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Photographers Hector Mediavilla and Baudouin Mouanda at Musée Dapper in Paris: L’univers de la SAPE.
“Their canon of saints reads: Pierre Cardin, Roberto Cavalli, Dior, Fendi, Ferré, Gaultier, Gucci, Jourdan, Miyake, Prada, Saint Laurent, Versace, Yamamoto. A typical ballad runs: “Listen my love. On our wedding day/The label will be Torrente/The label will be Giorgio Armani/The label will be Daniel Hechter/The label for the shoes will be J. M. Weston.” Brussels, their shopping mecca, is referred to in Congolese as Lola, meaning paradise.
These are sapeurs, acolytes of a 25-year-old movement called la SAPE—La Societé des Ambianceurs et des Personnes Élégantes (aka Kitendi, the religion of the cloth)—that revolves around the possession of the most expensive, most luxurious, most extravagant fashion in the world. Followers of SAPE wear $10,000 jackets and $500 shoes, but these mostly young Congolese men otherwise barely eke out a living in the rubble of Kinshasa and Brazzaville or the ghettos of Paris and Brussels, washing dishes or washing bodies, and sometimes selling their own.” -Anna Weinberg
October 15, 2009 - July 11, 2010
L’univers de la SAPE at Musée Dapper
35 bis Rue Paul Valéry
75016 Paris
tel: 01.45.00.91.75
Metro: Victor Hugo, Charles de Gaulle - Etoile
RER: Charles de Gaulle - Etoile
M, Wed-Sun: 11am-7pm
Closed on Tuesday
Roumanian collage artist Ion Barladeanu in Paris at Galerie Anne de Villepoix: ‘Now I feel like a prince, says Barladeanu. A pauper can become a prince. But he can go back to being a pauper too.’
“Ion Barladeanu is on his way to becoming an important contemporary artist, but in May 2008 he was still an anonymous tramp on the streets of Bucharest.”
“He created many of his collages from scraps of discarded magazines during and after the Communist regime of Nicolae Ceausescu.” “His collages are being hailed as politically brave and culturally irreverent.” “Barledeanu describes himself as a ‘director’ of his own films and considers each collage to be a movie in itself.”
February 27 - April 10, 2010
Ion Barladeanu at Galerie Anne de Villepoix
43 Rue de Montmorency
75003 Paris
tel: 01.42.78.32.24
Metro: Arts-et-Métiers
Tu-Sat: 10am-7pm
Closed on Sunday and Monday
French emergency numbers
24-hour EMERGENCY NUMBERS:
SAMU Hospital Mobile Intensive Care Units (Life-threatening medical emergencies)…………………………………………………………………….15
Police Secours (Any infraction requiring police intervention)……………..17
Pompier Fire Department (Fire, accidents and medical emergencies)…..18
Other emergency numbers and help lines:
SOS Médecin 24-hour on-call doctors……………………………………3624 or 01.47.07.77.77 (Paris)
SOS Psychiatrie 24-hour psychiatric emergencies…………01.47.07.24.24 or 01.40.47.04.47 (Paris)
Samu Social - Secours aux sans abris 24-hour homeless rescue……115 or 0800.306.306
Violence Conjugale Domestic violence (Victim and/or witness)………3919
Centre Anti-poison Poison control……………………………01.40.05.48.48 or 01.40.05.45.45 (Paris)
Urgences Dentaires Dental emergency……………..01.43.37.51.00 (Paris)
Urgences Pédiatriques à domicile Pediatrics emergency ………………… 01.43.94.35.01 (Paris)
Enfance et Partage Child abuse information center ………….0800.051.234
SOS Inceste, Viol familial Incest information center………..04.76.47.90.93
SOS Enfants Disparus Missing children information center…0810.012.014
SOS Femme Battue Battered women information center…..01.30.63.82.50
Viol Femme Information Rape information center……………0800.059.595
Contraception, IVG, MST Birth Control, Abortion, STDs information center………………………………………………………………..0820.331.334
Drogue, Tabac, Alcool Info Service Drugs, tobacco and alcohol information center………………………………………….113 or 0800.231.313
Alcooliques Anonymes 24-hour AA………………………….01.43.25.75.00
Urgence Psychiatrique Psychiatric emergency……………..01.45.65.30.00
SOS suicide Suicide prevention……………………………….01.40.50.34.34
Discriminations Raciales Racial discriminations (Victim and/or witness)…………………………………………………………………………114
Croix Rouge Red Cross………………………………………….0800.858.858
SOS Carte Bleue/Visa/Eurocard/Mastercard volée ou perdue 24-hour Lost or stolen bank cards………………………………………..0892.690.880 or 0 892.705.705
SOS Help Line English speaking support service in France..01.46.21.46.46
Izis: Paris des Rêves at the Hotel de Ville in Paris.
In 1951, Izis was one of the five French photographers, along with Brassaï, Doisneau, Ronis and Cartier-Bresson, to be exhibited at the MoMA in New York. Today Paris City Hall is paying tribute to Izis with a major retrospective showcasing 270 photographs, books, magazines and documentary footage. This show focuses on his Parisian work.
January 20 - May 29, 2010
Izis at the Hotel de Ville
5 Rue Lobau
75004 Paris
tel: 01.42.76.40.40
Metro: Hotel-de-Ville
M-Sat: 10am-7pm (will open at 1.30pm only on March 2 and March 30)
Closed on Sunday and holidays.
Birdy Nam Nam in Paris at Social Club.
Birdy Nam Nam - The Parachute Ending
February 26, 2010 - 8pm
Birdy Nam Nam dj set at Social Club
142 Rue Montmartre
75002 Paris
tel: 01.40.28.05.55
Metro: Bourse
Festival Super Mon Amour! in Paris at Social Club, La Cigale, La Maroquinerie, Point Ephémère.
February 17, 2010 - 11pm
KOUDLAM + BOT’OX Live + QOSO DJ SET + SHIT BROWNE
at Social Club
142 Rue Montmartre
75002 Paris
tel: 01.40.28.05.55
Metro: Bourse
February 18, 2010 - 8pm
The xx at La Cigale
120 Boulevard Rochechouart
75018 Paris
tel: 01.49.25.81.75
Metro: Pigalle, Anvers
February 19, 2010 - 8pm
CHOKEBORE + LE PRINCE MIIAOU at La Maroquinerie
23 Rue Boyer
75020 Paris
tel: 01.40.33.35.05
Metro: Gambetta, Menilmontant
February 20, 2010 - 11pm
GLASS CANDY live + DESIRE live + LOGO dj set + CHATEAU MARMONT live + MONDKOPF live + FUTON dj set + CHEVALIER PLAY dj set
at Le Point Ephémère
200 Quai de Valmy
75010 Paris
tel: 01.40.34.02.48
Metro: Jaurès, Louis Blanc
February 21, 2010 - 8pm
MUGISON solo + TUNE YARDS + MUMFORD & SONS
at La Maroquinerie
23 Rue Boyer
75020 Paris
tel: 01.40.33.35.05
Metro: Gambetta, Menilmontant