Montévidéo Arthur Dreyfus & Joseph Sciano di Lombo
As part of the Pernod Ricard Foundation’s « Poetry Platform » cycle, Les Mercredis de Montévidéo welcomes Arthur Dreyfus and Joseph Sciano di Lombo, both of whom are pursuing a multiform aesthetic experience of the most inventive kind, through artistic, literary and media spaces.
Arthur Dreyfus is a novelist, photographer, filmmaker, actor and journalist. He has also been a magician. He is the author of very successful novels published by Editions Gallimard such as La Synthèse du camphre, 2010; Belle famille, 2012; Sans Véronique, 2017; as well as particularly brilliant autobiographical writings: Histoire de ma sexualité, Gallimard, 2014; Correspondance indiscrète avec Dominique Fernandez, Grasset, 2016; Je ne sais rien de la Corée, Gallimard, 2017; Journal sexuel d’un garçon d’aujourd’hui, P.O.L, 2021.
He is also the author of Le Livre qui rend heureux illustrated by François Xavier Goby, published by Flammarion, 2011; and 101 Robes, 2015. He has been a journalist for France Inter and Canal +, as well as for the written press. He created with Gurwann Trab Van Vie the series Un film sans… and directed filmic portraits in the form of short and feature films: Isabelle H., 2013; Eric R, 2014; Jean-Luc G., 2014: Federico F., 2015; Arielle D., 2015; Noël et sa mère, 2019; and the documentary Catherine Frot, tous ces yeux qui vous regard …
His photographic work has been presented notably at the Gutknecht Gallery in 2017. He collaborates with many artists, such as Laurent Pernot, and plays in the films of Noël Herpe.
Joseph Sciano di Lombo is an artist and graphic designer, musician and novelist. A classically trained pianist, he brilliantly develops polymorphous works and projects between conceptual gestures, economy of forms and humor, often under the sign of reinterpretation. He is the author of slogans, slogans, and poems for the Opéra national de Paris; of Hairku, haikus for hair; as well as of musical covers associating Mylène Farmer and Erik Satie. He is the author of the album Musique de niche destiné aux animaux, Cracki Records, 2021. He collaborates with the nose Barnabé Fillion (Christophe Lemaire), the harpist Anaïs Gaudemard, as well as with Maxime Kurvers’ shows. He also draws for France Culture, Christian Dior, Aesop, Pierre Frey … In 2019 he presents the exhibition Mysique for Arp at Galerie! (David Giroire), at the Palais-Royal. At the invitation of the graphic designer Fanette Mellier, he wrote a detective novel with great stylistic density L’Oxymore, B42, 2021.
The Pernod Ricard Foundation’s « Poetry Platform » series encourages dialogue with artists, researchers and creators from a wide range of conceptual and visual practices.
