Gainsbourg exhibits at Beaubourg.
At the BPI (public information library), space for study and calm popular with young people.
The establishment is on the teeth.
For the past one or two years, tall Serge has been smelling sulfur again.
Caution was therefore called for when setting up the exhibition.
No excerpt from
Lemon Incest
on the program.
Sébastien Merlet, one of the commissioners, prefers to have fun.
“I find it great that it has become controversial again after thirty years of consensus.
You have to remember that he was very divisive during his lifetime.
Icon of French song, Serge Gainsbourg handled paradoxes and provocation like a virtuoso.
The collection's disheveled eclecticism
The exhibition revolves around his library, showing a quarter of the books kept by the singer in the house on rue de Verneuil, in Paris.
The disheveled eclecticism of the collection is no news to anyone.
By mixing classic literature and pop culture, the man abolished a stuffy hierarchy.
Here, Elizabeth Teissier's 1983 horoscope...
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