Virginie Despentes' biting novel, Gérard Garouste's sacred painting... Our 5 cultural must-sees

Virginie Despentes, the novel of the literary season

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Virginie Despentes Jean-Francois PAGA/opal.

We say it, even we repeat it: this is the back-to-school event, in France and internationally.

Five years after his

trilogy (2015-2017), the first part of which was adapted for the theater by Thomas Ostermeier, the preventer from turning in circles book

epistolary novel (probably e-mails), between Rebecca, a beautiful 50-year-old actress, hetero and drug addict, and Oscar, a

stalker and alcohol addict.

In this exchange, the voice of Zoé, a young feminist, who keeps a blog, active on social networks, former press officer for Oscar and victim of his harassment in the past, interferes.

The opportunity for Despentes to seize the time.

Me Too, feminism, injunctions made to women, addictions of all kinds.

It is striking, even shattering.

To discover

• Suri Cruise: Hollywood's spoiled little girl, or the story of a child demonized by the media

Dear asshole

, Virginie Despentes, Grasset

Gérard Garouste, capital painter

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, 2020 Daniel Templon Collection.

Gerard Garouste

Three news for Gérard Garouste.

The Center Pompidou is devoting a retrospective to this figurative painter with 120 paintings, mainly large formats, including a place given to installations, sculptures, graphic works.

Echoing this exhibition, the Galerie Les arts Dessins is offering a four-handed work between Gérard Garouste and Édouard Cohen who interpret the biblical text

a 14-meter roll.

And finally, a reissue of Garouste's book written in collaboration with Judith Perrignon, namely

, published in 2009 and sold more than 100,000 copies, which recounts his youth between his father's anti-Semitism, madness, art, religion… An unpublished epilogue closes this new edition.

"Gérard Garouste"

Center Pompidou, September 7 to January 2, 2023.

, Gérard Garouste and Édouard Cohen, Galerie Les arts Dessinés, September 9 to September 25, 2022.

by Gérard Garouste with Judith Perrignon, Near Collection.

Mitch Epstein, 1980s India photographer

Mitch Epstein, who grew up in the smooth and conventional American suburbs of the 1950s and 1960s, discovers India in the 1980s. A world unlike his own, where everything happened on the streets.

He made 8 trips to India, took thousands of photographs (one of which was very cinematographic and signed the poster for the Rencontres d'Arles).

Everything fascinates him: offerings to Shiva, Bollywood actors, strip club hostesses.

Married for a decade to Mira Nair, the director of

(gold camera at Cannes, 1988) he works with her on his films.

During the pandemic, he sorts through his vast body of photographs.

And it is this India, then little photographed, before the era of the selfie, that he reveals to us in the exhibition

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Alongside these colorful, shimmering, sensual photographs, two of Mira Nair's films are screened.

A sacred India.

"Mitch Epstein, In India, 1978-1989", Abbaye de Montmajour, Route de Fontvieille, 13280 Arles.

Until September 25.

Franck Horvat, fashion and reporting

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Frank Horvat Press Office

On the sidelines of the exhibition held at the Jeu de Paume in Tours, the catalog

evokes the first fifteen years of his career, both a reporter in Pakistan, India, Israel, England and photographer of iconic fashion for

,

,

… First historical monograph of his work with more than 250 photographs taken after the war, this book reveals an extraordinary personality.

The authors, including Virginie Chardin, curator of the exhibition and Quentin Bajac, director of the Jeu de Paume, provide an analysis of this photographer of the body and the intimate who died recently, in 2020. Note: September 6 in the Auditorium the Jeu de Paume (free admission by reservation), a meeting between Fiametta Horvat, Frank Horvat's daughter, and Virginie Chardin, a specialist in the history of photography.

"Frank Horvat, 50-65, exhibition of the game of Paume-Tours", Château de Tours until October 17, 2022.

catalog, 288p, 45 euros, editions of Martinière.

“Modern interiors”, the fabulous decade of design

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Lounge chair (TOULON): Jean Burkhalter, Lounge chair known as “bicycle handlebars” Center Pompidou Collection, Paris National Museum of Modern Art - Center for Industrial Creation/All rights reserved

In the wake of "New waves" in 2019 and "Futurissimo: the utopia of Italian design" in 2021, the Center Pompidou presents outside the walls, at the Hôtel des Arts in Toulon "Modern interiors, 1920-1930 ".

The masterpieces of this decade are brought together, such as Robert Mallet-Stevens' office, Charlotte Perriand's studio-bar, Eileen Gray's furniture for her villa E1027 or the objects for Pierre Chareau's Glass House... Not to mention the designers Jean Prouvé, the architects Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret.

More than a hundred objects from around fifty designers are designed by curator Marie-Ange Brayer.

Where we understand the importance of this modern movement which rationalizes the domestic interior.

No more trinkets, ornamentation, decorative artists,

make way for clean lines, comfort and ergonomics.

The design revolution has its source here.

“Modern Interiors (1920-1930)”, Hôtel des Arts, Toulon, until October 30, 2022.