James Thier’s new show Winnie Mandela’s Mission Xavier Weyhan at Perrotin Gallery… Our 5 cultural must-sees

Room: James Tier’s new show

It is called room- room or space – for its ability to take us elsewhere through movement, decor, actors, music. “I wanted to make a show that is supposed to be chaos,” says the director of pantomime, acrobat, dream acrobat and metaphysical magician. Anyone who has seen his shows, between circus, dance and theater, knows how dazzling they are. Anyone who hasn’t seen anything from James Tear is lucky to be able to fill this gap. A room fashion, pitches with an architect-conductor (played by him) and a team that gets carried away. The pitch is useless. This kind of super-live show is lived as an experience.

A room, James Thierrée and the Hanneton Company. Until 1^eh June at the Theater de la Ville

Mission Winnie Mandela summer spy story

It looks like a novel by John Le Carré. Except the back cover tells us so Mission Winnie Mandela is a story based on true events. Its author, the writer Gilbert Herwart, who was a diplomat, reveals forbidden truths to us. Flashback, July 1986: Guy Penn, President Mitterrand’s Africa adviser, calls the author. Here he is assigned to South Africa as part of the ANC’s struggle against the apartheid regime as a “liaison agent with the underground black opposition” with the mission of approaching Nelson Mandela’s wife, Winnie Mandela. What follows is a thrilling story that mixes double spies, manipulation, murderous attacks, historical figures, high-flying adventurers… In this book, suspense that can be read in one sitting.

Mission Winnie Mandela when the Elysée team played the trump card. Gilbert Arrowart, Editions Temporis

Xavier Veilhan, solo exhibition at Perrotin Gallery

We know his kissing red rhinoceros that stormed the center hall of the Pompidou, his ultra-violet carriage that cruised through the courtyard of the Palace of Versailles, his paneling sculptures that revolutionized statuary. The artist who represented France at the 57th Venice Biennale in 2017 with his “Venice” studio presents today. Portrait Fashion. The exhibition brings together a series of Marquette’s works alongside blurred sculptures and a new series of sculptures featuring external objects that are part of his everyday life; the famous veneer sculptures give way to more organic ones.

X:avier Veilhan Fashion PortraitFrom June 2 to July 29, 2023, at the Perrotin Gallery

La Fabrique du regard launches its festival

La Fabrique du regard, BAL’s educational platform (a place created in 2010 that decodes the contemporary image) trains young people by working with neighborhoods, priority educational spaces, forgotten spaces of cultural offer. Thanks to its success, BAL launches the first edition of La Fabrique du Regard – Le Festival, a week of exhibitions and programming around the works of young people and artists as an amplifier of their views on society and the world. world.. In the menu. sarah come back a film about cyberbullying; Metamorphoses, childhood photo series; see doubleposting about the use of selfies… The full potential of the image.

La Fabrique du Regard – Festival, training the gaze, acting on the world, from May 30 to June 4 on the BAL website

New spring in Toulouse

Spring in Toulouse has a new look. The festival of contemporary creation, called Nouveau Printemps, has a revised format that includes an associate artist of design, film, music… This first edition invites Matali Crasset to direct her sharp and distinctive look at Saint-Cyprin. The designer, who develops an approach at the intersection of the artistic and the anthropological and questions the idea of ​​living, explores the connections between culture and the culture of the living with around thirty artists and civil society actors. His faith. “Artists show the world the way of a unique relationship. Deep relationships that sustain us throughout our lives and help us stay on course in the face of major upheaval and turbulence.”

New Spring, from June 2 to July 2, 2023.