Germaine Richier, here is a strong woman whose full-length photography rightly opens the long-awaited retrospective at the Center Pompidou.
Upright in her white blouse, she looks very ladylike, facing a light model who dances naked with the sculptor's geometric marks drawn on the right buttock, her "
architecture of lines"
.
Determined and concentrated, she quite naturally takes her place, Juno among her own sculptures, first classic and becoming, then jagged and expressive, then colorful and symbolic like
The Chessboard
, which came exceptionally from the Tate in London.
Completely unique, with a sensitivity that the monumental does not erase, Germaine Richier (1902-1959) inspired the critics, poets and writers of her time, from Alain Jouffroy to Francis Ponge and Jean Paulhan, from David Sylvester to Pierre Restany.
A flood of compliments and literary interpretations that give it a special aura, more serious than usual in sculpture workshops...
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