Hundreds of drawings, paintings, photographs, notebooks and digital images by director Jean-Luc Godard will be revealed at the Fundação de Serralves, in Porto, within the framework of an unprecedented exhibition that will open on Wednesday.
the exhibition Considering the current timeswhose title comes from a shot of “Trailer of the movie that will never exist Wars of lies“, presents at the Casa do Cinema Manoel de Oliveira, in Serralves, in its absolute premiere, paintings, drawings, notebooks, digital images and photographs that make up Godard’s plastic work (1930-2022), from his adolescence to 2022, explained this Tuesday the director of the Casa do Cinema Manoel de Oliveira, António Preto, during a visit to journalists.
“Ninety percent of the works presented in this exhibition are absolutely unprecedented. This is the first time these works will be presented. This is the case, for example, of the last notebook that Godard produced and which is called Test Modificationswhich is presented for the first time and which is, in essence, the summary, an aesthetic and emotional testimony of what Jean-Luc Godard’s journey was,” declared António Preto.
For the director of the Casa do Cinema Manoel de Oliveira and for Serralves “it is a great privilege” to host the exhibition Jean-Luc Godard: Keeping current times like a storywhich is organized by a “collective of four people who are among Godard’s closest collaborators over the last decade and a half” and who sign this exhibition with the name Coletivo Ô Contrarie!, composed of Fabrice Aragno, Jean-Paul Battaggia, Nicole Brenez and Paul Grivas (nephew of director Godard).
The exhibition opens with photographs of the director displayed on the walls of the hallway of the Casa Manoel de Oliveira and with an explanatory text where you can read that for the first time the journey of Jean-Luc Godard “as a creator of still images” will be presented. . images, from his childhood to 2022.”
“Much of Godard’s visual works (paintings, drawings, notebooks, digital images), as well as family photographs taken by his mother Odile Monod, has never been shown before“adds the introductory text.
During the visit to journalists, Paul Grivas highlighted the images of his uncle captured by cell phonebut he also highlighted the first drawings and paintings that Godard made, as well as a notebook made in November 1947 that shows the bourgeois family “attacking” the director.
In a second room of the exhibition you can see some of the works made from the 60s until the year of Jean-Luc Godard’s death.
Notebooks about Godard’s films are on display, as well as pens, scissors, rulers, cigarettes, lighters, a cell phone and even a love notebook that Jean-Luc made to give to his beloved Ana when he was 37 years old.
The exhibition, which can be seen until May 13, 2025 at the Casa do Cinema Manoel Oliveira, will have, in parallel, a film series, conferences and conversations.
On Wednesday, the screening of the short film “Scénarios” (2024), the director’s latest work, is scheduled.
fundamental part of new wave French, a movement that revolutionized cinema starting in the 1950s, Godard had a long and award-winning career, ranging from the best director award in Berlin to The punished (1960), to an honorary Oscar, awarded in 2010 in a ceremony that he did not attend.
Author of influential works for several generations of directors, such as The contempt (1963), with Brigitte Bardot, Gang apart (1964), Peter the fool (1965) or more recent socialism movie (2010) and Goodbye to language (2014), Jean-Luc Godard became known “for his iconoclastic and seemingly improvised cinematographic style, as well as for his uncompromising radicalism,” as The Guardian newspaper recalls in the filmmaker’s obituary.
Source: Observadora
