The Valmont Foundation in its Venetian setting, the Palazzo Bonvicini
Full screen
Blessing in Disguise
by Valentine and Didier Guillon.
Valmont Foundation
Didier Guillon is an exceptional businessman.
Artist, collector, philanthropist, he put art at the center of his cosmetics company Valmont.
Robert Filliou's assertion: "Art is what makes life more interesting than art" is the red thread of his life.
The man with the Gorilla - he invented a pictogram - which he tattooed on his arm, set up his foundation in Venice, in the Palazzo Bonvicini, along with an artists' residence.
A magnificent Renaissance-style setting, the Palazzo hosts exhibitions based on the theme of storytelling.
"Peter Pan.
The necessity of dreams” is a carte blanche for four artists whose only constraint was to work on moving images.
Result: four installations that revolve around freedom, ambivalence, infinity,
creativity and, of course, the fantasy of escape, embodied in the figure of Peter Pan.
A must-see exhibition on the sidelines of the biennale and even after.
"Peter Pan, the necessity of the dream", Palazzo Bonvicini, Calle Agnello, 2161/A, Venice.
Until February 26, 2023. fondationvalmont.com
King Lear
in Majesty at the Comédie-Française
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Denis Podalydes in
King Lear.
Jean Louis Fernandez
This is one of the events of the theatrical season.
The poster is a promising addition.
The play, a masterpiece: Shakespeare's
King Lear
, works on old age, wealth, inheritance, power.
The cult director, Thomas Ostermeier, co-director of the Schaubühne in Berlin, has already worked at the Comédie-Française with a
highly acclaimed
Twelfth Night .
The title role: played by the wonderful Denis Podalydès.
The place: the gold rooms of the Salle Richelieu.
The troupe, priceless national treasure with, in the cast: Jennifer Decker, Marina Hands, Christophe Montenez.
Unmissable.
Le Roi Lear
, directed by Thomas Ostermeier, until February 26, 2023, comedie-francaise.fr
Marlene Monteiro Freitas, guest of the Fall Festival
Full screen
Marlene Monteiro Freitas,
Guintche (live version).
Laurent Paille
As part of the Portrait of the Autumn Festival, the Cape Verdean choreographer Marlene Monteiro Freitas presents for the first time a set of pieces, performances and installations.
"There will be shock and the release of energy, a new and 'hybrid' material", promises the protean artist.
To inaugurate this Freitas season, a whimsical and sulfurous solo
Guintche (live version
).
The performer and director is multiple there like the Cape Verdean Creole word which designates “a bird, the name of a prostitute or, who knows, an attitude”.
Guintche
is a kaleidoscope of sensations where the dancer Marlene Monteiro Freitas resembles a boxer and a witch.
Marlene Monteiro Freitas,
Guintche (live version)
, live shows, from September 29 to October 1, 2022, centrepompidou.fr
Edvard Munch at the Musée d'Orsay
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Edvard Munch,
Young Girls on the Bridge,
1927 Oslo, Norway, Munchmuseet CC BY 4.0.
Munch Museum
The Musée d'Orsay, in collaboration with the Munch museum in Oslo, is devoting an exhibition to the Norwegian painter Edvard Munch (1863-1944) whose work is not limited to his most famous painting:
The Scream.
Sixty years of creation are presented, a hundred works: paintings, drawings, prints, engraved blocks... which reflect the complexity of his work and the diversity of his practice.
Note the many, even obsessive variations of the same motif.
The notion of cycle (life, death, rebirth) being important in the thought of Munch for whom humanity and nature are intrinsically linked.
Its iconography is inspired by the philosophies of Friedrich Nietzsche and Henri Bergson.
A powerfully symbolist work.
"Edvard Munch, a poem of life, love and death"
,
until January 22, 2023, musee-orsay.fr
Jane Birkin, etc.
Close-up on Jane Birkin this fall.
Here it is celebrated with a complete collection of his albums from 1969 to today (Universal Music), his discography analyzed by Baptiste Vignol in a book (
Gründ
) and an unpublished family photo album which retraces the odyssey of the mythical couple Birkin- Gainsbourg.
Behind the camera, Andrew Birkin, Jane's big brother (one year separates them), screenwriter and director who documents his little sister's childhood, the Gainsbourg decade of which he was close until their separation in 1980. 900 mostly unpublished photos parade with Kate, Charlotte and the pop years, Stanley Kubrick, the Beatles.
The preface is signed by Jane Birkin and the afterword by Charlotte Gainsbourg.
A family story.
Serge Gainsbourg & Jane Birkin, the intimate family album,
Albin Michel editions, 224 pages, 39 euros.