Böcker av Guillaume de Sardes

Half a century after Pasolini's death, his legacy still pervades the diverse creative fields in which he worked; he remains a source of inspiration for filmmakers today.>This book, and the exhibition it accompanies, demonstrates how the aesthetics of the writer-director's films were developed and influenced through the prism of classical and contemporary art, with clips from Accattone, Théorème, Salò, and other films juxtaposed alongside paintings by Pontormo, Pieter Claesz, Giorgio Morandi, Fernand Léger, and Francis Bacon. It retraces Pasolini's formative years studying art history at the University of Bologna under the guidance of Roberto Longhi, who held a lasting influence on Pasolini's taste. In his films, Pasolini reappropriated classical paintings in three ways: reproducing them as "living paintings" (The Deposition of Pontormo in La Ricotta); referencing them by reworking their composition or evoking striking details (Caravaggio's Sick Young Bacchus in Accatone); or including them on set (Juan Gris's Nature morte devant une fenêtre ouverte in Salo). To complete the book, works by thirty contemporary artists such as John Waters, Jenny Holzer, William Kentridge, Tom Burr, Marlene Dumas, Cerith Wyn Evans, Ernest Pignon-Ernest, Giovanni Fontana, and more demonstrate Pasolini's lasting influence on the art world.

Two photographers, one city. Mounir Fatmi and Guillaume de Sardes lived and photographed Tangier. Their different perspectives do not claim to capture the city - could that even be done? -, but rather to reproduce the sense of a city. The approach is subjective, sensitive to the passage of time, balancing documentary and fiction. Mounir Fatmi:Brimming with details, the photographs in this series capture the atmosphere of a constantly changing city where bodies literally blend into the background. In this sense, they are weighed down by a sociological weight, but they are just as much about intimate and memorial exploration. Guillaume de Sardes:By mixing image and text, Guillaume de Sardes also questions the relationship between photography and literature: "Images fix my memories, writing clarifies them. For me, photography is above all the means of retaining a moment and literature is to give it meaning. " In doing so, he places his work in line with that of another traveller who lingered in Tangier more than sixty years ago: the poet and photographer Allen Ginsberg.