Le Cabaret Voltaire

Bibliothèque Forney, 1 rue du Figuier

Free

Meeting at the Forney Library with the screenwriter José-Louis Bocquet and Kent, illustrator and colorist, authors of a graphic novel noted for a little-known episode in art history.\n\nIn a hundred-odd days in 1916 in Zurich, a troupe of artists occupies the Cabaret Voltaire and shakes up all the codes of the old world. Bocquet & Kent offer the entirely new account of the genesis of the Dada movement and of contemporary artistic revolutions.\n1916, at the heart of a Europe in flames, a group of young artists proclaims nonconformity and the revolt of the senses. Each evening Dad…