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Below is our listing of upcoming arts events taking place in the UK which involve French artists or arts organisations.
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Calle Obrapia by company Ex Nihilo (photo Henry Krul)
Ping Pong Project
Stockton International Riverside Festival
28th July-1st Aug 2010
Festival
Ping Pong Project is a European project, whose purpose is to encourage international artistic exchanges, in street arts and creation in public spaces. First created in 2009 at the TAC festival in Valladolid – Spain, the project expands in 2010 with an exchange between the Cratère/Surfaces festival in Alès – France, from July 1st to 3rd, and the Stockton International Riverside Festival in Stockton-on-Tees – UK, from July 28th to August 1st. Both will welcome 5 companies from the opposite country in their programming: les Apostrophés, Ex Nihilo, Les Ateliers Denino, Le ratatouille théâtre and 1 Watt will be in Stockton and Avanti Display, Gravity and Levity, Motionhouse, Whalley Range All Stars and Tangled Feet will perform in Alès. The Ping Pong Project is managed by La Cellule and le Muscle, which accompany festivals and companies with advice and their international expertise, and organize with the festivals a specific Ping Pong site, both friendly and festive, that can also be made available for meetings.
See also
> www.pingpongproject.canalblog.com
Pierre Soulages Peinture 130 x 102 cm, 10 Janvier 2010 Acrylic on canvas
Pierre Soulages: New Paintings
Bernard Jacobson Gallery
24th June-31st Aug 2010
Exhibition
Bernard Jacobson Gallery presents in June the first Pierre Soulages' exhibition to be held in nearly 40 years. The exhibition will feature exclusive new works by the artist. Now 90 years old, Pierre Soulages has been recently honoured by having a painting exhibited in the Louvre and a major retrospective of his work at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. This retrospective was seen by over 500,000 people, making it the 4th most visited exhibition in the history of the Pompidou (after Dali, Matisse and Kandinsky) with many more visitors than the top exhibitions of the past year in the UK - an astounding feat for an abstract painter. In 2002 Soulages became the first living painter to exhibit at the Hermitage in St Petersburg. A purpose-built museum devoted to the work of Soulages is scheduled for completion in Rodez in 2012. In 1979 after thirty years as an internationally successful artist, Soulages embarked upon a new type of painting. Having always been interested in light he began to make paintings which were totally black. These new works he described as Outrenoir (Ultrablack). With contrasting areas of matt and gloss paint and ridges and gashes across their surface, these paintings draw focus on light’s reflection - changing with the light conditions and with the position of the viewer in front of the painting. This will be the first ever exhibition of these career-defining paintings in London.
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Pavilion 2010 by Jean Nouvel
Serpentine Gallery
10th July-17th Oct 2010
Exhibition
This year—the Serpentine's 40th Anniversary—the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion is designed by world-renowned French architect Jean Nouvel. This 2010 Pavilion is the 10th commission in the Gallery’s annual series, the world’s first and most ambitious architectural programme of its kind. It will be the architect’s first completed building in the UK.
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Tatiana Trouvé
South London Gallery
1st Oct-28th Nov 2010
Exhibition
This is the first ever solo show in the UK for the 2007 winner of the Marcel Duchamp Prize. Tatiana Trouvé has gained international recognition for her room constructions, architectonic interventions and metal sculptural objects. For the South London Gallery, she will create a new installation in response to the setting of its main gallery.
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SCORCHED by Wajdi Mouawad
The Old Vic Tunnels
3rd Sep-2nd Oct 2010
Theatre
When Nawal Marwan dies, she leaves letters for her twins, to be delivered to their brother and to their father…and the mystery begins: They thought their father was dead and never knew of a brother. The letters plunge them into the maelstrom of their war-ravaged family history. This British premiere of Wajdi Mouawad’s stunning, multi-generational, time twisting epic about the human fall-out from civil war and the power of forgiveness is storytelling at its powerful best. Award-winning Wajdi Mouawad is the most performed contemporary French-speaking playwright at present. A totally original voice in international theatre, Mouawad spans the cultural gaps between his native Lebanon, North America and Europe. A Dialogue and Old Vic co-production in The Old Vic Tunnels. Dialogue bring new international plays to the UK. Mon - Sat 7.45pm; Thurs & Sat 2.30pm. (no matinee on Sat 4 Sept) TICKETS - £25, £20, £12 OLD VIC BOX OFFICE: 0844 8717628