Gilles Broussaud

The power of Congolese statuettes signed Benoit Konongo

Collector Gilles Broussaud opens his doors to us and talks about the disturbing phenomena linked to his collection of Congolese statuettes.

Baby Joachim Damana, the young ladies of Brazzaville

A precocious sculptor, famous at the age of 15, Joachim Badindamana was born in Congo Brazzaville in 1950. He began by working in wood in the style of Muta Mayola and very quickly won a first sculpture prize and then a scholarship. allowing him to study fine arts in Germany. He made his life between Berlin and Dusseldorf in the 1970s and then turned to creating monumental bronzes before returning to Congo at the invitation of President Sassou Ngesso in the early 1980s. Author of monumental bronze sculptures erected in the public squares of Brazzaville from the 1980s, his emblematic works of the Congolese capital disappeared during the events of 1997. The population recovered the bronze to make pots. For Gastineau Massamba, Les Demoiselles de Brazzaville is an important work for the history of contemporary Congolese sculpture.

Mériadeg the arzaunote

A day in the life of the painter Mériadeg Courtet, from the Pont des Arts to the Beaux-Arts in Paris. Mériadeg Courtet opened the biggest Parisian artistic quats during the golden age of this movement, between the 80s and 2000. He still practices raw and uncompromising art and has not calmed down. Far from there. From squats to zones to defend, often interned in psychiatric units, he is perhaps the last dinosaur of punk still active.

I hate nature

The return of the enfant terribles of direct action, Guillaume Tel4 and Gilles Broussaud. Very active on the French alternative scene in the 1990s, they seem to have disappeared from the landscape for around twenty years. Jonathan Bougard found them and filmed a new performance, in the heart of Montreuil in Seine Saint Denis.

Carolina Virus

A red-haired man walks in the courtyard of the Louvre Museum. He holds a large shell and hides his face with it. The shell is sculpted with a neutral face. The man walks towards the statues which adorn the Tuilleries promenade. A curious dialogue begins.