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Going out in Nantes
Yes, Europe is hot. Is that a reason to avoid it? Not if you madly love art in all its forms. In France, Nantes displays, as every summer, the colors of its cultural journey linked by a green line drawn on the ground, Le Voyage à Nantes. This year, The awakening of the statues gives rise to sometimes surprising encounters, such as this allegory nonchalantly seated on the ramparts of the Castle of the Dukes of Brittany, a stone’s throw from the more classical statue of Anne of Brittany.
Some exhibitions are more thought-provoking, such as the third edition ofDecolonial expression(s) at the museum of the Castle of the Dukes of Brittany (until November 12). Both Cameroonians, the artist Barthélémy Toguo and the historian François Wassouni dialogue in their own way with pieces from the museum’s collection in order to shed another light on the colonial past. Remember that the city of Nantes prospered thanks to the slave trade of the XVIIe in the 19the century. Barthélémy Toguo also invites visitors to the expo inhabit the earth until September 17 at the HAB Galerie, near the island of Nantes. baptized Road to Exilethe huge boat filled to capacity sailing on a sea of bottles particularly strikes the imagination.
Enter the convent in Rennes
On a rainy Sunday, I headed for the Couvent des Jacobins, in Rennes, to discover the exhibition Forever Sixties from the Pinault collection. Beyond the American icons, the visual revolution of the 1960s was lived with just as much intensity on the other side of the Atlantic. Thus, after having (re) seen certain famous shots by Richard Avedon, we dive into the heterogeneous universe of Niçois Martial Raysse, who rubbed shoulders with several pop artists during his American parenthesis, Alain Jacquet, who had fun transposing certain famous paintings into the pop aesthetic, such as Lunch on the Grassand three “pop amazons”, the Austrian Kiki Kogelnik, the Belgian Evelyne Axell, a student of Magritte, and the unmissable Nikki de Saint Phalle, who started her series of Babes at the legendary Chelsea Hotel in New York. Anything but austere, the setting erected in the 14the century magnificently showcases some 80 works — many of which have never been exhibited before. In Nantes as in Rennes, you don’t leave the city without having tasted at least one whole galette with a bowl of cider and a salted butter caramel crepe!
From Jean-Michel Basquiat to Sarah Bernhardt in Paris
WhileAt full volume. Basquiat and music transported its household members to the Music Museum – Philharmonie de Paris, the Louis Vuitton Foundation presents Basquiat X Warhol, with four hands. Although the collaboration of the two artists turns out to be fascinating on several levels, one cannot help but feel unease when watching a behind-the-scenes video photo session, in which the eldest hugs the young prodigy with insistence.
At the Carnavalet Museum, the oldest museum in the city, Paris is pataphysical by Philippe Starck, which will end on August 27, makes us see mythical places with other eyes, such as the Eiffel Tower which he saw from his office and which he describes as a “wind sculpture”.
At the Petit Palais, the immense Sarah Bernhardt welcomes us in all her excessiveness. Disappeared 100 years ago, the Divine was celebrated by other big names of the time, from Victor Hugo to Marcel Proust. It was she who inspired Jean Cocteau to use the expression “sacred monster”. No, the first big star in history does not disappoint.
Not new, but still beautiful
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