25 years of Paris Photo, the return of Starmania, the colors of David Hockney… Our 5 cultural highlights

Photo of Paris at the Grand Palais Ephemeral

The first international fair dedicated to the photographic environment will take place from November 10 to 13. For his 25th birthday, he chose actress Rosie de Palma as guest of honor, who chose 25 works. A platform for discovery and exchange, it has 134 galleries from 29 countries, including 38 solo and duo exhibitions by Marina Abramović in Orlan. The commitment to women photographers continues with support Women on the move, an initiative of Kering, and promotes the visibility of women artists and their contributions to the history of photography. This 5^e The course edition is diverse both historically and geographically. 34 publishers will also offer 300 artist signatures. For visitors who aren’t all collectors, they can walk away with a book signed by the photographer.

Paris photographyNovember 10 to 13 at the Grand Palais Éphémère, grandpalais.fr

astromaniarevival at the Seine Musicale

Forty years later, Michel Berger and Luc Plamondon’s rock opera, the interplanetary hit cult musical, returns. This improved and updated version is directed by Thomas Joly, the future artistic director of the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2024 Olympic Games. Next to him, choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, designer Nicolas Ghesquière, musician Victor Le Masne. Everyone pounds Starmania 2022 it is neither a reconstruction nor a tribute. It includes timeless hits that address the topics of politics, power, terrorism, ecology, media, homosexuality, transgender sexuality, artificial intelligence, celebrity obsession, love, death. astromania is a visionary work about the violence of life.

astromania, From November 8, 2022 at La Seine Musicale and on tour. laseinemusicale.com:

David Hockney at the Lelong Gallery

Five international galleries have joined forces to present the exhibition 20 flowers and some larger pictures. These works were created by David Hockney in 2021, from pictures taken on an iPad a year earlier at his home in Normandy. Five landscapes, 20 still lifes of flowers, a room with gladioli… Inspired by the observation of everyday life, these paintings capture transience, capture the moment. We find there this space art, specific to David Hockney, who constructs different planes of panoramic vision. The Normandy countryside is dressed in cheerful colors and abstract shapes as the seasons pass. “I think that’s what we need today. fresh images of this world, which is so beautiful,” says the artist. Hymn to renewal and beauty.

David Hockney. 20 flowers and some larger picturesuntil December 22, 2022, galerie-lelong.com

Ludivine Sannier, alone on the stage of the Municipal Theater

Ludivine Sagnier is rarely in the theater. after New Roman by Christophe Honoré, in which she played Nathalie Sarrot, here she is alone on stage for the first time, carrying the autobiographical words of Vanessa Springora. “It is one of the foundational texts of the era Me too In France. Vanessa Springora is a whistleblower. Not to warn about predators – we know they exist – but about the complexity of certain concepts. What is the value of the consent of a 14-year-old girl who is madly in love with a 50-year-old man? And the consent of those around you? She turned her story into a collective questioning of society,” says the actress. In turn, with director Sebastian Davis, he turned this literary object into a one-and-a-half-hour show, part of his commitment. Revolting, exciting, essential.

Consent By Vanessa Springora, directed by Sebastien Davies. November 21 to 30 at Théâtre de la Ville/Espace Cardin at theatredelaville-paris.com

Commemoration of Proust at Le Swann Literary Hotel

When your name is “Literary Hotel Le Swann”., we should remember Proust, especially when we celebrate the centenary of the writer’s death on November 18. The show is held in closed halls A hundred years after Marcel Proust. Five important events. On November 15, at 19:00, the presentation of Chloe Dabert’s book will take place. We’ll leave it there with Raphael Enthoven, the most Proustian of our philosophers; At 16:00, at 20:00, an exhibition about the exhibition Proust, labor factory, organized at BNF, in association with curators; From 18 to 19, opening of the exhibition of creative ties; On the 22nd, at 19:00, an exclusive radio evening Hand stitched Marcel Proust has been broadcast French culture this summer Tuesday the 29th at 19:00, the launch of the new edition Research published in Pocket Book. Notice to all Proustians.

November 2022, one hundred years after Marcel Proust The Literary Hotel Le Swann, 11 rue de Constantinople, 75008: hotel-leswann.com