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Beirut and the Golden Sixties

manifesto of fragility


  • Silvana
  • Expo: 14/09/2022 - 31/12/2022, Musée d'art contemporaine, Lyon
  • by Sam Bardaouil, Till Fellrath
The 16th Lyon Biennale: manifesto of fragility positions fragility at the heart of a generative form of resistance that is emboldened by the past, responsive to the present and primed for the future. Conceived as a collective statement, authored through word, image, sound and movement, it calls on a community of resilient voices to draft a manifesto for a world that is blamelessly fragile.

ISBN 9788836652945 | EN | HB
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Publisher Silvana
ISBN 9788836652945
Author(s) Sam Bardaouil, Till Fellrath
Publication date October 2022
Edition Hardback
Dimensions 260 x 220 mm
Illustrations 280 col. & bw ill.
Pages 304
Language(s) English ed.
Exhibition Musée d'art contemporaine, Lyon
Publisher ISBN 9788836652952 (FR)
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The 16th Lyon Biennale: manifesto of fragility positions fragility at the heart of a generative form of resistance that is emboldened by the past, responsive to the present and primed for the future. Conceived as a collective statement, authored through word, image, sound and movement, it calls on a community of resilient voices to draft a manifesto for a world that is blamelessly fragile. The Biennale is structured around three distinct yet inter-connected layers, where fragility and resistance are explored through the lens of the individual, the city, and the world respectively. Beirut and the Golden Sixties revisits a turbulent chapter in the development of modernism in Beirut beginning with the 1958 Lebanon crisis and ending with the 1975 outbreak of the Lebanese Civil War. Through 230 works by 34 artists and more than 300 archival documents, the exhibition examines this romanticized era of global influence in Beirut to highlight how collisions between art, culture and polarised political ideologies turned the Beirut art scene into a microcosm for larger trans-regional tensions. As a city that is arguably in and of itself a manifesto of fragility, Beirut continues to evoke both vulnerability and determination – or at least traces of it – and conjure forms of resistance, called forth by the urgency of the moment and the desire to be remembered.

Le catalogue Les Portes d''or. Doudelet et le symbolisme s''attache à faire redécouvrir un artiste pleinement inscrit dans le monde de l''art symboliste belge et international. C''est tout l''univers « fin de siècle » qui se donne à voir dans l''oeuvre de cet artiste singulier. Peintures, dessins, illustrations, gravures et décors de théâtre témoignent d''une aventure artistique qu''il partagea avec Maurice Maeterlinck, dont il fut un ami intime et l''illustrateur attitré. Ce volume met l''accent sur les années symbolistes, 1890-1900. Doudelet s''intéresse aux forces invisibles qui agitent le monde. La mort, la fatalité, l''amour, le silence, la survie de la conscience sont des thèmes qu''il explore. C''est pourquoi il s''intéresse au motif de la porte. En effet, la porte est un détail iconographique central dans la culture visuelle et littéraire fin-de-siècle. Elle représente un passage entre des mondes, comme le montrent le dessin et le poème Les Portes d''or : le réel et le rêve, le temporel et le spirituel, la naissance et la mort, le matériel et l''invisible.