When a painting from Matisse becomes a book

A painting can also become a book. Nevertheless, This is the pretty bet made by when painting matisse becomes book the collection “One art”. designed by Charles Dantzig to console us for the closure, for work and for five years, from the Center Pompidou. And it is Dany Laferrière who inaugurates her. drawing inspiration from the famous “great red interior” of Matisse to imagine, with the incredible freshness that characterizes this academician so little academic, a drawn novel full of colors, pain, humor, tears and poetry. Here as in a dream. and there as in a nightmare, we dive head down in a slum of Port-au-Prince where “A shy and secret young artist” persists in appearing his life in a sketch book, while barbaric gangs cause flows of blood and a French teacher “Put to music from Apollinaire translated into Creole”.

At the heart of the book: the enigma of human violence. posed in particular by a appalling gang when painting matisse becomes book leader who would like to be considered as a genius of rap. And this unsurpassable conviction. which could well summarize all the falsely naive aesthetic of the author Canada-Haitian of “how to make love with a negro without getting tired”: “Art releases and if it cannot release it is not art. »»

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