AUGUST 2 (NOON TO 6PM) ONLY : COZETTE DE CHARMOY "THE COLOSSAL LIE (AT THE AGE OF FAKE NEWS)"
LA PLAQUE TOURNANTE (composers and sound artists FRÉDÉRIC ACQUAVIVA and LORÉ LIXENBERG) are happy to present every first Saturday of the month (from April 5 to Dec 6) a series of exhibitions and events at THE OUTSIDERS GALLERY in London, after their initial location in Berlin-Neukölln. LA PLAQUE TOURNANTE supports the fight of all invisible, disappeared and marginalised people, especially AVANT-GARDE artists that are forgotten or still unknown.
COZETTE DE CHARMOY was born in 1939 in Westminster, London, to a French (Breton) father from Mauritius and an English mother of Russian origin. She also has Canadian nationality. Cozette has lived and worked in London, Canada, Switzerland and Paris, where she is now located. Painter, graphic artist, poet, she was a friend of LEONARD COHEN (who wrote a song for her), WILLIAM BURROUGHS, BRION GYSIN, HENRI CHOPIN (who published her from 1966 in his seminal magazine OU). In 1972, she started her own artists book publishing company EDITIONS OTTEZEC with her husband and in 1973, her first graphic novel "The True Life of Sweeney Todd" was published by Stefan and Franciszka THEMERSON at The Gaberbocchus Press.
LA PLAQUE TOURNANTE is proud to produce COZETTE DE CHARMOY NEW SOLO SHOW IN LONDON, 70 YEARS exactly after her work was first publicly exhibited when she was just 15 years old held and living in STOKE NEWINGTON SCHOOL. Alongside works dating from 1966 to 1982, the 31 plates of the deluxe portfolio of "THE COLOSSAL LIE" (her prophetic political graphic novel published by Henri Chopin in 1974) will be displayed in their entirety for the first time in London.
AT 5PM, COME AND TALK WITH COZETTE DE CHARMOY (+ TOM EVANS and DEBRA KELLY)!
COME IN YOUR MASSES ON AUG 2ND!