MARC JURT & MICHEL BUTOR

Quand la poésie rencontre la peinture et la gravure…La fondation Marc Jurt a présenté le produit de la collaboration entre le peintre et le poète Michel Butor. Quoi de plus émouvant que la rencontre entre un peintre et un poète? … « Géographie parallèle », une suite unique et magnifique de 50 travaux, que Marc Butor considérait comme un sommet de son œuvre. Le peintre y multiplie les interventions et les strates, peinture, gravure, griffures, papiers collés, rehauts de plume et de crayon, tandis que l’écrivain y dépose ses mots.

This work in two voices is exceptional in its scope and inspiration. Words and images mingle without ever merging into a gallery and a script that keep each other in sight and lose sight of each other in a dizzying mirror game. The paintings are written, as the poems are painted. Yet it seems as if they are made of the same flesh or the same paste. Each welcomes the other to lend him his voice, his breath, his material.

Each reveals to the other its secret geography and helps it, in a never-ending dialogue, to penetrate the mysteries of its own mystery.

The performance of a young actor in the reading of Michel Butor's texts moved the whole assembly.

Congratulations to the foundation for this wonderful exhibition!