Jean Vodaine Exhibition
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History
The Verlaine media library is hosting a major exhibition dedicated to Jean Vodaine, inviting visitors to immerse themselves in the richness of his prolific work through a step-by-step journey into his creative world. The exhibition is a tribute to the poet, engraver, and typographer Jean Vodaine. Jean Vodaine (1921-2006), born Friedrich Vladimir Kaucic in Slovenia, was a poet, publisher, and artist living in Lorraine. Trained as a laborer, he held various manual jobs before devoting himself to artisanal printing and painting. In the late 1940s, Jean Vodaine created his first magazine, Poésie avec nous, then Le Courrier de la poésie with Edmond Dune in 1951, La Tour aux puces and Dire in 1962, an internationally recognized magazine he published alone for twenty-two years. He notably published works by Arrabal, Henry Miller, Léopold Sedar Senghor, Ernest Hemingway, Allen Ginsberg, and prints by his friends Gaston Chaissac and Jean Dubuffet. Passionate about his art, he said: "I don't make art, I make things. I make things to better serve poetry."
Good to know
In partnership with Forum-IRTS de Lorraine, Le Puzzle, the City of Thionville, the National Literature Center – Luxembourg, and the Jean Vodaine association.
Automatically translated from French.
Where does it take place?
Bibliothèques Médiathèques de Metz
1 Place de la bibliothèque
57000 Metz
France
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