The Public Information Library of the Center Pompidou is exhibiting for the first time manuscripts and numerous works from the library of the singer who died in 1991.
Rimbaud, Mallarmé, Huysmans, Oscar Wilde, Maupassant… Serge Gainsbourg’s library was that of a reader who loved poetry of course, but also essays, novels, biographies, art books… Without forget the “fana-mili” works and the detective novels: “when I take up a Black Series [publiée par Gallimard]it’s not going well, I’m doing anything” he explained in 1968 in a television program devoted to literature.
Good news for fans of Gainsbourg and for bibliophiles, the Public Information Library (BPI) of the Center Pompidou is exhibiting for the first time part of this library as well as manuscripts of the singer who died in 1991. “He was also a collector of small papers, autographs and paperolles, which testify to his daily report, meticulous and compulsive in writing“explains the BPI.
Beyond its library, the exhibition also shows Gainsbour’s creative process through a set of annotated manuscripts and typescripts.
From January 25 to May 8, 2023 at the Public Information Library of the Center Pompidou.
