Talisman - Pour Jorge Luis Borges

Thursday 13 October 2016 to Sunday 30 October 2016

Centre Culturel du Manoir de Cologny
place du Manoir 4
Cologny 1223
Switzerland

Opening October 12 at 18:00

The Centre Culturel welcomes students of HEAD – Genève by offering to invest the Manoir de Cologny. On the occasion of the thirtieth anniversary of the death of Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986), a famous writer resident of Geneva shore, the exhibition brings together a series of productions made by young artists. It forms the heart of a network of projects dedicated to a figure that still haunts the history of our city. Holding an important collection of borgésiennes works, the Fondation Martin Bodmer is participating in this exhibition to pay tribute to the Argentine author.

A proposal from Yann Chateigné

With Marilou Bal, Marie Bette, Christian Bili, Yannis Claude Christ, Guillaume Dénervaud, Rémi Dufay, Luca Guizzo, Paul Hutzli, Aurélie Jacquet, Tayeb Kendouci, Samuel Lecocq and Galaxia Wang.

Saturday, October 15 at 16: 00: guided tour by the curator of the exhibition, Yann Chateigné

Sunday, October 16 at 16: 00: screening of Ana Simon, The Geneva Borges (36 min.)

Wednesday, October 19 at 18: 00: readings, screenings and performance by the artists in the exhibition

A partnership between the CCManoir, the Geneva School of Art and Design and the Martin Bodmer Foundation.

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Talisman - Pour Jorge Luis Borges
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