(photos of the artist and his paintings from his own photoshop)
Philippe Platel is advertising his exhibitions and the opera show:
"2 exhibitions by the French painter Philippe Platel during the 48 Stunden Neukolln festival in the Alte Kindl Brauerei (theme : Luxus):
- TRADER : 8 portraits capturing the borderline between ecstasy and fear,
glory and decadence.
A lyric performance created by Philippe Platel will be presented during the show opening at 22h in the gallery, starring 2 singers, 1 actress, 1 pianist.
-Golendboys : Philippe Platel will participate in... an other show curated in the Kindl Brauerei (Vollgutlager) featuring golden boys wearing “ferreroed” suits, watercolors on newspapers.
The opera show created by Philippe Platel will be performed in its complete version (1h) on Saturday 18th at 20PM at the Hofperleat Café / Neukollner Oper.
2 singers (Benoît Deney, tenor, Arnaud Kientz, baryton)
1 actress (Dorothée Daffy)
1 pianist (Maxime Neyret)
2 stage directors (Elodie Paschalides, Philippe Platel)"
This is the lyric show Philippe Platel created for this event in Berlin. This young troup has just set off to Berlin: first the painter and his friend with the paintings; they have to display the paintings in the old brewery.
Then they will be joined tomorrow by the rest of the cast, the singer, the pianist, the actress and the other stage director(I might be wrong here but the final end is that the troup will be complete tomorrow). I cannot help thinking about Picasso 's painting the "Saltimbanques", having also in mind some Apollinaire verses I learnt by heart a long time ago on the same theme of nomadic art in the circus, and of course the famous tune on this poem, although these young artists are not proper 'circus'artists. They are sharing the same passion for their specific art, through painting or singing or imagining a story based on famous arias or less famous ones related to this theme of Trade, (Firma)
a story linked to what makes men and women seek fame and money by all means.... I am pretty sure this performance is going to be a success, it will appeal to the younger generation, well aware of this rat-race and its drawbacks which in fact are as old as the world! The baritone will be the boss and the tenor the thriving ignorant apprentice to fame and fortune at any cost.
One key illustration in the programme is the modern Stravinsky '
The Rake's Progress': 'Tis not your money but your soul' ...This is the climax of the production followed by the fall: illusions and dreams of eternal wealth and luxurious ways of life collapse ... Fate and evil ... Mephistopheles and Doctor Faustus, eternal myth seen in a great modernised concept which is so well illustrated by scandals and juicy financial affairs all over the world at the moment.
Artistic life is rich among young Paris artists with creative performances which manage to exist on a shoe-string and are much more fascinating and sincere than other productions which follow the regular path of subventions. I feel very proud of them and would like to see this production in Marseille. '.
It would be fair to have it in a theater in Marseille. After all this old city will be "European Capital of Culture' in 2013...
Philippe
is presenting 8 portraits just like Hogarth did on the same theme :"The famed Russian-American composer’s inspiration for the opera came from a series of engravings of the same name he had seen on exhibit in Chicago in 1947. The eight engravings were the work of William Hogarth, the British artist and satirist who often collaborated with novelist Henry Fielding. The engravings told the story of the rise and fall of Tom Rakewell, son of a rich merchant, whose womanizing, drinking, and gambling across eighteenth-century London led to his incarceration at Bedlam, the infamous lunatic asylum.''
(complete article here)
These events hopefully will take place in Paris in September and I will make a point in attending, being so fond of what they create! I will add photos of the complete cast if possible .
To all of them, for all these artistic events 'break a leg'...
Note: I gave a link to The rake progress( with this stunning video) and I must give more details about this link and thank the uploader : as it is, it is very strong, gives another catastrophic dimension to this tale, which is in fact full of horror... money being always linked to terror when abused. The singing is very effective too, so, this is the complete link:
Festival di Stresa
THE RAKE'S PROGRESS
di Igor Stravinskij
Tom Rakewell Andrew Kennedy
Anne Sally Matthews
Nick Shadow Simone Alberghini
Mother Goose\ Baba the Turk Annie Vavrille
Trulove\ Keeper Carlo Lepore
Sellem Lorenzo Carola
Ars Cantica Choir
maestro del coro Marco Bettini
Orchestre delle Settimane Musicali di Stresa
direttore Gianandrea Noseda
videoproiezioni Lucrezia Le Moli
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