Maybe you met him for the first time on the front page of the New Yorker. Maybe you wondered who the man behind the delicate, subtly ironic sketches was… a man who must have known to make himself invisible, unnoticeable in order to make the poetry of our daily life so visible and noticeable in turn. He is to drawing what Doisneau is to photography, with bits of philosophy and playful psychoanalysis as his signature.
A longtime favorite of Left Bank art galleries, Jean-Jacques Sempé now enjoys his first Parisian retrospective at the Paris Town Hall, an exhibition site that your Hotel Louvre Marsollier already recommended to you in the past. Entitled “Bits of Paris and elsewhere”, the exhibition consists of over 300 original drawings and captions by Sempé.
No matter if you are discovering or rediscovering Sempé, you will be delightfully amused and questioned by each and every one of his bits of Paris.
Practical information:
“Sempé, Bits of Paris and elsewhere”
From October 21st to February 11th, 2011
Every day except Sundays from 10 am to 7 pm (last admission 6:15 pm)
Entrance free
Address: Hotel de Ville, Salle Saint Jean, 5 rue Lobeau, 75004 Paris – Métro Hotel de Ville – Tel. 01 42 76 51 53