After the success of last year’s edition at the Bibliothèque Nationale de Paris, the exhibition Rose c’est Paris by Bettina Rheims and Segre Bramly, arrives in Florence, on show at the MNAF (Museo Nazionale Alinari della Fotografia- The Alinari National Museum of Photography) until the 27^th November 2011.

A sort of ménage à trois will be staged, allegorically and mysteriously mixing enigmatic and sensual shots by Bettina, almost like stagy filmed tableaux vivants, the DVD feature film by Bramly (French artist, writer and essayist, who often collaborated with Rheims for her works), and the visionary and surrealist Paris of Duchamp, Dali and Magritte in the background. The protagonist of the exhibition will be the eternal femininity of Rose, always spasmodically searching for her missing twin sister, a sort of  detective story, a hint for an initiatory search of the Other and the Self, a pretext to evoke various images and atmospheres. It will not be difficult to recognise the faces of famous women – Charlotte Rampling, Naomi Campbell, Monica Bellucci, Michèle Yeoh, Valèrie Lemercier – in an endless extension of Roses. The artist always wants her to be at the centre of the shots, which majestically portray the imaginative  Paris of the years between the two World Wars, with its streets, cafés, cabarets, metro, museums and abandoned factories. In this city, Rheims explains, “all the most innovating geniuses of art, literature and music, from  Picasso to Einstein, passing through Joyce, Stravinsky or Man Rayon, all met and lived in the few square metres of Montmartre and Montparnasse ”. 

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