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Who was Antoine Tudal?

When he was 13, he wrote the collection of poems Souspente, which would be illustrated by Georges Braque and prefaced by Pierre Reverdy – a work reissued in 2019 by Le Bruit du Temps with an original text by his sister, Anne de Staël.
A few years later, at Nicolas de Staël’s request, he produced a series of photographs of the painter in his studio.

Awarded with an Oscar for the film Les dimanches de Ville d’Avray (“Sundays and Cybele”) in 1962, he went on to collaborate with Orson Welles, Bertrand Blier and Jacques Prévert, to name but a few.

Having caught the attention of Raymond Queneau at Gallimard, he brought out his first novel Tempo with the publisher.

In the ’90s, he developed a passion for the circus, which he photographed using an aesthetic, rather than factual approach.

His photographic research on life’s pareidolia has led to a poetic, complex vision of the world, inciting us to bring his work to the general public.

It is this artist and his protean work that we want to bring to light, to allow as many people as possible to discover him.

About the film

Chronicle

par Lise Guéhenneux

Lise Guéhenneux divides her time between Paris and Marseille. Holder of a PhD in art(s) history, art critic (AICA).
Field of research: contemporary artist interviews.
Latest publications: Un atelier à soi – Jennifer Caubet, Cirva and edit. Empire Books, Paris, 2019 and Loin hop – Patrice Carré, Tombolo Presses, Nevers, 2020

par Philippe Durand

Philippe Durand was born in 1963. Plastic Artist, he lives in Paris. He is represented by the gallery Laurent Godin.