Events
SATURDAY, JULY 7 FROM 3 TO 7 P.M.
Exhibition closing
The launch of the first monograph dedicated to Sophie Podolski published by WIELS and Mercatorfonds, featuring original essays by Lars Bang Larsen, Jean- Philippe Convert, Caroline Dumalin, Chris Kraus and Erik Thys will take place in October at Villa Vassilieff.
SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 4PM-9PM
Opening of the exhibition "Sophie Podolski: The Country Where Everything Is Permitted"
5pm - Where to reside imbibed deprived but freed
Conversation with Caroline Dumalin (curator of the exhibition, WIELS) and Virginie Bobin (head of programs, Villa Vassilieff)
7pm-9pm - Cocktail &DJ set
With PAM (Antinote / Okonkole Y Trompa)
SATURDAY, MAY 19 AT 3 P.M.
Conversation about Sophie Podolski’s reception in the magazines Tel Quel and Luna-Park
With Caroline Dumalin, Rachel Stella and guests
« Writing Is A Living Thing »
Reception and resurgence of Sophie Podolski
With Caroline Dumalin (curator of the exhibition / WIELS), Rachel Stella (art critic) and Vanessa Desclaux (curator and art critic, teacher at Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Art de Dijon)
3pm
It has taken 40 years for the visual work of Sophie Podolski to come to our attention. How come, and why now? Writing this after the show at WIELS in Brussels already happened, where it received remarkable echoes, several possible answers have come forth.
While writing and drawing were inextricably intertwined for Sophie Podolski, during her lifetime she was mostly seen as a poet. The publication of Le pays où tout est permisgarnered her an appreciation among literary circles in Brussels and Paris. Already in 1973, an extract from the book was included in Tel Quel, a prominent magazine of the Parisian intellectual avant-garde, through the agency of Dominique Rolin. That same year, a typeset version was edited by Pierre Belfond, with a preface by Tel Queleditor and novelist Philippe Sollers. Art historian andpublisher Marc Dachy obtained the manuscript to reissue her book in 1979, and published her drawings and texts regularly in his magazine Luna-Park. Her work has rarely been exhibited. One
notable example is the group exhibitionGraphiesin 1977, where Dachy contexualized her writing experiments alongside those of Christian Dotremont, Brion Gysin and Pierre Guyotat.
PROGRAMME
From 3pm to 4:30pm
Caroline Dumalin (curator of the exhibition / WIELS) will recount the appearances of Sophie Podolski’s visual works until its contemporary resurgence (a word that she prefers to the word “rediscovery”). Rachel Stella will come back to the historical and intellectual context of the magazines Tel Quel and Luna-Park in order to capture the glances that may have been made on the work of Sophie Podolski in the 70s. Then, Vanessa Desclaux, curator and teacher at the National Art School of Dijon, will moderate a discussion between Caroline Dumalin, Rachel Stella and the assistance.
From 4:30 to 6pm
The conversation will then continue around a glass at the bar of the Villa Vassilieff with students of the National Art School of Dijon and National Art School of Lyon that will present the results a two-days workshop centred on the exhibition. They will be accompanied by Vanessa Desclaux et Elsa Boyer (writer, teacher at the Art School of Lyon).
With Paul Bourdoncle, Théo Chikhi, Nina Dubois, Patricia Lino Dias, Manon Montravers, Flore Mycek, Agnès Quenardel, Guillaume Seyller, Tina Wecker et Gaspar Willmann.
* Tel Quel is a French avant-garde literaryreview, founded in 1960 in Paris by Éditions du Seuil by several young authors gathered around Jean-Edern Hallier and Philippe Sollers. The aim of the journal was to reflect the reevaluation by the avant-garde of the classics of the history of literature. Despite its literary orientation, the journal’s positions are very characteristic of the movements of ideas in the 1960s and 1970s, notably the displayed Maoism of some of its members.
Source : Wikipedia
**The art historian Marc Dachy is a Dada specialist and founder in 1975 of the magazine Luna-Park, devoted to literary and plastic avant-gardes, where he published texts by Antonin Artaud, Samuel Beckett, John Cage ... The magazine stops in 1982 and reappears from 2003 to 2009.
Source : Connaissance des Arts
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