Saint Laurent, Romeo and Juliet transparencies in the Bastille, Ron Mueck’s giant skulls… Our 5 cultural must-sees

Transparency by Yves Saint Laurent

Soberly titled The transparencies, The exhibition shows how the couturier who famously worked so hard to liberate women in the tuxedo also subverted the codes of female body exposure while maintaining his share of mystery. Through around sixty models, complemented by accessories, drawings, photographs and videos spanning forty years of creation, the exhibition showcases the new woman, both powerful and sensual. With its cuts, drapes, coverings, openings… Saint Laurent redefined the image of a woman in the age of the sexual revolution. The prediction of the person concerned. “I’ve created clothes that fit perfectly into the 21st century.”

Yves Saint Laurent Transparency. From June 24 to November 12, cite-dentelle.fr

Thomas Joly directs Romeo and Juliet in the Bastille

between astromaniathe musical on tour (resuming in the capital next year) and the preparation of four ceremonies for the Paris Olympics in 2024, of which 41-year-old Thomas Jolie is the master of ceremonies. Romeo and Juliet By Gounod. Its setting places the two opera houses, the Bastille and the Garnier, facing each other, like the two families, the Capulets and the Montagues, confronting each other. Staging reveals the common thread of the figure of speech, the oxymoron (which unites opposites). “Hate is this love’s fatal cradle,” says Shakespeare.

Romeo and Julietfrom June 17 to July 15 at the Opéra Bastille

Ron Mueck at the Cartier Foundation

Born in Australia in 1958, the artist is a regular at the Cartier Foundation, which hosted him in 2005 and 2013. Ten years later, he has recaptured the spaces of these sculptures, which are as mysterious as they are realistic. A pile of bleached skulls, massive, reactions the girls the newborn with its monumental umbilical cord… Or the memento mori and hymn to the miracle of birth. Ron Muck plays with scale with small sculptures, the slaughter of an animal and the skin of a child displayed as Christ. Three black dogs follow, huge and menacing. The exhibition ends The man in the boat (2013), variations on our human condition. Ontological!

Ron MueckThrough Nov. 5: cartierfoundation.com

On the bones of the dead Simon Mac Burney’s new show at the Odeon

afters Meeting In 2018, it’s the wonderful return of Simon Mac Burney and Complicité at L’Odéon. The English director adapted the police, environmentalist and feminist fable by Olga Tokarczuk (Polish novelist, Nobel Prize for Literature). It’s about a retired engineer who alternates between translating William Blake and calculating the astrological sky around him until the day he discovers his neighbor’s dead deer bone stuck in his throat… A prelude to the disappearances of others. An exploration of everything that connects living things, realized through the rhythmic collective play of actors and the use of new technologies.

From June 7th to 18th at the Théâtre de l’Odéon

Children of Impressionism at Giverny

The exhibition brings together around one hundred works, including works by Claude Monet, Paul Gauguin, Mary Cassatt and Bert Morisot. Paintings representing baby carriages, cradles, which testify to the artists’ tenderness towards children, but also to fleeting happiness. Infant mortality was rampant in the 1880s. Alfred Sisley lost his son Jacques at the age of five months… The exhibition questions the place of the child during the Third Republic, the way in which great masters such as Pierre Auguste Renoir or Camille Pissarro represented it. families and relatives of what it means to be the daughter or son of an impressionist artist. The unknown intimacy of this painting movement.

Children of Impressionismuntil July 2 at the Musée des impressionnismes Giverny