Launch of our 2020 program!

The Fondation Thalie is pleased to present Land & Language, a series of paintings by Agnès Thurnauer started in 2016, composed across four variations. These outstandingly political works are inspired by the current migration crisis.

Built on a frame of words written by the English poet Rod Mengham and inspired by various images taken from news, this series of large paintings by Agnès Thurnauer for the first time shown to the public, is as if crossed by a diagonal formed by gestures of solidarity between men and women who cross borders. Here, the bodies carry their language to the point where they become their only country of residence and merge with the continents. Until the last painting, the oceans invaded the geography of the canvas and words became the only possible cartography.
Curator: Nathalie Guiot

Agnès Thurnauer is a Franco-Swiss artist. A self-taught painter, she studied video and cinema at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. Her work addresses the issue of pictorial language; her practice implements a space in which figuration and abstraction yield a new vision. Writing, materials and framing choices are just as essential to her as her painter’s palette. Her recent work, playing with volume, extends this pictorial language into three dimensions: just like in her paintings, the viewer’s gaze circulates between the shapes of the letters to generate fresh interpretations every time. For Agnès Thurnauer, “the viewer shapes the picture” as much as the picture shapes the viewer. Her work activates this spirited interface—this reciprocal reading—between the art and the viewer. Agnès Thurnauer’s work has been exhibited in museums and international art centers (Centre Pompidou, Palais de Tokyo, CCCB Rio, SMAK Gent), and her works are part of many private and public collections. Agnès Thurnauer is represented by Galerie Michel Rein (Paris-Brussels) and Gandy gallery in Bratislava.

Practical information
Until Sunday 8 March 2020
The Foundation is open from Wednesday to Sunday, 14:00 > 18:00
Opening : Free entry, then from Friday 17 January 2020 : 7€ / 5€*
* Reduced price: students, job seekers, -26 year old, SMART members

More information here.

Story of a mad love, which is gradually giving way to tenderness, the correspondence of Anaïs Nin and Henry Miller expresses the constant kindness which will animate the relationship between these two exceptional writers. Letter after letter, we follow the evolution of their relationships over the years while attending fascinating exchanges on the future of their work and the meaning of writing. Two exceptional characters, without complacency towards each other, united in an essential crime, physical, material and literary. Friday, January 24 at the Thalie Foundation, an evening devoted to the year 1932 which will be followed by two other sections on Saturdays January 25 and Sunday January 26: 1933 and 1934.

1932 reading created at the Marathon des mots – Toulouse Métropole in 2018.
The episodes 1933 and 1934 have received support from the Fondation La Poste and the Maison des Arts in Brioux-sur-Boutonne, episodes created on December 14 and 18 at the Maison de la Poésie in Paris.

Joana Preiss is an actress in theater and cinema, singer, performer and director. In 1993, she played in Pascal Rambert’s shows for ten years. In the cinema, she acted in the films of Christophe Honoré, Olivier Assayas, Antoine Barraud, Pia Marais etc. She has also collaborated with artists such as Nan Goldin, Ugo Rondinone and Céleste Boursier Mougenot. After studying classical singing, in 1998 she founded the experimental duo White Tahina. For several years, she has created unique singing performances, interacting with works of art or with musicians in places such as the Kamel Mennour Gallery, the Cartier Foundation, the Louis Vuitton Cultural Center, the Silencio etc. She recently sang in “Courage” directed by Jeremy Demester at Center Pompidou in Metz. The first film she made, Siberia, was presented in international competition at the FID in Marseille in 2011 before being released in 2012. Her short film Silent Asylum was presented at the Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes in 2013 then in numerous festivals and Lands close to Paterson has just been shown at the Anthology Film Archives in NYC at the invitation of Marie Losier. She has recently appeared in movies in Tonino De Bernardi, Vincent Dieutre, Jonathan Millet, Julia Ducournau, then Emilio R. Barrachina, at the theater in The Moon directed by MaisonDahlbonnema and currently in The Lady with Camellias directed by Arthur Nauzyciel.

Born in 1978, Olivier Martinaud graduated from Conservatoire national supérieur d’art dramatique in 2004. In 2008, he directed Imbécile, a musical comedy by Olivier Libaux. He creates the company “garçon pressé ” and directs in German Erich von Stroheimde Christophe Pellet in Berlin in 2009. He creates the literary prices of Thomas Bernhard at La Loge in 2012. With Nils Haarmann, he translates from German three pieces by Nis-Momme Stockmann, including Les Inquiets et les brutes, which he directed at the Lucernaire in 2015. Since 2004, he has recorded over a hundred texts for the programs and fictions of France Culture and France Inter. He also recorded voices for Arte, Center Pompidou and several audio books. He is regularly invited to play, perform or read texts in various literary and artistic events and festivals such as le Marathon des mots and Actoral. At the theater, he is doing scenography of Bruit du monde by Stéphanie Chaillou and Aphrodisia by Christophe Pellet. In cinema, he plays the main role in the next film by Vincent Dietschy, Notre histoire (2019).

Reserve your place
Correspondance (1932) de Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller > Friday 24 January 2020 – 19:00
Correspondance (1933) de Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller > Saturday 25 January 2020 – 17:00
Correspondance (1934) de Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller > Sunday 26 January 2020 – 17:00

Language : french
Duration : 1h, and drinks

Practical information :
Full price of presentation : 25€ / reduced : 15€*
Full price package for the three presentations : 50€ /reduced* : 30€
* Reduced price : students, job seekers, -26 years old, SMART members

From January, the Foundation offers annual or half-yearly subscriptions to benefit from around forty artistic and cultural events.

1- One year pass: 75€/ 35€ (10 events by choice + reduction for special events)
2- Six months pass: 40€ (5 events by choice + reduction for special events)

* Reduced price: students, job seekers, -26 years old, SMART members