Exhibition, festival, novel. everything the editorial staff recommends to see and read this week.
The Initiative Journey of Paul Tabouret
Two quotes highlighting the first solo exhibition of artist Paul Taburet, born in 1997: “Life’s a Dream, It’s the Wake That Kills Us” by Virginia Woolf and “We Consider Nonexistent What Can’t Be Seen” by Junichiro Tanizaki. to greet Opera III. Zoo “Day of Heaven and Hell”, the Lafayette Anticipations Foundation turns into domestic architecture charged with ghostly presence; images, ghosts, spirits escape from the pictures. The artist, who questions the relationship between body and object, inanimate and animate, explores new mediums such as sculpture and installation. The process unfolds around two circles, between darkness and light, between birth and death…
On the first floor, the visitor is surprised by a package of anthropomorphic sculptures. Spirit trains, a hybrid of mythology and cartoon. Further bellyA large fertility fountain has dried up and corroded, apparently due to inclement weather. Another atmosphere on the second floor with a light above that evokes the sacred. My dear is a setting, a dining room that resembles a temple of a deity. with his face Fork Melody:A collection of nail sculptures rusted through time… A work that is as much about mythology as it is about Caribbean beliefs, art history and contemporary culture. CL:
“Opera III. A Day of Heaven and Hell Zoo through Sept. 3 at the Lafayette Anticipations Foundation in Paris.
Paris wakes up in classic and pop mode
Soprano Pretty Wende. graffiti
Philosopher, director and music lover Michel Reiser Philosopher, director and music lover Michel Reiser, in his fourth year at the Paris Festival, pursues to share the beauty built on sounds and stones and to make classical music accessible to as many people as possible. Under the sign of musical diversity and unexpected mixes, the festival welcomes a symphony orchestra, opera singers and pop artists for one evening in Olympia. The orchestra Les Frivolités parisiennes opens the ball with a repertoire mainly devoted to the 1930s, with South African soprano Pretty Yende among others. At the Théâtre de l’Œuvre, a setting for the artists of the Symbolist movement, the Hungarian soprano Emyoke Barat, with her distinctive timbre and mastery of coloratura, interprets arias by Mozart and Gounod. The Paris Festival continues with a piano-voice concert on the first floor of the Eiffel Tower, conducted by tenor Cyril Dubois, with oratorios, operettas and cavatinas by Enlightenment composers. The festival returns to Sainte-Chapelle with its closing concert with French-Armenian cellist Astrik Siranosyan. The menu features Jean-Sébastien Bach and original duets in which he sings while accompanying himself on his instrument. PG:
Paris Festival, June 19-27.
In the shadow of a lost adventurer
The Ghost Experience, by Fabrice Humbert, published by Editions Gallimard. Press
The current emergence of the female gaze in literature is an extraordinary adventure. Here it is doubled by another epic, the 19th-century expeditions of Britain’s John Franklin in the Far North. He became known as “the man who ate his shoes” when he told the story of his second expedition; crossing Canada from Hudson’s Bay to the Arctic, walking with his companions under terrible conditions, to search in vain. the meaningless jumble of coasts and islands under the ice, for the famous Northwest Passage that would have made it possible to reach the Pacific Ocean, and which we have been searching for for centuries.
John Franklin – the novel wants to be very close to historical reality – had no charisma, only courage and determination. But young heiress Jane Griffin, with a strong personality, sets her sights on the detective. She will never stop supporting him, even when he gains weight and goes bald. He fights alongside her to convince the British Admiralty to mount a new expedition, this time with two huge boats laden with supplies. But very soon no more news… The novel tells how Jane, after two years of waiting, struggles to find out where her husband is, runs to clairvoyants, then very fashionable to try to convince each other to form a rescue expedition. The more his anxiety grows, the more he dreams and experiences ghostly invasion. From the pain of an adventurous woman. This tragic and funny novel shows the importance of the struggles of the women of the “heroes” in the shadows and with persistence. They carry the world. MTH:
The Ghost Experience, by Fabrice Humbert. Gallimard publications. 272 pages. 20 euros
Source: Le Figaro
