{"id":22585,"date":"2025-09-09T15:43:50","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T13:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jousse-entreprise.com\/art-contemporain\/?post_type=oeuvres&#038;p=22585"},"modified":"2025-09-09T15:43:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T13:43:50","slug":"bain-de-minuit","status":"publish","type":"oeuvres","link":"https:\/\/www.jousse-entreprise.com\/art-contemporain\/en\/oeuvres\/bain-de-minuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Bain de minuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2025<\/p>\n<p>oil on wood<\/p>\n<p>160 x 160 cm<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 4\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p data-start=\"53\" data-end=\"266\">This painting was created as part of a commission for the exhibition <em data-start=\"122\" data-end=\"132\">Copistes<\/em>, in exceptional collaboration with the Louvre Museum, presented at the Centre Pompidou-Metz from June 14, 2025 to February 2, 2026.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"268\" data-end=\"641\">The Centre Pompidou-Metz is devoting a unique exhibition to the practice of copyists. Copying is at the very heart of classical tradition: copying after the masters, learning their techniques, their canons, their narratives, absorbing their expertise, making their mastery our own\u2014this is a path to knowledge and creation, from the most academic to the most contemporary.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"643\" data-end=\"901\">Madeleine Roger-Lacan and the other artists received from the two associate curators, Donatien Grau and Chiara Parisi, the following invitation:<br data-start=\"787\" data-end=\"790\" \/>\u201cStarting from the work of your choice, preserved in the collections of the Louvre Museum, imagine its copy.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Text by Madeleine Roger-Lacan:<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"941\" data-end=\"1332\">2015.<br data-start=\"950\" data-end=\"953\" \/>Nude, F. picks up the guitar lying around and caresses a few chords. I photograph his back; in the half-light a glow outlines his shoulder, and the delicate line of his stomach reflects on the soundboard of the instrument he holds tight against himself. I think of Ingres\u2019s <em data-start=\"1227\" data-end=\"1247\">Bather with a Lute<\/em>. What to do with this image? It slips into one of the stacks of my digital memory.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1334\" data-end=\"1618\">2025.<br data-start=\"1343\" data-end=\"1346\" \/>The Centre Pompidou-Metz invites me to copy a work from the Louvre.<br data-start=\"1413\" data-end=\"1416\" \/>I think of Sylvia Sleigh, who in 1973 replaced the female bodies of <em data-start=\"1484\" data-end=\"1502\">The Turkish Bath<\/em> with six male models. When Sleigh was born in 1916, a woman had just painted a nude man for the very first time*.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1620\" data-end=\"1717\">* Suzanne Valadon, <em data-start=\"1640\" data-end=\"1654\">Adam and Eve<\/em>, 1909, Paris, Centre Pompidou, Mus\u00e9e national d\u2019art moderne.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1719\" data-end=\"2155\">Ingres painted <em data-start=\"1734\" data-end=\"1752\">The Turkish Bath<\/em> at the end of his life. It is a retrospective painting: the back of the <em data-start=\"1825\" data-end=\"1843\">Valpin\u00e7on Bather<\/em>, the fingers of Madame Moitessier Seated, the undulation of Ang\u00e9lique&#8230; This genius of collage positions his motifs within a rectangular frame that, in the course of painting, transforms into this mythical tondo. He becomes that mad chess player, modifying, shifting, adding, erasing his teeming composition.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2157\" data-end=\"3516\">Ingres, now it is my turn to copy you. I dig through my piles of images. Photoshop is my chessboard. F. will play the role of the bather with a guitar, C., with his head thrown back, will echo that stranded female head on the right side of the painting. The photo of E. on his unicorn float is my bather lounging in the hammam pool. This pool turns into a swimming pool in the background.<br data-start=\"2545\" data-end=\"2548\" \/>The dancer behind him? C. again, and his beautiful muscular body in motion. And that sequence of three indecently sensual women to the right of the bather? C., D., and L., all three lying down, their bodies turning and resting, vulnerable and desirable.<br data-start=\"2801\" data-end=\"2804\" \/>These are my own motifs; I take liberties with your composition, Jean-Auguste-Dominique, but it remains my matrix. That frieze of women at the back of your canvas\u2014why not replace it with the ancient wrestling bas-reliefs I copied at the Louvre?<br data-start=\"3048\" data-end=\"3051\" \/>I remain within your frame, which tenderly encloses this saturated fantasy. Will there be a three-dimensional assemblage of these disparate images? Or will painting smooth over the temporal layers colliding in this imaginary space?<br data-start=\"3282\" data-end=\"3285\" \/>I am about to plunge into the half-light of memory. Twilight falls; desire has left the flesh and takes refuge in my brushes, my scissors, in the staging of a night where men\u2019s bodies offer themselves and contemplate one another.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"3518\" data-end=\"3539\">Photo Marc Domage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":22583,"menu_order":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-22585","oeuvres","type-oeuvres","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Madeleine Roger-Lacan | Bain de minuit | Jousse-entreprise | Art Contemporain<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Madeleine Roger-Lacan, Bain de minuit, 2025, oil on wood, 160 x 160 cm, unique - galerie Jousse Entreprise, Paris\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jousse-entreprise.com\/art-contemporain\/en\/oeuvres\/bain-de-minuit\/\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"fr_FR\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Madeleine Roger-Lacan | Bain de minuit | Jousse-entreprise | Art Contemporain\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Madeleine Roger-Lacan, Bain de minuit, 2025, oil on wood, 160 x 160 cm, unique - 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