Exhibitions not to be missed in June

Originally from Greece, based in Isère, Komili exhibits at the Valérie-Eymeric gallery with Face au paysage , a very original work that illustrates her fascination for places in the making or abandoned (urban projects, quarries, etc.) that she perceives as landscapes that look at us and that she paints, after having photographed them, with a color palette that plays with shadows and lights, the contrast between rurality and urbanity and which also reveals the interweaving between the organic, the mineral and the vegetal. Strange or luminous landscapes thus appear without us really knowing if it is the vegetation that invades the place or, conversely, the habitat that blends into nature. We like the yellow and orange tones, the brick red like the ochre and the white of these unoccupied places like the blue and green gradients of a vegetation that invites us to question as well as to contemplate (until June 28).

A museum dedicated to puppetry, the MAM-Gadagne gives carte blanche to the Compagnie à, which specializes in object theater that also combines puppets, clowns, and actors. Directors Dorothée Saysombat and Nicolas Alline draw on their past shows, revealing their perception of humanity through unusual or crazy stagings of diverse objects and figures. All without being didactic and giving us the opportunity to tell our own stories. Between poetry, mystery, and tragicomedy, they evoke racism, colonialism, financial power, without forgetting the immense suitcase in which a pile of objects is amassed, illustrating their tours in France and abroad, reminding us that the world is a vast theatrical construction site that they never stop traveling ( Carte blanche to the Compagnie à - Laughter, the intimate, the political , until spring 2027).

Between fashion and dreams, between women and wild animals, this is the thin thread on which the MC2M gallery (Lyon ^2nd ) poses us with Mano à Mano , an exhibition where for each work two famous photographers have joined forces: André Carrara , specialist in fashion photography, known for his sublime work around the female body and Jan Gulfoss , painter and photographer who develops a work with theatrical, poetic and dreamlike stagings. Here they merge their artistic language, Carrara bringing the sensuality of his models and Gulfoss his fantasized vision of nature and a phantasmagorical bestiary to develop together new visual narratives. A surprising exhibition not to be missed! (Until June 16.)

The exhibition promises to be magnificent and we will talk about it again, the Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon offers a retrospective of the artist François Rouan (81 years old) around the theme of the imprint, which runs through his work from the marbled patterned drawings of the 1970s to the more recent works created for the future stained glass windows of the great refectory of the royal abbey of Fontevraud. At once painter, videographer, photographer, he deconstructed the traditional structure of the painting to open new avenues, inventing in particular under the influence of Matisse and his cut-out gouaches, his famous “braided” canvases. More than 140 works will be presented (paintings, drawings and photos). Please note: a meeting with François Rouan on June 27, and a day dedicated to his world on June 28, with workshops, an exceptional concert by the Percussions Claviers de Lyon combining the fugues of Jean-Sébastien Bach and the more contemporary music of Steve Reich, and the screening of some of his films ( Autour de l'empreinte , from May 30 to September 21).