Des marches de lynx - Nexer

Mural artist from Val d'Oise, Nexer has been painting since the early 2000s. Beginning with work around letters, he develops his line and directs his work towards the figurative: portraits, animal bestiaries or dreamlike decor. He professionalizes in 2015 by responding to various urban embellishment projects. Nexer then begins his first large formats: building facades and monumental works, and spread his art throughout the world. The National Museum of Natural History asked Nexer to create an ephemeral work on the occasion of World Lynx Day, June 11.

The anamorphosis displayed in front of us is a technique that uses distortion of the image to create an optical illusion, allowing the image to be seen properly from a certain point of view, giving the illusion of movement and volume in order to make the subject stand out of the staircase.

Lynx lynx

The Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) is a feline belonging to the Feline subfamily. Lynx are easily recognizable by their face adorned with side whiskers, their pointed ears topped with a tuft of hair, their short tail and their long legs. Among the less noticeable features, lynx have only 28 teeth, instead of the usual 30 teeth in most felines.

It is one of the three large carnivores present in France with the brown bear and the gray wolf. Since its return to our territory from the 1970s onwards, following reintroductions in Switzerland and in the Vosges massif, the Lynx now inhabits the forest massifs of the Vosges, the Jura and the Alps. With less than 150 individuals in France, the lynx population is classified as endangered on the red list of threatened species in France (IUCN) due to its small number, the fragmentation of its populations on the territory, collisions with vehicles and unlawful destruction. The Eurasian Lynx is protected at international level by the Bern Convention and at European level by the “Habitats-Fauna-Flora” Directive. In France, the species benefits from the status of protected species.

To know everything about the lynx and its other feline cousins, come and discover the Felines exhibition at the Gallery of Evolution (Grande Galerie de l’Evolution) -  From March 22nd, 2023 to January 7th, 2024.