Crossing Perspectives

From March 13 to April 19

Exhibition of a series of drawings by Valère Novarina, alongside the exhibition “Traces of Writing, Paintings, Reversal. Valère Novarina Invades the City,” currently on display at the Cité internationale de la langue française, Château de Villers-Cotterêts.

Considered one of the greatest contemporary poets and playwrights, Valère Novarina is also a renowned painter. This is evidenced by the solo exhibition currently being dedicated to him at the Cité de la langue française, Château de Villers-Cotterêts.

The Wagner Gallery invites you to discover a lesser-known aspect of his work through a selection of drawings, most of them done in ink. Indeed, drawing is a gestural and graphic extension of his thoughts, facilitating the back-and-forth between writing and painting.

The exhibition aims to create an intimate relationship with the power of line, of form in construction, of movement, of informal writing. The challenge is to demonstrate to what extent Valère Novarina’s drawings are like graphic impulses, a physical, dynamic, and fluid language, just like his texts.

Each drawing is a story in itself, with its own vocabulary, rhythm, and syntax.

Each drawing is the transcription of a dance of the hand, the primary organ of language.

Each drawing asserts itself as a force that inhabits space and simultaneously changes meaning.