Jean Vodaine Exhibition
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History
The Verlaine media library presents a major exhibition dedicated to Jean Vodaine, inviting visitors to immerse themselves in the richness of his work via a step-by-step journey into his creative universe. This exhibition is part of 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 worker, he worked in various manual trades before devoting himself to artisanal printing and painting. In the late 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 journal of international repute which he published alone for twenty-two years. He published works by 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 of his work: "I don't make art, I make things. I make things to better serve poetry."
Good to know
In partnership with the Forum-IRTS de Lorraine, le Puzzle, the City of Thionville, the Centre national de littérature – 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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