Exhibitions, dances, books… Every two weeks Madame Figaro offers her cultural selection.
Sally Gabor, The Pleasure of Painting
A year later Cherry blossomA new hymn to painting by Damien Hirst at the Fondation Cartier in Paris with artist Sally Gabori, her vast formats and dancing colors. This exhibition is also unique, the first outside of Australia. Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda (her real name), very popular in her country, however, does not have the reputation of Emily Kame-Kngwarei, a leading figure in Aboriginal women’s art. However, at over 80 years old, he produced 2,000 paintings in a decade. Born around 1924, he started painting in 2005. These are the places on his native island, left behind in 1948 and never seen again, that he tirelessly painted sixty years later. The combination of colors, the play of forms, the placement on surfaces, his pictorial expression has nothing to do with the stereotypes of modern Aboriginal painting (dots and lines). An invitation to meditation.
Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori, from July 3 to November 6 at the Fondation Cartier in Paris. foundationcartier.com
Gisellethe eternal ballet at the Garnier
Giselle is the quintessence of romantic ballet, an amalgamation of dance, love and death that makes it universal and timeless, a kind of Grail for dancers. This fabulous ballet (1841) has music by Adolphe Adam, libretto by Théophile Gautier, choreography by Jean Coralli and Jules Perrault. On the bill at the Palais Garnier, stars Dorothe Gilbert and Hugo Marchand, perfect in their technique and acting, carry the corps de ballet with them in their smallest movements. The second act, known as the “white act”, is a luxury. Haloed in their steaming tutus made of over 20 meters of tulle, the ballerinas are in a state of weightlessness. Magical.
giselle Palais Garnier, until July 16.
A second of eternity on the stock exchange
A second of eternity nice title in the form of an oxymoron. It is borrowed from the Belgian artist Marcel Brodthaers, whose film (1971) reveals the artist’s presence in the simple form of his signature. This work celebrates Pinault Collection general manager Emma Lavigne’s exhibition, where the question and experience of time is central. Through the works of 20 artists, including Miriam Kahn, Dominique Gonzalez-Torres, Félix Gonzalez-Torres, Ronnie Horne, Pierre Huguet or Rudolf Stingel, the course explores the ambiguity of time, suspension, escape and explores the themes of absence and embodiment. . And so, as Baudelaire says, “to grasp the infinity of pleasure in a second.”
A second of eternityfrom June 22 at the Bourse de Commerce.
Deauville, my love
To each his own absolute landscape. The painter Van Dongen is Deauville, the blossoming shore, with its light and its sky, echoing his native Holland. His first trip to Normandy dates back to 1903. Therefore, it is quite natural that the city dedicates its first monographic exhibition to the artist. Van Dongen. Deauville fits me like a glove. That is, 60 canvases and about forty works on paper, which tell about this loving complicity. He likes everything. After the war he was made an honorary citizen, he produced the city’s centennial poster in 1961. Today, Les Franciscaines Museum, opened in 2021, brings together an unprecedented series of works.
Van Dongen, Deauville fits me like a glove. July 2 to September 25, Les Franciscaines.
Constantin Brancusi, unpublished portrait
Brancusi, the real one is a rare book. It differs from existing monographs on the Franco-Romanian painter (1876-1957), a major figure in modern sculpture, between figuration and abstraction. Punctuated by archival illustrations, the black and white photographs of the works were taken by Constantin Brancusi himself. Where we see that the sculptor uses photography as an accompanying support for the creation, the artistic process. Brancusi, who pioneered sculptural abstraction, influenced surrealist sculpture as well as the minimalist movement of the 1960s. Confession. “Why write about my sculptures? Why not just show them photos?”
Constantin Brancusi, The Real ThingDoina Lemny, Gourcuff Gradenigo publications.
Source: Le Figaro
