Christine Angot makes her cinema
We knew her as a writer, author of novels, advocate of self-writing, playwright, columnist… Here she is, a filmmaker.
A family
returns to the motif, incest, which is the heart of its work:
Incest
then
A week of vacation,
An impossible love
,
The Journey to the East
(Medici Prize 2021).
It all started with an invitation to a literary salon in Strasbourg, the city of the father who subjected his daughter to incest at 13 and then at 26.
Angot returns to the scene and rings his mother-in-law's doorbell.
What follows is an anthology scene, of rare violence, about denial.
The images, neither a reality TV reconstruction nor a fictional scenario, are landmarks.
Added to this are the characters, the mother, the ex-husband, the daughter, a photo of the deceased father who make up…
A family
.
We are aware that 160,000 children are victims of sexual violence each year in France.
Angot succeeded.
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A Family
, Christine Angot, in theaters March 20, 2024
Drawing in capital letters
Catherine Meurisse,
Le Passage
, 40 x 50 cm, 2023, graphite, watercolor and gouache on paper.
Courtesy Galerie Barbier © Catherine Meurisse
Drawing Now is thinking big for its 17th edition.
This is the
punchline
of this Contemporary Drawing Fair which welcomes around 20,000 visitors each year.
Thinking big means breaking out of compartmentalization.
This practice was relegated in the 1980s. Today, a whole generation of artists, in the biggest schools, are training in drawing and screen printing.
Thinking big also means freeing yourself from space, opening up to large formats, offering a panorama of drawing that ranges from watercolor to charcoal through collage.
Seventy-three galleries from fifteen countries were selected by the committee, which nominated five women artists for the 13th
Drawing Now
prize : Caroline Corbasson, Stéphanie Mansy, Catherine Meurisse, Marine Pagès, Tatiana Wolska.
The winner will be chosen on March 20.
Drawing Now
, from March 21 to 24 at Carreau du Temple, drawingnowartfair.com
Julie Mehretu at Palazzo Grassi
Julie Mehretu,
Among the Multitude XIII
, 2021-2022 Private Collection Ph: Tom Powel Imaging Courtesy of the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
The two floors of the Palazzo Grassi in Venice are dedicated to the American artist Julie Mehretu whose works dialogue with those of her closest friends: Nairi Bagramian, Huma Bhabba, Tacita Dean, David Hammons, Robin Coste Lewis, Paul Pfeiffer, Jessica Rankin …according to a principle of elective affinities.
Anchored in abstraction, irrigated as much by the history of art as by social struggles or revolutionary movements, Julie Mehretu's paintings are made of superpositions of layers.
The exhibition, conceived in a non-chronological manner, but as a journey punctuated by visual echoes and correspondences, shows how, beyond formal differences, the conversation between artists is fruitful, their essential link.
Together, that's all !
“Julie Mehretu, together”, from March 17, 2024 to January 6, 2025, palazzograssi.it
Alain Bashung, the album of his life
The Album of his life
by Alain Bashung Press service
Fifteen years after his death, Alain Bashung is far from having disappeared from our cities of contrast and even if he has definitely crossed the Rio Grande, his songs remain immortal meetings where young women dream while taking trains. night…
The Album of his life
, allows us to immerse ourselves in the best pieces of this immense muddler, going from Bob Dylan to Christophe with the same surrealist poetry where the puns dance with derision on rock sounds.
Gaby oh Gaby, Vertigos of love
,
Dare Joséphine
,
My little business
,
La nuit je mens,
are now classics, but we must not forget Bashung's talent in revisiting the titles of others like
Hey Joe
or
Suzanne
.
An unreleased release dating from 1981,
On n'a pas l'air pas
transformed into
Junge Männer
on the album,
Play Blessure,
allows us to grasp the multiple evolutions of this jack-of-all-trades genius.
Alain Bashung,
The Album of his life
, compilation in 3 CDs or 2 LPs, Barclay/Universal
A beautiful book on Boboli, the Medici garden
Boboli, the Medici garden
of Dolorès Aloia Press service
“We are the children of our landscape,” prophesied the writer Lawrence Durrell.
Dolorès Aloia, whose father, Francesco, passed on to her “the taste for the land of her ancestors” had a revelation in the summer of 2015 when she discovered the Boboli garden in Florence.
She felt in her place, at home.
Nine years later, the journalist, who is also a photographer, tells, with supporting images, the story of this Medici garden with its wild orchids and its century-old cypresses, its incredible fountains and its mysterious caves... This erudite and sensual echoes
Baudelaire's
Correspondences .
Dolorès Aloia has style and the smell of roses intoxicates us throughout the pages.
A wonderful stroll, an invitation to spring.
Boboli, the Medici Garden
, Dolorès Aloia, Éditions au Pont 9, 25.90 euros, aupont9.com