Gauguin

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani returns several times, between 2017 and 2020, to the same detail: the last painting Gauguin makes in Tahiti depicts a Breton village under snow1. He sees in it a sign that "one lives in representation": even at the far end of the world, the painter remains inhabited by images of the land he has left2. He cites this detail in his sessions on Nerval's Angélique, then in the Musicosophie cycle, where he presents Gauguin as an avant-gardist in connection with modern music3. In that same cycle, he describes the departure for Tahiti as a flight, which he relates to the death drive and to the question of happiness and unhappiness4. In painterly terms, he associates Gauguin with contour drawn by line, which he contrasts with gradation, in a session devoted to interpretation5. He also links him to Nerval, whose coloured water he calls "water à la Gauguin"6.

1. 1#2.6 Entre crise et guerre : Philosopher ?1 Aug 2017 · 1:42:27
2. 2#4.4 Angélique (de Nerval)15 Jan 2018 · 1:11:13
3. 3Musicosophie 3. Qu'appelle-t-on une musique moderne?3 Dec 2020 · 40:09
4. 4Musicosophie 5. Bonheur contre pulsion de mort en musique11 Dec 2020 · 50:34
5. 5Musicosophie 17. L'interprétation25 Mar 2021 · 39:59
6. 6#4 Nomade et sédentaire - Le cas Nerval4 Oct 2021 · 49:50

Summary produced automatically from 8 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.