World Contemporary Expressions
New Year 2012
Jean Loup Pivin, january 2012
IN THE WIND
Oblige desire to live another year of force or caress of the wind. It avoids the tired mind to have only mechanics of reason to regulate movement. The action?
One reason that could have imagination, but that only believes itself and its ability to understand and program time.
Organization chart of names and functions. Of oncepts and intellect, unable to smile.
Fortunately the wind carries the souls, bodies and the gods without boxes to go into.
Submitting to wind or resisting to it and forward ...
Publication
Nouveautés
Revue Noire Éditions
Mama CASSET
Jean DEPARA
Samuel FOSSO
Zwelethu MTHETHWA
30 ET PRESQUE-SONGES
TRANS
Jean DEPARA
Samuel FOSSO
Zwelethu MTHETHWA
30 ET PRESQUE-SONGES
TRANS
Exposition
Depara, Night & Day in Kinshasa, 1955-1965
Maison Revue Noire
12 Oct 2011 - 18 Feb 2012
Wed-Sat 1:00pm - 7:00pm
First retrospective of the photographer Jean Depara (1928-1997)
Each of these 150 photographies show the Leopoldville (later Kinshasa) bars/dancings crazy nights when the country access to the independance (1960). Everyone experiences those moments when the modern world finally becomes accessible to them, regardless of wether Black or white. In Leopoldville, later knows as Kinshasa, this is taken for the "American way of life", its cars and fashionablr Bills in cowboy outfits, the electric guitars, sax and the music that takes the cha cha cha and above all the rumba. The bands of young Kinshasans, each with their own distinctive attire and their female muses, attend frequently the inumerable bars/dancing halls, support a music band. Athletes, proud of their bodies, parade before their admirers at the pool of the Funa sports complex. That is the scenery and the lifestyle of wich the photographer Dapara make us partake with each one of his images.
First retrospective of the photographer Jean Depara (1928-1997)
Each of these 150 photographies show the Leopoldville (later Kinshasa) bars/dancings crazy nights when the country access to the independance (1960). Everyone experiences those moments when the modern world finally becomes accessible to them, regardless of wether Black or white. In Leopoldville, later knows as Kinshasa, this is taken for the "American way of life", its cars and fashionablr Bills in cowboy outfits, the electric guitars, sax and the music that takes the cha cha cha and above all the rumba. The bands of young Kinshasans, each with their own distinctive attire and their female muses, attend frequently the inumerable bars/dancing halls, support a music band. Athletes, proud of their bodies, parade before their admirers at the pool of the Funa sports complex. That is the scenery and the lifestyle of wich the photographer Dapara make us partake with each one of his images.