Jean Vodaine Exhibition
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The Verlaine media library presents a major exhibition about Jean Vodaine, inviting visitors to immerse themselves in the richness of his abundant work through a step-by-step journey at the heart of Vodaine's creations.
This exhibition is organized as a tribute to the poet, engraver, and typographer Jean Vodaine. Jean Vodaine (1921-2006), born Friedrich Vladimir Kaucic in Slovenia, was a poet, editor, and artist living in Lorraine. Trained as a worker, he went through various manual jobs before devoting himself to artisanal printing and painting. At the end of the 1940s, he 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, a magazine with international resonance that he published alone for twenty-two years. He notably published Arrabal, Henry Miller, Léopold Sedar Senghor, Ernest Hemingway, Allen Ginsberg, as well as engravings by his friends Gaston Chaissac and Jean Dubuffet.
Passionate, he said about his artistic works: "I do not make art, I make things. I make things to better serve poetry."
Good to know
In partnership with Forum-IRTS de Lorraine, Le Puzzle, Ville de Thionville, Centre national de littérature – Luxembourg, 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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