MEDI1TV Afrique : #Chronique_culture du 16-09-24 - 16/09/2024
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00:00Welcome to Mediane TV and art in this chronicle of culture and direction Marrakech.
00:14Jardin Majorelle, Who are we? and Yves Saint Laurent of the Vilaine Lulu comic strip
00:20are the two exhibitions that represent respectively an immersion in the long history of this magical place
00:26and a highlighting of the pencil stroke, a less known aspect of Yves Saint Laurent.
00:30Jardin Majorelle, Who are we? celebrates the centenary of this emblematic garden
00:35created by the French orientalist painter Jacques Majorelle.
00:39The exhibition retraces the history since its creation in the Palmarès in 1924
00:44and its opening to the public in 1947 until its acquisition in 1980 by Yves Saint Laurent
00:50and its opening now to the public.
00:53Listen to this effect, Madison Cox, he is the president of the Majorelle Foundation.
00:59We started to open the garden to the public just before the Covid,
01:03then the Covid everything was stopped and now we will open the garden to the public again
01:10I think from mid-October until mid-May, a period of very high attendance because it is important.
01:18I think it is important that the public also see this garden
01:21which is very different in spirit and atmosphere than the Majorelle garden.
01:26The house unfortunately can not leave 3 or 4,000 people in it
01:31because the house remained absolutely intact after the death of Pierre Berger.
01:37Everything remained intact, be it carpets, furniture, objects, paintings
01:42and so unfortunately we can not leave large groups of 3 or 4,000 people in it
01:49otherwise there will be no more museums, no more carpets, no more objects
01:52because sometimes objects disappear.
01:55But what we do, we receive the requests of young students in architecture,
02:06in Moroccan decorative arts, in paintings, etc.
02:10and there we let them visit on request or in groups of 5 people.
02:18The exhibition includes a model created especially for the exhibition by Monim Sabieh
02:25which presents the places in their ensemble, the public garden and the garden of the Villa Oasis
02:30as well as the Pierre Berger museum of Berber arts and the Yves Saint Laurent Marrakech museum.
02:35As well as maps, plans and other documents in relation to the city of Marrakech of yesterday and today
02:40allow visitors to discover the history and evolution of this unique garden.
02:45Internationally recognized as one of the most beautiful gardens in the world,
02:49the Majorelle garden in Marrakech ranks among the most visited sites in Morocco.
02:53In 2023, more than 1.2 million visitors have explored this magical place in the kingdom.
03:00Alexis Sornin is the director of the Yves Saint Laurent museum.
03:05We are today in front of the Villa Oasis in the Oasis garden which is adjacent to the public garden of the Majorelle garden
03:13and we invited you to come here today as part of the centenary of the Majorelle garden, 1924-2024
03:21and more precisely around an exhibition entitled Majorelle garden, who are we?
03:27Since this exhibition in the temporary gallery of the Yves Saint Laurent museum from July 29 to February 2, 2025
03:38offers the history of the places, that is to say the history of this garden which begins behind me by the construction of this city in 1924
03:46and which does not end today in 2024 but which continues with new projects.
03:50What we wanted to say and tell in this exhibition is the history of the places, of this Majorelle garden,
03:57of the Villa Oasis garden which is sometimes open to the public
04:02and then of the two museums that were established in 2011 and 2017.
04:08In 2011, the Pierre Berger des Arts Berbers museum, in 2017 the Yves Saint Laurent museum in Marrakech.
04:16In fact, what we wanted to do was to tell the complexity of the places in a long time
04:20and to show the whole community that works in these places, about 200 collaborators,
04:26the largest number are Moroccan and Moroccan colleagues,
04:30to show the collective, the community, the people, the specificities, the know-how
04:35which all together make the places, of course, but animate the places, whether the gardens or the museums,
04:41under the banner, under the aegis of the Majorelle garden.
04:44And as for the Yves Saint Laurent exhibition and the comic strip La Villaine Lulu,
04:51the result of a new collaboration between the Yves Saint Laurent museum and the Yves Saint Laurent Paris museum,
04:55it opened on 11 July 2024 in the gallery of photography of the Yves Saint Laurent museum.
05:01The reader therefore follows the adventures of a little girl, La Villaine Lulu,
05:05during 24 stories such as Lulu at school or the year Lulu.
05:10Lulu, always dressed in the same way, she is accompanied by her pet, a white rat,
05:16and this comic strip comes out of the ordinary and stands out from the usual themes of the exhibitions
05:22that this magnificent space houses. We listen again to Madison Cox and Alexis Sorna.
05:28Any institution, like ours or others, to live, we must always wonder what we are doing,
05:37for whom we are doing this, what is our role towards the public.
05:42And the question, for example, precisely for the live broadcast of the New York operas,
05:50which is a passion of Pierre Berger. He was director of the Paris opera for years.
05:56The little I know of the opera is thanks to him. It was a real passion that he had.
06:03And besides, the auditorium at the Yves Saint Laurent museum, which bears his name,
06:08the Pierre Berger auditorium, was designed to be able to do live broadcasts.
06:13Next to the temporary gallery where the exhibition is presented,
06:18there is a space that we call the gallery of photography and drawing,
06:22which is between the auditorium and the cafeteria,
06:25in which once a year we make a different thematic proposal.
06:29In July 2024, we wanted to exhibit a less well-known part of Saint Laurent's work,
06:35under the title Yves Saint Laurent and the comic strip.
06:39The title of this comic strip, which is called La Vilaine Lulu,
06:43which is a fictional character that Saint Laurent began to draw in 1956,
06:47when he was 20 years old and was working for the Christian Dior house in Paris.
06:51I was hoping that after hours of work, he would draw this character on small sheets of paper,
06:57in the form of 24 stories or 24 faces of this character, Vilaine Lulu,
07:04which is inspired by a colleague of Saint Laurent, then working at Dior, a certain Jean-Pierre Frère,
07:10who in the evening liked to dress up.
07:12Thank you, dear viewers, for your loyalty.
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