taking art out of the museum.

The Outings Project by artist and filmmaker Julien de Casabianca is about freeing anonymous museum figures from their museum confines. He reproduces the work on the public street. People may not know the painting, or the artist but by placing these figures outside the museum somehow more people can view the works.

Originally, Casabianca let one Ingres’ unknown figures free from the Lourve. Since then, people in at least 18 cities have posted similar anonymous characters from master artworks. Casabianca says the global participation was completely unplanned and unexpected but he’s embraced the idea wholeheartedly.

Discussing the project, Casabianca states “we don’t want to tell you something that you don’t know, and we don’t want people to feel ignorant. You have just to feel that [the artwork] is ancient and shifted, you have just to be touched by the emotion, by the esthetic, by the art.”

Pretty awesome idea hey.

You can check it out here:

http://www.outings-project.org/