Théâtre National de Bretagne
Direction Arthur Nauzyciel

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09 nov
— 10 dec 2020

EXHIBITION "CARNETS DE TOURNÉE"

ALBIN DE LA SIMONE

Exposition

Festival TNB

Artiste associé

In Rennes train station from 9 November to 10 December 2020 and on the TNB website from 13 to 21 November 2020.

Exhibition presented by the TNB and SNCF Gares & Connexions

This exhibition was initially designed for the Rennes train station in partnership with SNCF Gares & Connexions, echoing Albin de la Simone's creation Films fantômes, a performance combining concert and exhibition planned to be presented from 11 to 21 November as part of the Festival TNB.

Author, composer, and performing artist, his 5 albums have given him a deserved reputation in French chanson circles. His creativity and talent produce a sensitive, unusual song, full of delightful charm and impish humor, while giving rise to a subtle melancholy. He has worked with such artistic greats as Alain Souchon, Vanessa Paradis, Keren Ann, Moissec and others, as an accompanist, arranger, and producer. He continues to pursue numerous projects and collaborations with writers and plastic artists. Since 2017 he has produced two concerts for the TNB: one with Keren Ann for the 2017 Festival TNB and another based on music from his album L’Un de nous (2018); and in 2018, in residence with Valérie Mréjen, who wrote an original text, he adapted Camille Saint-Saëns’ Le Carnaval des animaux. He will return to the TNB in 2020 for Films fantômes (Phantom Movies), a live performance, combining a concert and an exhibition.

In this exhibition, he reveals, through his travel journals, a selection of drawings that show his life on tour, seen from backstage, stage... or trains!

The exhibition can also be seen in Rennes train station: as a sign of support and solidarity to artists and partner cultural institutions that are going through an unprecedented health context, SNCF Gares & Connexions goes ahead with hosting exhibitions in stations. More than ever places of life and culture in their own right – even though they remain suspended today – the stations are taking over to support creation to the general public.