#Sylvana Lorenz

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"Égéries" de Pierre Cardin

Un petit florilège des œuvres de Phil de Rodrigue accessibles et a la vente !

Galerie Depardieu 09 66 89 02 74

Sylvana prêtresse du Temple lunaire de Pierre Cardin.

Les Immortels.

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Égéries de PIERRE CARDIN Exposition de robes créées par Pierre Cardin pour Jeanne Moreau & Sylvana Lorenz

Un omaggio al grande stilista francese di origine italiana Pierre Cardin a due anni dalla sua morte.

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His striking portraits of Filipino-Italian families reveal the stories of many Pinays living in Europe

The first Filipino photographer to show at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris, the Laguna-born Ryan Arbilo chanced upon another subject while pursuing a series on mixed marriages.

As a kid, Ryan Arbilo marvelled at the transformation of the houses in his neighborhood. Seemingly overnight, wooden houses turned into concrete. A second floor took the place of a rusty tin roof. On the pavement out front, suddenly, a shiny car. The households who saw these apparitions had a common denominator: remittances from Saudi, Hong Kong, or London.

Today, Arbilo is a photographer based in Paris, France. Marked by such memories from his childhood, he seeks to explore the other side of these success stories, the underbelly of the Filipino dream. Every facet of this subject he knows personally, having been estranged from his OFW mother from an early age. “I eventually joined my mother in Paris,” the Laguna native shares, “I would shadow her at work; help her clean houses, do the dishes.” In France, he saw the huge gap between a French salary and the Filipino minimum wage, but also the physicality of the work demanded and the emotional toll of living away from one’s family.

“I wanted to pay homage to my mother, and on a bigger scale, to highlight the conditions of the Filipinos here in Europe,” says Arbilo. “The Filipino spirit. Our work ethic, strength, and dedication.”

His first series entitled Chicken Hands is a collection of portraits of Filipina women doing domestic work in France, photographed with their hands on their laps, close to the lens. At times pockmarked, calloused, and wrinkled, they resemble chicken feet. Les mains qui travaillent. Hands that have known work. The same hands who have built houses with pearlescent tiled bathrooms and sent countless cousins to university.

“Some French people appreciate Filipinos because of our hard work and discretion. These women, they rarely talk. With my photographs, I wanted to put the spotlight on them, to show their faces, share their story and give them a voice,” Arbilo claims. That he did. In 2014, his Chicken Hands was exhibited in the Théâtre des Variétés in Monaco. Two years later, he was invited to show at the Maison Européen de la Photographie in Paris, making Arbilo the first Filipino to ever show in the esteemed photography museum.

Following this success, he journeyed to Italy in search of more chicken hands. What he found instead is a different story. Love stories. Arbilo met Filipina women with Italian husbands, and their mestizo children. Does this mean that there are more Filipinas married to Italians, than there are Filipinas married to Frenchmen? Probably not. However, the commonalities between Filipino and Italian culture perhaps helped build a strong base for these relationships. Both cultures put a premium on strong family ties and exhibit a deep dedication to the Catholic faith and good food.

His Italian sojourn gave birth to his second photo series, Halo Halo: portraits of Filipino-Italian couples in the dining table with their mixed-race children. Captured in black and white, the photographs feel somber, solemn almost. Each face is a puzzle to decipher, with the trinkets in the backdrop serving as clues. A cluster of gondolas allude to warm winters by the Venetian lagoon. A cup of gelato topped with a honey-dipped waffle hints at a family member with a sweet tooth. A top-shelf bubbly, perhaps a suggestion of material comfort? A festive personality? Does the placement of cutlery point to someone’s left-handedness? A twinkle in the eye, true love? A half-hearted smile, a soft frown, a skewed posture, no hands on the table— enigmas I tried to quietly decode the night of the show’s opening in early March at IESA, an art gallery exhibiting Arbilo’s photographs.

Funky art students with their colored hair, journalists with their camera crew, fellow artists with their agents, and people from the Philippine Embassy roamed about. In the corner, a table with several bottles of wine, iced tea, and an inviting box of warm empanadas. The room is buzzy from a great turnout. The curator Oriana Llamas shares the motivation behind the exhibit title: “Ryan’s portraits show different blended families, like the Filipino dessert halo-halo, composed of fruits, ice, and even savory ingredients, the end result is something delicious.”

True enough, some stories are sweet, but mostly they are logical (colleagues who grew closer after months of working side by side), circumstantial (an onlooker mesmerized when a Filipina dancer hands him a pot of uncooked rice, a crucial part

of a Northern Mindanao folk dance), funny (“At first, I thought he was always angry, then I learned that’s just how Italians speak.”), sometimes even guided by the invisible hand of God.

Cecilia Hormachuelos left the Philippines for Italy, heeding a calling to be a nun. One day, kneeling down in front of the tabernacle, she was praying, asking God to pave her way to the nunnery. If this is not on His will, she told God further, just give her a man instead. After walking out of the church, she met Alberto Camarotto. Pleasantries were exchanged, but mobile numbers were not. The week after, he was at church again, and she agreed to a date. Today, they live with their three children, in a house overlooking a vineyard in Northern Italy.

“Ryan’s work is important because it is socio-political and it offers representation of his community in Europe,” claims Sylvana Lorenz, celebrated gallerist and Arbilo’s mentor. “Halo-Halo spins a more optimistic angle, as it follows different Filipinas who have claimed their rights to happiness, to be surrounded by a family, to be held, to be loved, to be a woman,” she continues, smiling, before sharing her conclusion: “Faites l’amour, pas le ménage.” Make love, not housework.

Originally published by ANCx Philippines

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"Égéries " de Pierre de Cardin par Phil de Rodrigue du 19 Janvier au 23 Février 2023 à la Galerie Christian Depardieu.

Galerie Depardieu 09 66 89 02 74

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"Egeries" de Pierre Cardin.

Phil de Rodrigue & Sylvana Lorenz vous invitent :

Œuvres créées pour l'expo "Egeries" de Pierre Cardin, mettant en scène des créations uniques du dernier Empereur de la mode et qui ont paré ses deux muses Sylvana Lorenz et Jeanne Moreau Le vernissage aura lieu le 19 janvier 2023 à la Galerie Christian Depardieu 6 rue du Docteur Jacques Guidoni 06000 Nice et sera visible jusqu'au 25 février 2023

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Vous pourrez retrouver Sylvana Lorenz le Samedi 14 Mai 2022, sur Radio Arts Mada http://arts-mada.fr/ dans l'émission de Christian Lebon :"Talents en liberté" (a partir de 18 heure.)

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Il a été son Mentor, son Pygmalion, le grand amour de sa vie , elle nous en parle mieux que n'importe lequel de ses biographes dans "Madame Cardin" ! Vous l'aurez sûrement reconnue, il s'agit de Sylvana Lorenz ! (En plus une partie du livre est un thriller, mais dans le monde de la Mode !)

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Un portrait de Pierre Cardin réalisé par Victor Philippe alias Phil de Rodrigue ( https://www.instagram.com/philderodrigue/ );

illustration du livre "Madame Cardin" de Sylvana Lorenz.

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C'était il y a quelque jours, une interview de Sylvana Lorenz réalisée par Radio bleu Provence.

N'oubliez pas le Festival de Lacoste créé par Pierre Cardin.

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Dans "Madame Cardin" de Sylvana Lorenz, on découvre aussi les aspect sombres, j'ai envie de dire les aspects noirs, du monde de la Mode... (Noir au sens littéraire du terme, comme une série noire.)

Où comment la jalousie transforme la réalité en thriller ! L'on découvre aussi ce côté étrange de Pierre Cardin, avec ses non-dits qui pouvaient être mortels.

#PierreCardin #SylvanaLorenz #Mode #Fashion #Lecture #Livre #SalonduLivre #Monaco

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Je n'ai jamais aimé les portraits d'Helmuth Newton ! Peut-être à cause de leur aspect lapidaire; usage cher à sa génération d'idolâtres. Mais quand on lit le livre de Sylvana Lorenz: "Madame Cardin " on découvre un Pierre Cardin très éloigné de cet aventurier satanique figé sur le papier glacé du photographe de mode. Car l'histoire de Pierre Cardin est celle d'un petit émigré Italien chassé par la guerre et la misère vers cette France qui fut longtemps vecue comme un Eldorado. Lisez ce livre car c'est aussi l'histoire d'une grande réussite et d'un grand amour.

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"Madame Cardin" de Sylvana Lorenz.

"Pierre Cardin m'a légué ses mémoires ! A moi seule, l'homme secret a raconté sa vie par bribes, durant les trois décennies que j'ai passé à ses côtés." Ainsi commence ce récit ! Ce récit qui nous conte une réussite, celle d'un petit émigré Italien monté à Paris sans un sou ! "Lavarède avait cent sous pour faire le tour du monde" Celle de Pierre Cardin, l'Empereur de la mode ! Un récit raconté par la personne qui l'a le plus connu, Sylvana Lorenz; qui l'a aussi le plus aimé...

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Car c'est, pour le moment, le livre de l'année !

Il a été son Mentor, son Pygmalion, le grand amour de sa vie , elle nous en parle mieux que n'importe lequel de ses biographes dans "Madame Cardin" ! Vous l'aurez sûrement reconnue, il s'agit de Sylvana Lorenz ! (En plus une partie du livre est un thriller, mais dans le monde de la Mode !)