Room: James Thierrée's new show
It is called Room - room or space - for its ability to take us elsewhere by the grace of movement, scenery, actors, music. "I wanted to make a show that was an assumed chaos," says the director who is a mime, acrobat, dream vaulter and metaphysical magician. Anyone who has seen his shows, between circus, dance and theater knows how much dazzle they are. Who has not seen anything of James Thierrée has the chance to fill this gap. Room sails, pitches with an architect-conductor (interpreted by him) and a troupe that is racing. The pitch is useless. This kind of highly lively show is lived as an experience.
To discover
- Join La Fabrique Littéraire Madame Figaro, between writing workshops and exclusive meetings with prestigious writers
Room, James Thierrée and the Hanneton company. Until June 1st, at the Théâtre de la Ville
Winnie Mandela Mission: The Spy Story of the Summer
Winnie Mandela Mission by Gilbert Erouart DR
It looks like a John Le Carré novel. Except that the back cover tells us that Mission Winnie Mandela is a story based on real facts. Its author, the writer Gilbert Erouart, who was a diplomat, reveals forbidden truths. Flashback, July 1986: Guy Penne, President Mitterrand's Africa adviser, summons the author. Here he is appointed in South Africa, in the midst of the ANC's struggle against the apartheid regime, as a "liaison officer with the underground black opposition" with the mission of approaching Winnie Mandela, the wife of Nelson Mandela. What follows is a breathless tale that mixes double spies, manipulations, murderous attacks, historical figures, high-flying adventurers... Suspense throughout this book that can be read in one go.
Winnie Mandela mission, when the Elysée was playing the trump card. Gilbert Erouart, Editions Temporis
Xavier Veilhan, solo show at the Perrotin gallery
L'Oiseau n°1, 2022 Alexandra de Cossette
We know his red rhinoceros kiss that tumbled into the hall of the Centre Pompidou, his ultraviolet carriage that caressed in the courtyard of the Palace of Versailles, his faceted sculptures that renewed statuary art. The artist, who represented the France at the 57th Venice Biennale in 2017 with his Studio Venezia, presents today Portrait Mode. The exhibition brings together a set of marquetry alongside blurred sculptures and a new series of sculptures where external objects are invited as part of his daily life: armchair by Vico Magistretti, cello by Yu lin, seat of the workshop designed by Rick Owens... When the famous faceted sculptures give way to more organic sculptures.
Xavier Veilhan Portrait Mode, from June 2 to July 29, 2023, at the Perrotin gallery
La Fabrique du regard launches its festival
Copy of Portails Film directed by Andrés Baron with the young people of the school and leisure center Reims, Paris 17th, LE BAL - La Fabrique du Regard
La Fabrique du regard, the educational platform of the BAL (a place, created in 2010, which deciphers the contemporary image) trains young people by working with neighbourhoods, priority education areas, forgotten territories of the cultural offer. Building on its success, the BAL launches the first edition of La Fabrique du Regard-Le Festival, a week of exhibition and programming around the productions of young people and artists, as an amplifier of their points of view on society and the world. On the menu: Sarah, Come Back, a film about cyberbullying; Metamorphoses, a photographic series of adolescence; See double, publication on the use of selfies... All the potentials of the image.
La Fabrique du Regard-le Festival, Exercising one's gaze, Acting on the world, from May 30 to June 4, on the BAL site
The New Spring of Toulouse
Matali Crasset, the Hazelnut press photo
The spring of Toulouse is getting a makeover. The festival of contemporary creation called Nouveau Printemps, has a revisited format that includes an associate artist from design, cinema, music... This first edition invites Matali Crasset to take a keen and special look at the Saint-Cyprien district. The designer, who develops an approach at the crossroads of the artistic and anthropological and questions the notion of living, explores with thirty artists and civil society actors the links between culture and culture of the living. His credo? "Artists show the way to a singular relationship with the world. A deep relationship, which lasts us a lifetime and helps us stay the course in case of big disturbances, turbulence."
Le Nouveau Printemps, from June 2 to July 2, 2023.
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