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Exhibitions
‘The Enchantress’ director Tatjana Gürbaca casts her spell
Paris during the Commune, in ‘Le Temps des Cerises’
UNTIL JANUARY 15
Le Temps des Cerises. La Commune en Photographies The title of this show conjures the voice of French singer Yves Montand , but the subtitle recalls the 19th-century origins of the tender lament he made his own. The Paris Commune in Photographs engages the histories of France and of photography, showing the aftermath of violence and the technical limitations of a medium which could not yet picture violence itself. Paris, in modern yet Romantic ruin, staged scenes of heroism, tragedy and resistance, and these photos document the popular civil uprising and its brutal suppression in those days of obligatory long-exposure photography, before the dawn of mass media instantaneity. A superb show, any way you look at it. Photography Museum, Charleroi, www.museephoto.be More on www.thebulletin.be
UNTIL FEBRUARY 5
Le Modèle a bougé “The model moved again,” 19th-century French artist Edgar Degas is said to have remarked upon seeing yet another blurry portrait by his peer, the painter Eugène Carrière, who made smudging something of a trademark. This fascinating, wide-ranging exhibition examines ways in which 33 artists over the past 170 years have sought to capture movement in their work. And not just physical movement, which was Edward Muybridge’s focus in his pre-motion picture photographs, but also notions of fleeting time, changing moods, shifting interpersonal relationships and all other manner of instability. Six themes, 90 works in traditional and new media by great artists you’ll recognise and contemporary practitioners you soon will if you don’t already. Bam, Mons, www.bam.mons.be
UNTIL NOVEMBER 26
The Enchantress New production of Tchaikovsky’s four-act opera first performed in St Petersburg’s Marinsky Theatre in 1887. Passion, jealousy and political rivalry yield a rich royal drama in which a king is driven to kill his own son and the queen to murder the woman beloved by both her husband and her son. Flanders Opera musical director Dmitri Jurowski conducts the opera’s orchestra and chorus plus a superlative cast of Russian and Ukrainian singers; Tatjana Gürbaca, head of Germany’s Mainz Opera, returns to stage her third Tchaikovsky production in Flanders. Flanders Opera, Ghent until Nov 8 Flanders Opera, Antwerp, Nov 16-26 www.vlaamsopera.be
Henri Laurens’ ‘Femme allongée’ in ‘Le Modèle a bougé’