SIGILLUM BESTIARUM - Romain Buffetrille
Overview
Intro
From September 17 to December 31, 2026, Romain Buffetrille’s oil paintings will take over the Musée d’Estavayer-le-Lac and its frogs.
From September 17 to December 31, 2026, Romain Buffetrille’s oil paintings will take over the Musée d’Estavayer-le-Lac and its frogs.
Much like medieval bestiaries, Romain Buffetrille’s creatures blend the real and the fantastical in a series of allegorical visions. They unfold throughout the Musée d’Estavayer-le-Lac and its frogs across three temporalities: the era of ancient myths, where animals embody archetypal and symbolic figures; the present of an anthropized world, marked by the domestication, classification, and exploitation of living beings; and a post-collapse future, marked by the emergence of spectral fauna, emblematic of a mythology yet to come and a reinvented primordial garden.
Romain Buffetrille’s visual language flows seamlessly between figuration and symbolism. Hybrid animal forms, demiurgic titans, and headless human figures emerge from sibylline scenes, like so many apparitions. It is not so much a matter of naturalistic figuration as it is an exploration of the symbolic power of the image. As an iconographic artist, Romain Buffetrille creates mystery here and, through painting, establishes a poetic relationship with reality, giving form to a liminal imagination at the crossroads of nature and the supernatural, the visible and the invisible.
ROMAIN BUFFETRILLE (*1999) is a painter originally from Donatyre, living and working in Fribourg. A graduate of the Académie de Meuron (Neuchâtel), he previously earned a CFC (Federal Certificate of Proficiency) in librarianship, followed by a high school diploma from Eikon (Fribourg). He has devoted himself fully to painting since 2023, developing a practice that led him, notably, to exhibit at Galerie C in Neuchâtel alongside Léopold Rabus in 2025. As the recipient of the State of Fribourg’s artist-in-residence fellowship at the Cité internationale des arts in Paris, he will be in residence there from September 2026 to February 2027.
OPENING RECEPTIONAGE (with the artist in attendance) on Thursday, September 17, 2026, at 6:30 p.m.
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Musée d'Estavayer-le-Lac et ses grenouilles
Rue du Musée 13 1470 Estavayer-le-Lac +41 26 664 80 65 musee@estavayer.ch |
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Individual Admission Prices
Adults
CHF 5.00
Adults, reduced rate
CHF 4.00
Children ages 6 and up, students
CHF 3.00
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Event dates
- 17 September 2026
- 18 September 2026
- 19 September 2026
- 20 September 2026
- 22 September 2026
- 23 September 2026
- 24 September 2026
- 25 September 2026
- 26 September 2026
- 27 September 2026
- 29 September 2026
- 30 September 2026
- 01 October 2026
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- 03 October 2026
- 04 October 2026
- 06 October 2026
- 07 October 2026
- 08 October 2026
- 09 October 2026
- 10 October 2026
- 11 October 2026
- 13 October 2026
- 14 October 2026
- 15 October 2026
- 16 October 2026
- 17 October 2026
- 18 October 2026
- 20 October 2026
- 21 October 2026
- 22 October 2026
- 23 October 2026
- 24 October 2026
- 25 October 2026
- 27 October 2026
- 28 October 2026
- 29 October 2026
- 30 October 2026
- 31 October 2026
- 01 November 2026
- 03 November 2026
- 04 November 2026
- 05 November 2026
- 06 November 2026
- 07 November 2026
- 08 November 2026
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- 11 November 2026
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- 24 November 2026
- 25 November 2026
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- 29 November 2026
- 01 December 2026
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- 06 December 2026
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- 17 December 2026
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- 26 December 2026
- 27 December 2026
- 29 December 2026
- 30 December 2026
- 31 December 2026
Discover the surroundings
Musée d’Estavayer-le-Lac et ses grenouilles
Rue du Musée 13
1470
Estavayer-le-Lac
Switzerland
Phone
+41 (0)26 664 80 65
musee@estavayer.ch
museedesgrenouilles.ch