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NOVEMBER 18, 2023
APRIL 14, 2024
Laurette SUCCAR
The Little One with the amulets
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By inviting me to exhibit at the Grataloup Museum, Milena Cheynet de Beaupré – Grataloup had this intuition, simple and obvious, of a certain complicity with this great artist to whom the exhibition for the fall-winter 2023 season will be dedicated, Ladislas Kijno .
For my part, I had no idea of so much complicity, both on a human and artistic level.
It was only by seeking to tame a universe so far from mine that I realized its incredible proximity. The free exercise of thought, the gentle fantasy, the strength of expressiveness, the undisturbed being in the world of this warrior painter invited me to establish a fruitful dialogue with his traces, his signs, his words. Because poetry occupied a primordial place in his life, just as it did in mine.
I was therefore driven by a double requirement: to enter into dialogue with this major artist of contemporary art and to tame with humility a place that is far from trivial. Because the Prieuré Saint-Saturnin, located in the heart of the historic center of Chevreuse, is always and again an open space, conducive to the development of creativity, a space where the footsteps and songs of its multiple occupants resonate.
Counterpoint immediately emerged as the common thread of my future work. For me it was not a question of offering artistic works that had already been created. But to inhabit, even if only temporarily, this landscape vibrant with light. With works specially designed for the Priory Garden. In order to invite visitors to enter into poetry and painting alongside us, to approach the symbolic charge of language and material.
By its protean nature, the Artist's Book is a fertile ground for the imagination, it opens up fields of possibility and sharing. Combining writing and plastic intervention – drawing, painting, collage, sewing, engraving, etc. – the book becomes a space for experimentation.
The installations intended to take over the Garden of the Grataloup Museum will invite young and old to explore the multiple forms and materials borrowed from the artist's book. Six months for.
Laurette Succar
Laurette Succar is a multidisciplinary artist.Poet, scenographer, visual artist and publisher of artists’ books French of Lebanese origin. Coming from a family of intellectuals who fled the Lebanese civil war, she became involved in literary and artistic creation very early on. After studying Philosophy at the Sorbonne University, she taught in a State High School in the Paris region (Académie de Créteil), specialized in Philosophy of Education at the Institut Supérieur de Pédagogie de Paris, then decides to leave National Education permanently to devote himself to writing and painting.
Author of poetry collections, artist books and object books, she is regularly invited to speak in schools and universities. She also participates in public readings, poetry festivals and conferences around the world.
His plastic works - paintings, drawings and installations - are exhibited in France and abroad and appear in numerous public and private collections.His artist books are part of prestigious collections, notably at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris.
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