Exhibitions, cinema, books… Every two weeks Madame Figaro delivers its cultural selection.
Christine Angot is making her own movie
We knew him as a writer, novelist, autograph advocate, playwright, columnist… Here he is, a filmmaker. Family returns to the motif, incest, which is the basis of his work; Incest Then a week off Impossible love, Journey to the East (2021 Medici Award). It all started with an invitation to a literary salon in Strasbourg, the city of the father who incest his daughter at the age of 13 and then at the age of 26. Angot returns to the scene and rings his mother-in-law’s doorbell. What follows is a scene from the anthology, a rare act of violence, of denial. The images—neither a reality TV reenactment nor a fictional script—are landmark. Added to this are the characters: the mother, the ex-husband, the daughter, the photo of the dead father, which make up… Family. We are aware that 160,000 children are victims of sexual violence in France every year. Angoth succeeded.
FamilyChristine Ango, in theaters March 20, 2024
Drawing with capital letters
Courtesy Galerie Barbier © Catherine Meurisse
Drawing Now is thinking big for its 17th edition. Here punch line This contemporary art fair welcomes around 20,000 visitors every year. Thinking big means breaking out of compartmentalization. This practice was phased out in the 1980s. Today, a whole generation of artists, in the biggest schools, are trained in painting and screen printing. Thinking big also means freeing yourself from space, opening up to large formats, offering a panorama of painting that ranges from watercolor to charcoal through collage. A panel of 73 galleries from fifteen countries nominated five female artists for the 13th prize. Draw now Caroline Corbasson, Stephanie Mancey, Catherine Muris, Marine Pajes, Tatiana Wolska. The winner will be chosen on March 20.
Draw nowMarch 21 to 24 at Carreau du Temple, drawingnowartfair.com
Julie Mehretu at Palazzo Grassi
Courtesy of the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
Two floors of Venice’s Palazzo Grassi are dedicated to the American artist Julie Mehretu, whose works dialogue with her closest friends: Nairi Baghramian, Huma Babba, Tacita Dean, David Hammons, Robin Coste Lewis, Paul Pfeiffer, Jessica Rankin… on the principle of selective connections. Julie Mehretu’s canvases, anchored in abstraction, imbued with both art history and social struggles or revolutionary movements, are created from layer superpositions. Conceived non-chronologically, but as a journey steeped in visual responses and correspondences, the exhibition shows how beyond formal differences the conversation between artists is productive, their essential connection. Together, that’s it.
“Julie Mehretu, together”, from March 17, 2024 to January 6, 2025, palazzograssi.it
Alain Bashung, the album of his life
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Fifteen years after his death, Alain Bashung is far from disappearing from our contrasting cities, and even if he has definitely crossed the Rio Grande, his songs remain immortal encounters where young women dream while riding the train. At night… The album of his lifeallows us to immerse ourselves in the best pieces of this vast mess, going from Bob Dylan to Christophe, with the same surreal poetry where puns dance teasingly over rock sounds. Gabi, oh Gabi, giddy love!, Dare Josephine!, My small business, I lie at night are now classics, but we shouldn’t forget Bashung’s talent for revising other people’s titles Hey Joe! Or Suzanne. An unpublished one dated 1981. Looks like we’re not turned into Junge Manner in the album play injury allows one to grasp the many evolutions of this genius jack-of-all-trades.
Alain Bashung, The album of his lifecompilation on 3 CDs or 2 LPs, Barclay/Universal
A beautiful book about Boboli, the Medici Garden
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“We are the children of our landscape,” author Lawrence Durrell prophesied. Dolores Aloya, whose father, Francesco, gave her “the taste of the land of her ancestors” had a revelation in the summer of 2015 when she discovered Florence’s Boboli Gardens. He felt at home in his place. Nine years later, a journalist who is also a photographer tells the story of this Medici garden, with its wild orchids and centuries-old cypresses, its incredible fountains and its mysterious caves, with supporting pictures… This insightful and sensual response correspondence By Baudelaire. Dolorès Aloia has style and the scent of roses intoxicates us throughout the pages. A wonderful walk, an invitation to spring.
Boboli, Medici ParkDolorès Aloia, Éditions au Pont 9, €25.90, aupont9.com
Source: Le Figaro
