More from Le Cimetière Père-Lachaise, Paris (75): #1: Gerda Taro

'MEMORIAL

LIBERPRESS

2008

GERDA TARO (1910–1937)

A FIN QUE PERSONNE N'OUBLIE TA LUTTE

INCONDITIONNELLE POUR UNE MONDE MEILLEUR'

('So that no one forgets your non-conditional struggle for a better world')

Yes, although that better world seems increasingly unattainable. Gerda Taro is most noted for her photo-journalism, particularly during the Spanish Civil War. She was the photographer Robert Capa's partner. Her grave was designed by the sculptor Alberto Giacometti.

Jean Genet in Nottingham

The art gallery Nottingham Contemporary's summer (16 July 2011 – 2 October 2011) exhibition is entitled 'Jean Genet' as it is inspired by the French rebel writer, and it is in two 'Acts'.

Act 1 features work by Marc Camille Chaimowicz, and also includes sculptures (notably Man Pointing) and the portrait of Genet by Alberto Giacometti. Others works shown in Act 1 are by Tariq Alvi, Lukas Duwenhögger, Mathilde Rachet, and Wolfgang Tillmans.

Act 2 concentrates on Genet's later politically involved years, and features the film Nervus Rerum by The Otolith Group, which moves round Jenin refugee camp on the West Bank with readings from Genet's Prisoner of Love (Captif amoureux) and Fernando Pessoa's O Livro do desassossego (The Book of Disquiet). Lili Reynaud–Dewar's walls speak passages from Prisoner of Love and L'Ennemi déclaré (The Declared Enemy), with books by north African writers displayed, such as Nabile Farès's Le champ  des oliviers and Tahar Ben Jelloun's Harrouda. Act 2 also features work by André Acquart, Emory Douglas (Black Panther graphic work), Latifa Echakhch, Mona Hatoum, Glenn Ligon, Abdul Hay Mosallam, Gil J. Wolman, Akram Zaatari, and Carole Roussopoulos.