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PAUL LOUIS ROSSI
Paul Louis Rossi, born November 4, 1933 in Nantes (Loire-Atlantique). Died in Paris in 2025.
Poet, novelist, essayist, art critic, film critic and jazz critic.
“An analog world”
Born in Nantes in 1933, poet, novelist and essayist, author of “one of the major works of our time” (Yves di Manno), Paul Louis Rossi has enjoyed a special relationship with the Municipal Library (of Nantes) since 2001, when he decided to donate his manuscripts and archives to the library. In 2004, an exhibition was dedicated to him, in which inscape or interior landscape invited imaginative speculation as a means of elucidating the world. Paul Louis Rossi wrote “No sooner have I enunciated an idea, gathered an impression, heard a word, than it moves with surprising agility towards another sensation, another vision, another similar or contrary perception (…) This order gives me a kind of joy in advance, for I know, once the paraphrase has been written – once the construction has been completed – that it will reveal its own figure, its truth, which lies not in meaning, but in its own organization.” These are the Démons de l’Analogie that he invites us to follow in his company, between history, literature, mineralogy, botany, cinema and music, in a dialogue with the writers Adelbert von Chamisso and Novalis, the painters Lambert Doomer and Jean-Michel Meurice, the engravers Dürer, Altdorfer and Renaud Allirand, the musician Jean-Yves Bosseur, the Noh theater, the Kachina dolls of the Hopi Indians photographed by Aby Warburg.
Tastes, choices and passions are presented in an itinerary set in space and scenography by Nantes-based visual artist Eric Fonteneau, “as if to deduce an original aesthetic lesson”.
Source [LISTEN [FR]]: France Culture / Du jour au lendemain / 25 janvier 2023
CATHERINE MARCHADOUR
Catherine Marchadour is an artist born in France in 1946.
Drawing equally on Japanese art, literature and repetitive music, Catherine Marchadour’s highly personal universe combines folding and intense color, supported by a great clarity of line. Before being stretched and marouflaged (i.e. glued to a support), all her canvases are first folded and worked supple, sometimes on both sides. Although abstract and formally simple, his compositions retain the memory of these folds, like paper that has been folded over and expanded.
Source [Translated from]: Tribune de Genève
BS25 – January/Jun 1989
pp.49-55
PAUL LOUIS ROSSI
Anna Livia
Drawings by CATHERINE MARCHADOUR
7 A4 sheets – 21 x 29.7 cm. Drawings and typed texts.