Wharol, Basquiat, Molinier, Matisse, Degas… Exhibitions not to be missed in 2023

Bordeaux. Long regarded as marginal, subversive and obscene, Pierre Molinier (1900-1976) has since regained his rightful place in art history. Presented in many museum collections, the sulphurous painter from Agen, dubbed by André Breton, is in the spotlight in the city he chose to live, stage and disappear: Bordeaux.

It was there that he was blacklisted in 1951 after the scandal caused by Le Grand Combat, a jumble of corpses engaged in amorous combat presented at the Salon d’Automne of Bordeaux independent artists. This spring, the Frac Nouvelle-Aquitaine MÉCA dedicates to him a large-scale exhibition that explores all aspects of this artist, artist, painter, poet and photographer: his sources of inspiration include surrealism, fetishism…

Bordeaux. Long regarded as marginal, subversive and obscene, Pierre Molinier (1900-1976) has since regained his rightful place in art history. Presented in many museum collections, the sulphurous painter from Agen, dubbed by André Breton, is in the spotlight in the city he chose to live, stage and disappear: Bordeaux.

It was there that he was blacklisted in 1951 after the scandal caused by Le Grand Combat, a jumble of corpses engaged in amorous combat presented at the Salon d’Automne of Bordeaux independent artists. This spring, the Frac Nouvelle-Aquitaine MÉCA dedicates to him a large-scale exhibition that simultaneously explores all aspects of this painter, artist, painter, poet and photographer: crossing surrealism, fetishism and tantrism from his sources of inspiration. to his historical affiliations (Hans Bellmer, Claude Cahun, Meret Oppenheim…) to his current legacies (Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux, Cindy Sherman, Bruno Pelassy…).

“Salmon Molinier Rose”, March 31 – September 17, Frac Nouvelle-Aquitaine MÉCA, Bordeaux. Wednesday to Sunday from 13:00 to 18:00. Free price (minimum 2 €).

Kapwani Kiwanga, artist anthropologist

Bordeaux. In 1973, the CAPC association organized the first major collective exhibition of contemporary art in Bordeaux, notably the work of Claude Viallat and Gina Pane. The art center, which became a symbol under the leadership of its initiator Jean-Louis Froment and became a museum in the 1980s, is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year.

To mark the occasion, numerous events will accompany the celebration, culminating with Tanzanian-born French-Canadian artist Kapwani Kiwanga. It will be up to this 2020 winner of the prestigious Marcel Duchamp Award to invest in a majestic soul.

There is no doubt that this great artist of the contemporary scene, whose minimal work questions postcolonial societies, will resonate with the plural history of this place: a former warehouse for the storage of colonial food that has seen Christian Boltanski parade since the 1970s, Keith Haring, Richard Serra, to whom the Museum is devoting its first French retrospective , Mike Kelley or even Louise Bourgeois, Anish Kapoor and Cindy Sherman.

“Kapwani Kiwanga”, from June 29 to February 2, 2024, in the nave of the CAPC Museum of Contemporary Art in Bordeaux. Tuesday-Sunday from 11:00 to 18:00. From €4.50 to €8. capc-bordeaux.fr

Surprising faces and other nuggets

Paris. In the spring, the Louis Vuitton Foundation will bring together Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat in an exhibition that brings together one hundred paintings by the pope of Pop art and the Brooklyn Comet between 1984 and 1985.

Two more major figures in art history will be honored at the Musée d’Orsay, which presents an unprecedented dialogue between Édouard Manet and Edgar Degas. The 150 masterpieces highlight their friendship and rivalry, as well as the convergences and divergences that marked the careers of these two great new masters of painting from the 1860s to the 1880s.

The Musée de l’Orangerie will inaugurate an unprecedented retrospective on Matisse. Which will focus on a crucial period: the 1930s, the decade when the artist embarked on an entrepreneurial journey and embraced a new synthetic radicalism. Finally, the 50th anniversary of Pablo Picasso’s death will be accompanied by a series of exhibitions.

“Matisse. Cahiers d’art, the turn of the 1930s, from 1^er March-May 29. At the Orangery Museum.

“Manet/Degas” at the Orsay Museum from March 28 to July 23.

“Basquiat x Warhol, with four hands” at the Vuitton Foundation from April 5 to August 28.

Picasso 2023. Full program at culture.gouv.fr/Actualites/Picasso-2023

When comics meet sound

Angouleme. This month, the Angoulême International Comic Festival celebrates its 50th anniversary. On this occasion, the International Comic Strip Center presents an exhibition that is as unique as it is original: “Rock! Pop! Wizz! When comics turn up the volume.’

Designed by Clémentine Deroudille (notably signed “Doisneau et la musique” at the Paris Philharmonic in 2018) and Vincent Brunner (journalist specializing in music and comics), the hanging honors two generations of popular culture: comics and pop-rock music. .

In the company of around fifty French and international designers, such as the British Charlie Adlard and Jean Sole, hundreds of record covers and many original plates, sometimes unpublished, from INA’s audiovisual archives, he selects clips and explores creativity in situ. the fruitful and laborious dialogue that these two arts have continued for more than half a century.

“Rock! Pop! Wizz! When comics turn up the volume”, from January 25th to December 31st in Angoulême at the Comic Strip – Angoulême Comics Museum. Tuesday – Saturday from 10:00 to 18:00. Sundays and public holidays from 14:00 to 18:00. €5-10.

Daniel Buren stands on the Basque coast

Anglet (64). After Pascal Convert in 2017, Ben and Combas in 2019, Raphaël Zarka in 2020 or Hervé Di Rosa in 2022, the city of Anglet invites this year a new key figure of contemporary art: Daniel Buren.

Born in Boulogne-Billancourt in 1938, this seminal artist is the author of a prolix body of work spanning more than six decades, marked by controversy and success. His first intervention at the Guggenheim Museum in New York in 1971 caused such outrage that it was torn down shortly before the opening of the exhibition.

In 1986, the year it won the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale, the striped columns in the main courtyard of the Pale-Royal caused a scandal. In 1991, his magnificent inclined mirror plane enlarged Entrepôt Lainé (CAPC) architecture. In 2021, Daniel Buren produced his first three-color work in the presidential palace and released the film “À contre-temps, à loin de vue” that reflects his entire journey.

We’ll definitely have it in place this summer (dates not sure) with a new offer and Anglet to find it (64). The event will coincide with the opening of the Galerie Georges-Pompidou, a new building opposite the Villa Beatrix Enea.

A season under the drawing sign

Dordogne. For Alberto Giacometti, painting was the foundation of everything. This environment of spontaneity, essential to sculpture, painting, and architecture, flourishes today in a joyous autonomy subject to no servitude but the existence of its time.

This graphic practice, which is decidedly attention-grabbing, is accompanied by singular approaches that the Season of Painting in the Dordogne appreciates through dozens of exhibitions distributed across the department.

From March 7th, the opening of the festival in Perigueux with “The challenge of La Ligne” presented by 11 artists at the François-Mitterand cultural space. Erwan Venny with “La Ligne bleue” in Carsac-Aillac (April 15 to June 10), Nathalie Joffre with “Tracing Papers” at the Prehistory Interpretation Center (PIP) in Les Eyzies (June 16 to October 8) or the Italian Lorenzo Mattotti (October 3 to from to December 29) his know-how line and color intersects with the cover of The New Yorker, a poster for the 2000 Cannes Film Festival, comics and a children’s book (he won the Grand Prize) Bratislava in 1993 Award at the Illustration Biennale, for “Eugenio”, later adapted into a cartoon).