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The exhibition De Sphaera Mundi was presented virtually at the Beaux-Arts de Paris last February, when museums closed due to the pandemic. Jean Bedez continues here to explore his favorite themes turning to myth and cosmology. Ancient cartographies are telescoped with recent images of space. This series is enriched by a new declension of his reflection on the art of combat. A triptych, freely inspired by a sculpture by Michelangelo Buonarroti, depicts an epic fight between Hercules and a giant named Cacus, the light and dark in a landscape of the origins of the world, under a black star. New …