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Elephantart – Elephants' Memories
Culture · Thursday, December 3 · 14:00 · Nantes
École des Beaux-Arts de Nantes Saint-Nazaire, 2 Allée Frida Kahlo, Nantes
Free
Paradise Centre for Contemporary Art, the École des beaux-arts Nantes Saint-Nazaire and the RDV gallery are pleased to invite you to the collective exhibition Elephantart – Elephants’ Memories, staged across three Nantes galleries, from November 14 to December 19, 2026 (dates and times vary by venue). Forty-six years ago, Jean-Paul Sidolle, leaving the Musée des beaux-arts de Tours, meets the unblinking gaze of Fritz the elephant, a taxidied elephant. Deeply moved to learn soon after of the threat facing the species, he undertakes to buy back one by one all the elephant-objects he…
