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Where do we come from? Who are we? Where are we going? In the footsteps of Paul Gauguin, the enchanter.
At the crossroads of the 19ᵉ and 20ᵉ centuries, between Impressionism and modern art, Paul Gauguin left us a sumptuous and, in many ways, mysterious body of work.
What force drove him on his peregrinations, from Peru to Paris, from Brittany to Polynesia, between suffering and the quest for pleasure? How are we to understand his constant travels? What influences and transmissions fed his creation? How does this artist still speak to us today?
By comparing his work with his biographical and artistic background, as well as with his family history, Jean-Louis Le Run invites us to "search for the lost Self" of this brilliant artist with a complex and controversial personality.
Jean-Louis Le Run is a child psychiatrist and co-founder of the journal Enfances & psy (Éditions Érès), of which he was editor-in-chief for twenty-five years. The author of more than a hundred articles and numerous books, and an art enthusiast and sculptor himself, he is particularly interested in the influence of artists' childhoods on their work and in representations of childhood in art.
Conference organised by the Capcaval'Arts association.
