Exhibitions, theater, books… Every two weeks Madame Figaro delivers its cultural selection.
Icons at Punta della Dogana. quite an exhibition.
We are indebted to Emma Lavigne, general manager of the Pinault Collection, for some significant exhibitions. He was the one who programmed it about Miriam Kahn (whose feminism has caused a great flow of ink) at the Tokyo Palace before becoming the curator of Prophecy. before the storm in the commodity exchange. Back icons, Venice has a completely different atmosphere that matches the city, its gold, its bells. The curator, playing on the polysemy of the word, expressed the works of the collection (Maurizio Catella, Lucio Fontana, on Cavara, Edith Decint, Agnes Martin, Robert Ryman, Lee Ufa…) between abstraction and figuration. Paintings, videos, sound works, installations, performances take a meditative path, which is crossed by chapels. Here we are talking about the invisible, the transcendental, the holy. Emotion is present in every room. We are conquered.
IconsPunta della Dogana, Venice, until November 26, pinaultcollection.com
A woman’s gaze at Mennour Gallery
Judith Reigle, Male:1969 Oil on canvas / Oil on canvas Judit Reigl, Adagp, Paris, 2023. Photo: Mennour Archives:
A timely little event with three exhibitions dedicated to women of different generations and cultures. Focus on the early work of Gina Payne (1939-1990). Unpublished, exhibited for the first time, his paintings are marked by geometric abstraction and Malevich’s vocabulary. To Judith Reigle we attached the labels of all currents: surrealism, gestural or lyrical abstraction, abstract expressionism… The artist whose birth centenary we are celebrating (1923-2020) is an art current, unclassifiable. His mantra? “ There is no break “. In a group exhibition, another’s body the male body represented by female artists becomes an element of the struggle of the sexes or an object of desire. A phallus in Louise Bourgeois, an odalisque gesture in Camille Henroy, passerby flies photographed by Annette Messenger… Long live the female gaze!
Until June 3, mennour.com
Paris-Starck at the Musée Carnavalet
Paris is metaphysics. this is the title of the exhibition-poem written by Philippe Starck. Who says pataphysics says Alfred Jarry who defines it in his book faustrol how “ the science of what is added to metaphysics “or” the science of imaginative solutions “. So here we are teleported to Stark’s phantasmagorical Paris. The cult designer, a pioneer of his intuitions and a great communicator of the eternal, envisioned a walk between tourist sites (Eiffel Tower, Canal Saint-Martin, Parc de la Villette), powerful places (Le Palais). de l’Elysée) and entertainment venues (Bains Douches nightclub, Caffè Stern). Visitors-passengers embark on a unique journey where beauty meets strangeness.
Paris is metaphysicaluntil August 27, 2023, carnivalet.paris.fr
Sarah Bernhardt’s True Novel
On the centenary of her death, Grace of Monaco and Ava Gardner biographer Elizabeth Guslan offers us a portrait of Sarah Bernhardt. His fascinating story features the divine and his young rival at the Comédie Française, Julia Barthe. Parade scenes of the Second Empire, the Belle Epoque and the Roaring Twenties. Go through the turbulent existence of this holy monster. With a delicate and swirling pen, Elizabeth Guslan plays with the codes of the authentic novel, entertains and softens. At the end of the send it hits.
Scandalous Sarah By Elizabeth Guslan, Archipelago, 258 p, €20
At the Petit Palais, an exhibition by Sarah Bernhardt And the woman created the star , until August 28.
Leonard Martin exhibits at Château des Gondi
Leonard Martin Sea line W: 2021 Oil on canvas 146 x 114 cm Leonard Martin/ADAGP 2023
It is a very beautiful name. cold wood for an association specializing in culture, social and tourism, chaired by Isabelle and Harry Bellet, teacher and journalist, both art historians. While awaiting the renovation of the 19th-century factory, an art venue, their first exhibition takes place outside the walls in the magnificent setting of the former castle of the Earls of Gondy in Joyny. Dedicated to 1991-born Fine Arts and Le Fresno alumnus Leonard Martin, it combines 18 large-format paintings, drawings and a giant inflatable sculpture. Invoking great themes in art and literature, his works span eras and forms. A work on image and representation in space.
Leonard Martin, The Circulation of Sympathy, until May 7, 2023, Château des Gondi (Joigny) leboisfrileux.fr
Source: Le Figaro
