With the comic writing, Balzac's House offers a unique exploration of plastics experiences around writing initiated by Balzac.

Pablo Picasso, Jean Cocteau, Christian Dotremont, Alberto Giacometti, Victor Hugo, Asger Jorn, Auguste Rodin, Pierre Alechinsky, Henri Michaux, Pol Bury ... nearly 100 works (paintings, prints, sculptures and drawings) illustrate, along a playful and poetic journey, the attraction of the writer on lesplus great artists of the 19th and 20th century.
The exhibition focuses particularly on international CoBrA movement which grants writing and spontaneity a prominent place, because it expresses the psyche of the individual, and therefore the root causes of creation.

Balzac examines the interaction between artistic thought and gesture. He sprinkles his novels graphics, and manuscripts testify to how the writing, by its very form, stimulates the imagination.
These experiences meet echoed by his contemporaries. The incredible pages of Théophile Bra, fantastic drawings of Victor Hugo, lesgravures humorous Grandville, found an unexpected development a hundred years later with the CoBrA movement whose pillars are Christian Dotremont and Asger Jorn, a writers and a painter, their questioning of art has naturally led to The Human Comedy.

The comic with Scripture Dotremont, Duchamp, Picasso, the famous House of Balzac Balzac and meet the CoBrA movement by dialogue "painters of writing" of the nineteenth century (Théophile Bra, Victor Hugo) with modernity ( Jean Cocteau, Marcel Duchamp, Asger Jorn, Henri Michaux).

"Robe so useful! I work as Balzac, "wrote Christian Dotremont in 1963.

This dress attribute, but the mustache, modern and exciting attraction to the mysteries of the Orient are all calligrapher affinities, involuntary or carefully cultivated. Founder of the CoBrA movement, Dotrmont is part of a complex living compared to Balzac: "Human Comedy everything" does one decipher his brush. Same research on writing and its relation to the text: unexpected use of printing fonts, the importance of hand ... His logograms are inscriptions in ink, and organic living, born of interaction between thought and gesture.

A question extensively studied by Balzac, so attentive to the shaping of ideas, and asks: "Who will explain philosophically the transition from sensation to thought, thought to the verb, the verb to its expression hieroglyphic? "Playful and poetic, the exhibition focuses on these plastics experiences around writing initiated by Balzac, and reflects on the most intimate springs of artistic creation.