The city of Bayonne presents the exhibition “Lucien Clergue, Les Suds”, coproduced with l’Atelier Lucien Clergue thanks to the involvement of Yolande Clergue and her daughters Olivia and Anne Clergue. She gathered seventy-four black and white photos of nudes at the beach, graphic sands, the exuberant life of gypsies, and the afición and bullfighting in the arena’s game of shadow and light.
On view through January 2017, it establishes the central project of a new time in Bayonne’s cultural season, “Le Mois de la Photographie” [“The Month of Photography”], which is installed during the whole of November in the heart of the urban area, weaving in and out of streets, galleries, museums, and the shops of Bayonne . It is a wonderful opportunity to make some wonderful photographic discoveries and have unprecedented encounters with interesting people around the 8th art.
From April 2015, the DIDAM established itself as a temporary exhibition space on Bayonne’s right bank. It is gradually taking its rightful place in the local artistic landscape and, although open to art of all forms, has been drawing a program more and more focused on photography. As proof of this artistic line’s assertion, the 2016 season Donostia/ San Sebastian, European culture capital, offered an unprecedented opportunity to use the DIDAM as a space of privileged dialogue centered around photography with the Carlos Saura exhibitions “Traité de paix” [“Peace Treaty”] and “Jeu de balle” [“Ballgame”]. Following them is the large-scale exhibition of Lucien Clergue, who is closing the season with beauty and inspiration. Deceased in 2014, this emblematic figure, friend of Picasso and Jean Cocteau, founded the Festival International de la Photographie des Rencontres d’Arles with Michel Tournier.
Lucien Clergue, Les Suds
Curator : Anne Clergue
Through January 15, 2017
DIDAM
6 Quai de Lesseps
64100 Bayonne
France
