Latest exhibition at Kamel Mennour Gallery, Little Simz new album, gripping literary thriller… Madame Figaro’s Cultural Week

The other’s body

There were pioneers such as Camille Claudel producing in Rodin’s studio The Teaning Man, a twisted and fragile silhouette, far from stereotypes. Germaine Richier later posed for her ogre the aging model, most importantly, the fiery and youthful one A kiss by Rodin. From the 20th century, the male body represented by female artists became an element of the struggle of the sexes or an object of desire. Phallus At Louise Bourgeois, with an odalisque gesture at Camille Henrique, passerby flies photographed by Annette Messenger… Long live women’s veil !
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another’s body until June 3 at the Kamel Mennour gallery in Paris.

In the video, Instant gratificationsculpture by Matthias Pfund

Little Sims, rap free electron

As soon as he takes the stage, Little Sims acts as a catalyst. The sharpness of his narrative rap and the elegance of his gestures caught all eyes at the Bafta ceremony, Britain’s equivalent of the Oscars. In an emotional room, the 29-year-old Nigerian-born London rapper and slammer performed one of his latest tracks. heart on fireaccompanied by a symphony orchestra and legendary guitarist Joan Armatrading, 72 years old.

With each performance, Little Sims (real name Simbi Ajikawo) travels with him through a century of African-American music and social triumphs embodied by the rise of gospel, blues, jazz, soul and hip hop. His narrative rapping has been compared to Kendrick Lamar and J.J. with Cole, both of whom are fans of his work. But his poetic aura is far beyond what we’ve heard in recent decades. After winning the Mercury Prize, Little Simz releases a self-titled album No, thank you and confirms his talent. Through orchestral strings and rap beats, his tracks sound like musical poems leading to the dance floor. “Little Sims’ style is inspiring a whole new scene of English rap and soul music,” singer Cleo Sol tells us. Like him and Gorillaz, Little Sims is most likely part of London’s mysterious Sault collective, an alt-geometry outfit with a soul punk vibe. Best Rap Album 2022, No Thank You comes with a short film that follows Little Sims on his European tour.
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no thank you Forever Living Originals. On June 3, a concert at the “We Love Green” festival, in Bois de Vincennes, Paris.

Attractive and intriguing

Divers entered the wreckage of the crashed plane in the sea. There is no black box and the body of the passenger is missing. What promises to be a thriller (from New Orleans to Ibiza) quickly doubles as a treatise mixing physics and philosophy. 90th author Road thus evoking an unrecognizable object, both unsettling and intriguing. One diver, also a physicist, is a floating man haunted by the lamentation of his young sister, whom he loved with an impossible love. The novel is mainly composed of conversations or meetings between Bobby Wester and his friends. He’s pretty quiet and listens to each other’s ramblings, which range from quantum physics to a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico, passing through God, loneliness, the end of the world… Very melancholy, beautifully written. The author takes us around with such virtuosity that we leave ourselves to this contemplation of the fate of modern man, separated from the spirituality that gave him a place in the universe. Another stumbles into the novel, a young girl in an attic who is visited by fantastical creatures with Beckettian conversations. In May comes Stella Maris, the prologue to this story of this beloved sister, Alicia, a gifted young woman, a student of the famous mathematician Alexander Grothendieck, and who, admitted to a psychiatric institution, reveals an unusual inner world to her therapist. This second opus illuminates (perhaps) the gray areas of the first. What to care about… to lose?
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the passenger by Cormac McCarthy, Editions de l’Olivier, 544 pages, €24.50. Translated by Serge Chauvin.