLINIK, CHROMATIC MADNESS 1803/1804, 2018. Papier coton, film polyester multi-couches solaire et dichroïque. Golden Room, Eldorado, lille3000Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille, France, 2019 © photo: Florian Kleinefenn

Jérôme Sans - mentalKLINIK, Golden Room, 2019, Eldorado © mentalKLINIK

Installation view of mentalKLINIK’s works,  exhibition : Golden Room, 2019, Eldorado © mentalKLINIK

Jérôme Sans - mentalKLINIK, MOET, Golden Room, 2019, Eldorado © photo Florian Kleinefenn

:mentalKLINIK, MOËT, 1801; 1802, 2016. Laiton poli ; SLIDER, 1803 ; SLIDER, 1804, 2018. Glass, micro-layered polyester films, anodized aluminium. Golden Room, Eldorado, lille3000Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille, France, 2019 © photo: Florian Kleinefenn

Jérôme Sans - Mircea Cantor, Heven and Hell Simultaneously, Golden Room, 2019, Eldorado © photo Florian Kleinefenn

Mircea Cantor, Heaven and Hell Simultaneously, 2016. Couverture de survie. Dimensions variables ; Epic Fountain, 2012, épingles à nourrices en or 24 carat, 314 x 21 cm. Courtesy de l’artiste. Golden Room, Eldorado, lille3000Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille, France, 2019 © photo: Florian Kleinefenn

Jérôme Sans - Olga de Amaral, Estela, Golden Room, 2019, Eldorado © photo Florian Kleinefenn

Olga de Amaral, Estela 34, 35, 38, 39, 40, 45, 49, 2007. Lin, gesso, acrylique, feuille d’or.  Dimensions variables. Courtesy Galerie Valérie Bach, Bruxelles. Golden Room, Eldorado, lille3000Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille, France, 2019 © photo: Florian Kleinefenn

Jérôme Sans - Thomas Lélu, In Gold We Trust, Golden Room, 2019, Eldorado © photo Florian Kleinefenn

Thomas Lélu, In Gold We Trust, 2019. Gold Save The Queen. Panneau en bois laqué, laque automobile et spray, 195 x 130 cm. Courtesy de l’artiste. Golden Room, Eldorado, lille3000Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille, France, 2019 © photo: Florian Kleinefenn

Exhibition view: Golden Room, 2019, Eldorado © mentalKLINIK

:mentalKLINIK, AMAZE-CROSS, Verre coloré réfléchissant soufflé à la main. 208 x 142 x 19 cm. Golden Room, Eldorado, lille3000Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille, France, 2019 © photo: Florian Kleinefenn

Kendell Geers, Masking Tradition, 2019. Acrylic on canvas. Courtesy de l’artiste. Golden Room, Eldorado, lille3000Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille, France, 2019 © photo: Florian Kleinefenn

Kendell Geers, PrayPlayPreyPay, 2011. Bronze, handcuffs, 16 x 43 x 43 cm. Courtesy of the artist. Golden Room, Eldorado, lille3000Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille, France, 2019 © photo: Florian Kleinefenn

Kendell Geers, T.W BATONS (Spiral), 1994. Matraques de police, 195 x 195 cm. Courtesy de l’artiste. Golden Room, Eldorado, lille3000Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille, France, 2019 © photo: Florian Kleinefenn

Laurent Grasso, Studies into the Past, Huile et feuille d’or sur bois, 65 x 42 x 4 cm / 65 x 134 x 4 cm. Golden Room, Eldorado, lille3000Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille, France, 2019 © photo: Florian Kleinefenn

Exhibition view: Golden Room, 2019, Eldorado © mentalKLINIK

:mentalKLINIK, CHROMATIC MADNESS 1803/1804, 2018. Papier coton, film polyester multi-couches solaire et dichroïque. Golden Room, Eldorado, lille3000Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille, France, 2019 © photo: Florian Kleinefenn

Installation view of mentalKLINIK’s works,  exhibition : Golden Room, 2019, Eldorado © mentalKLINIK

:mentalKLINIK, MOËT, 1801; 1802, 2016. Laiton poli ; SLIDER, 1803 ; SLIDER, 1804, 2018. Glass, micro-layered polyester films, anodized aluminium. Golden Room, Eldorado, lille3000Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille, France, 2019 © photo: Florian Kleinefenn

Mircea Cantor, Heaven and Hell Simultaneously, 2016. Couverture de survie. Dimensions variables ; Epic Fountain, 2012, épingles à nourrices en or 24 carat, 314 x 21 cm. Courtesy de l’artiste. Golden Room, Eldorado, lille3000Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille, France, 2019 © photo: Florian Kleinefenn

Olga de Amaral, Estela 34, 35, 38, 39, 40, 45, 49, 2007. Lin, gesso, acrylique, feuille d’or.  Dimensions variables. Courtesy Galerie Valérie Bach, Bruxelles. Golden Room, Eldorado, lille3000Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille, France, 2019 © photo: Florian Kleinefenn

Thomas Lélu, In Gold We Trust, 2019. Gold Save The Queen. Panneau en bois laqué, laque automobile et spray, 195 x 130 cm. Courtesy de l’artiste. Golden Room, Eldorado, lille3000Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille, France, 2019 © photo: Florian Kleinefenn