2023-05-10 11:22:00
Oopen a window on nature in Lens
What is a landscape? The 170 works currently exhibited at the Louvre-Lens each offer a distinct answer to this simple question. Windows on nature but also on the states of mind of their authors… the engravings, paintings, photographs and sculptures, selected by Vincent Pomarède and Marie Gord, testify to the diversity of views on our environment for more than five millennia. From Egyptian papyri and Babylonian tablets that evoke the creation of the world to the abstract paintings of Joan Mitchell who reinvents the way of representing the fields surrounding her house in Vétheuil (Val-d’Oise), the treasures on display offer a magnificent compendium of history. art. Better ! A real invitation to travel that the staging, signed Laurent Pernot, transforms into a pleasant walk for a day, from sunrise to sunset. Indeed, playing on the intensity of the lighting, the scenography designed by the visual artist (with the help of Mathis Boucher) offers spectators a rare experience: total immersion in the canvases of the biggest names in world painting, Nicolas Poussin to Georgia O’Keeffe via Canaletto, Fragonard, Hokusaï, Corot, Monet, Kandinsky or even Nicolas de Staël. This exhibition will undoubtedly be a milestone.
“Landscape, window on nature”, at the Louvre-Lensuntil July 24.
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Immerse yourself in a dystopian world with Silo
There is an atmosphere as heavy as it is fascinating in Silo, the new Apple TV+ series, available on Canal+. A monumental staircase of 144 floors hierarchizes the society made up of 10,000 souls. Upstairs, the decision makers, downstairs, the little hands that keep this closed place running. It is there, in this silo, that humanity now lives. Ravaged, the outside world is considered unbreathable. Births are controlled by contraceptive “screws” and when a citizen asks to leave the silo, this right is granted to him on the condition that he breaks definitively with the community. In the cafeteria, the inhabitants watch him tread the outside on a big screen and… die, which ends up convincing them that there is no life outside the silo. Adapted from the anticipation trilogy written by American Hugh Howey, the first volume of which was first published on the Internet before becoming a bestseller in 2012, Silo is a captivating series from the first minutes, in an atmosphere between Welcome to Gattaca et Blade Runner. We follow Juliette (very convincing Rebecca Ferguson, already seen in particular in Mission : Impossible et Reminiscence) who doubts the official truth asserted by the authorities of the silo and will progress in his investigation. A suffocating thriller that plunges us into a dystopian underworld.
Siloon Apple TV+ and available on Canal+
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Rediscover Pasolini at the theater
A vacation home in Italy. A family that comes, like every summer, to spend the long holidays there. A boy “picked up on the beach” who shakes up this little world by bewitching everyone… the scenario of the novel and the film Theorem* by Pier Paolo Pasolini who caused a scandal at the Venice Film Festival in 1968 offers the material for the new show by Amine Adjina and Émilie Prévosteau. If it remains faithful to the subversive spirit of the initial screenplay, even instilling very contemporary political allusions which make the public react, the text of this play skilfully multiplies the references to Dom Juan who “(s)e sen
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