La répétition
- show
- dance
- nature
- music
- exhibition
- guitar
- singing
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In 1936, Marie Laurencin painted the painting La Répétition. At first sight, nothing distinguishes it from an agreed genre scene. A group of young women is assembled; one holds a libretto for the song, another a guitar for the music, yet another outlines a dance step, while the other two look at them. Without appearing to be so, this painting is nothing less than a reformulation of Les Demoiselles d'Avignon by Pablo Picasso, one of the inaugural works of modernism: the same curtain opened by one of the models, the same number of figures feminine in a pyramidal composition, same chromatic rhythms – a dog replacing a still life in the foreground. Except that, far from multiplying heterogeneities, the whole picture is marked by a principle of duplication. Repetition is not only the subject of the painting (repetition as necessary for a performance to be successful), it is also its method, embodied by the fact that all the faces are identical – a doubling within the doubling.
Curated by Éric de Chassey, Director General of the National Institute of Art History.
Where does it take place?
Le Centre Pompidou-Metz
Centre Pompidou-Metz
Parvis des Droits de l'Homme
Metz
France
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