Our activities in September
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Opening on Wednesday 2 September from 18:00 to 21:00

The Fondation Thalie is pleased to present Vue liquide, a solo show by Caroline Achaintre.

Tapisserie, watercolor, basketry, ceramics: the many traditional techniques Caroline Achaintre uses to create a carnival of the absurd. Her works are haggard, hysterical masks, captured in primitive cries. She creates openings, mouths, eyes, orifices. She seeks intensity in her work: « I am interested in primary sensations. This is why prehistoric art inspires me: everything is simply said and the superfluous is excluded. It is a very powerful art. Primitivism is visionary, at the heart of everything. My interest in European carnival folklore has its origins in the age-old tradition of masks, as much as in the caricature of society that carnival represents. »

Born in 1969 in France, raised in Germany, based in the United Kingdom, Caroline Achaintre is an internationally renowned artist. After training as a blacksmith, she studied fine arts in London. Her first works were on paper, then she worked with wool from 2002, with clay in 2009, wicker in 2010 and experimented with costumes and performance in 2015. Influenced by post-war British sculpture, the early arts, Memphis design, urban cultures (goth or metal music, horror films, science fiction, etc.), she has developed a unique portfolio of work. Caroline Achaintre has participated in numerous exhibitions, including Making & Unmaking at Camden Arts Center, London in 2016, Entangled: Threads and Making, Turner Contemporary, Margate in 2017, the 13th Triennale of the Baltic States in 2018 and Another Banana Day for the Dream-Fish, Palais de Tokyo, Paris in 2018. Her solo exhibitions include Present/Future, Illy Prize, Castello Di Rivoli, Turin (2014); Caroline Achaintre, Art Now, Tate Britain, London (2015); Duo Infernal, Galerie Art: Concept, Paris (2018); Permanent Wave, Belvedere21, Vienna (2019); Scanner, Arcade, London (2019); Caroline Achaintre, MO.CO, Montpellier (2019). Caroline Achaintre is represented by Galerie Art: Concept, Paris and Arcade, London & Brussels.

Curator: Nathalie Guiot
Text: Vincent Honoré, Director of exhibitions at MO.CO. Montpellier

As part of EXTRA, with the support of the French Institute and the Cooperation and Cultural Action Service of the French Embassy in Belgium

After the success of the online Equinox(es), the Foundation is pleased to welcome an evening dedicated to poetry in its spaces and invites some twenty poets who will read aloud. The theme of the evening is FRAGILE. The Centre Pompidou Paris gives a carte blanche to the Fondation Thalie for this special Equinox(es) celebrating John Giorno Poetry Day, as part of the Extra festival program.

“We all are fragile – and resilient. So is also our world: fragile and resilient. And we are all well aware of this frailty – more than ever in this strange year between lockdown and freedom, crystallization and metamorphosis, violence and illusions.

9.19.2020 will bring together poets, readers, artists, performers, whose voices will resonate at Foundation Thalie on “The art of frailty”. Among the questions addresses by “Fragile”: how can we feed the world in which we want to live in tomorrow and have it exist as we want it? Which society will we be able to build? How to transform frailty into poetry? And how can poets contribute to a local identity and a global ecosophy?”
Barbara Polla

This event will be broadcast live on the websites of the Fondation Thalie and the Centre Pompidou.

Programme: Nathalie Guiot, Barbara Polla et Pascale Barret.

Launch of the Équinoxe(s) publication following the event

In partnership with the Centre Pompidou and the Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles in Paris:

The Fondation Thalie supports the exhibition Mime by Mathis Collins, curated by Émilie Renard at the Criée in Rennes.

Opening: Friday 25 September

Émilie Renard and Mathis Collins are the laureates of the European Chronicles grant initiated by the Fondation Thalie, in partnership with the Fondation Hippocrene and the Camargo Foundation.

Mathis Collins carves into the woods laughing or weeping figures, mocking and mute. He first sketches different planes in the thickness of planks then digs their surface with gouge so that the force, the angle, the attack of each blow definitively marks their volumes and textures.

On the occasion of the exhibition, Mathis Collins and Émie Renard publish a critical fiction entitled Comédie française.

Mathis Collins was born in 1986 in Paris, he studied art between Cergy, Metz, Montreal and Brussels before joining Open School East in London. His practice alternates sculpture and performance and collective workshops organized around craft objects and skills, thereby reviving forms of collective creativity. He is represented by the galerie Crèvecoeur, Paris.

Born in 1976 in Vendôme, Émilie Renard is a curator and art critic. His research builds on the power of art to represent and act within the structures of the imaginary and society. In an institutional context, (at the direction of La Galerie, CAC Noisy-le-Sec, 2013-2018), she sought to make the artistic program of the art center a lever to act on social, aesthetic and symbolic relationships between the people who drive it: artists, teams, audiences, partners.

Download the press release here.