Manon of the Spring
Artipoeus interviews French ingenue Manon Gineste about her first time exhibiting
Ever wondered what it’s like to have an art exhibit — to have someone see the beauty in your creative soul and want to share it with the world, hang it in a gallery and talk about it to complete strangers? The French call it exposer, which isn’t at all terrifying, and the young artist Manon Gineste experienced just that at her very first art exhibit earlier this year in Paris, no less.
She’s completely self-taught — auto-didacte, as you say in French — but her stark, powerful portraits have the intense, sure lines of a young Kandinsky, and are as emotional and poignant as the work of Egon Schiele. Her work was exposee’d to the public earlier this year in her first exhibition ever, a solo show at L’Amitie Rit in Montreuil.
I was in Paris in April, and had a chat with Manon in the cozy new studios of World Radio Paris, with the help of the very talented Thomas Shamuyarira, sound engineer on this episode and resident hero at WRP.
You can see Manon’s work in her upcoming exhibition opening the 19th of May, at Théâtre de verre, located at 12 Rue Henri Ribière at Place des Fetes in the 19ème arrondissement in Paris. And you can follow her work on Instagram at @avril_1970 — a true Manon of the Spring!
Special thanks to Thomas Shamuyarira for his audio engineering, stationmaster David Blanc, and the beautiful studios of World Radio Paris.
Music used in this episode is Jazzy Frenchy by Ben Sounds, used under Creative Commons and available for download as royalty free music at bensounds.com.
