After having honored Jean Genet, Jean Giono or Gustave Flaubert, the Mucem continues its series of literary exhibitions by celebrating a hero born in Spain, who has spread worldwide to the point of becoming a mythical figure: Don Quixote.

The eight works on loan were created by Art Brut author Reinhold Metz. Born in Karlsruhe in 1942, Reinhold Metz felt around the age of thirty that he was given a mission: to revive the age of illustrated manuscripts, in the manner of medieval copying monks. He began to calligraphy and illuminate Cervantes' Don Quixote in Spanish, German, and French. He first dedicated this massive work to UNICEF, then to Jean Dubuffet and Michel Thévoz.

Reinhold Metz works with bright, vivid inks and uses a highly absorbent vellum paper as a support. Each book consists of two hundred seventy handwritten pages, where text and images intertwine and form an indivisible whole.

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