Photographs by Nicolas Locatelli
Exposition jusqu'au 31 octobre 2021
It's February 2020, and Benjamin Grivaux is in the midst of his bid for the mayoralty of Paris, when he finds himself at the heart of a controversy: intimate videos of him with a young woman invade the web. Once these went viral within hours, Grivaux was forced to resign in the face of the scandal. What was he accused of? Adultery. But mostly of hypocrisy. Nothing very nasty or new in the tabloid of French political figures. Piotr Pavlenski, the video's broadcaster, is a Russian performer, staying in France since 2017 as a political refugee. An artist who has just crossed the already well-established boundaries of artivism, taking contemporary art hostage to denounce not an authoritarian state but adultery, adopting a discou
ARTICLE LONG FORMAT, Vinciane Vuilleumier | It's the dawn of a new world and the earth is shaking. Humankind has become entangled in its own cataclysm, and those who have survived are struggling in the spider's web: what is tomorrow to be? We're in Germany, 1920. The king has fallen, factions flare up, one takes power and then the other. The individual is a patchwork quilt, we tear each other apart and pick each other up as best we can. What an experience it must be, really, to go through such a violent storm - the world will never be the same again, it's true. Man and his ecstasies, man and his hatreds, man and his chimeras - man in the in-between who can't help but lose his footing.
Photographs by Nicolas Locatelli
ARTICLE LONG FORMAT, Aude Robert-Tissot | A la genèse d’une exposition collective se cache bien souvent une rencontre. Alors qu’elle séjourne de manière générale entre le commissaire de l’exposition et les artistes, ou du moins avec leur travail, parfois, la rencontre, la vraie, demeure entre les artistes invités. A la vue d’une des œuvres exposées au Musée d’art et d’histoire de Neuchâtel, une intuition émerge: la rencontre entre deux artistes se distingue des autres; elle semble individuante.
Photographs by Nicolas Locatelli
ARTICLE LONG FORMAT, Vinciane Vuilleumier | You never know when and where art will turn up. The idea may seem strange to an art history graduate, but in reality, many people don't practice museum art. I wasn't much of a museum-goer either, back in the day, before I fell into the words and all that museum art makes people say, think and dream. The museum is an open, public place where we gather together a lot of things that are supposed to make sense - and they do, it's true, when we're told they do.
LONG FORMAT ARTICLE, Patrick Gilliéron Lopreno | Swiss photographer Patrick Gilliéron Lopreno presents us with a photographic «carte blanche» dedicated to the Swiss painter Eugène Burnand to mark the centenary of his death.
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