CONFERENCE BY DOMINIQUE PAÏNI: TO BORROW, TO APPROXIMATE, TO COPY, TO DEVIATE, TO IMAGINE.
Conference "To borrow, to approximate, to copy, to deviate, to imagine" by curator Dominique Païni, as part of the exhibition "Keeping tale of current times | Jean-Luc Godard - Visual work". The conference will have simultaneous translation from French to Portuguese.

Jean-Luc Godard borrowed, copied, pirated and diverted the images of art from all eras: this was his methodology as a poet, who perceived “above all, outside philosophical methods, the intimate and secret relationships of things, correspondences and analogies” (Baudelaire). He also admired not only the methods, but the destinies of some great figures of ancient and modern art, from Eugène Delacroix to Paul Klee and Nicolas de Staël.
In retrospect, his films reveal, more clearly than at the time of their discovery, the imprint of the plastic arts contemporary to their making (Yves Klein, Hans Hartung, Robert Rauschenberg, Gerhard Richter, Alighiero Boetti, Ed Ruscha, Gérard Fromanger...) and translate, in an exceptional way, the metamorphoses of the second half of the 20th century and the first two decades of the 21st century. He was convinced that: “The only thing that survives an era is the art form it has created. No activity will become art before its epoch is over.”
If this permeability to the plastic arts of his time was partly unconscious - although he was curious about everything to do with images - contemporary art is inspired, conversely, by Godardian iconographic manipulations: color saturations, the rhythm of appearance and disappearance, fusion and fission.
The conference will comment on a selection of Godard's visual works (paintings and sculptures) chosen without fear of similarities that are both more obvious and more hidden: borrowings or influences that fertilize the work of a filmmaker who, as early as 1960, declared that he worked as a painter.