Let the Entrancing… The figures depicted by Fer- At the Maison d’Auguste Comte, the seance beginnand Khnopff (1858-1921) are as engagingItalian actor and choreographer Gustavo today as ever. In the works on view at the Giacosa summons ghosts with works from Petit Palais, the Belgian symbolist envi- his collection, in particular a set of anony- IN PARIS AND THE sioned diffuse feminine presences, inef- mous photographs as spectacular as they PROVINCES, THE ART fable yet enduring. Equally enigmatic, the are unsettling. Lastly, at the MANAF in WORLD COMMUNES WITH canvases and drawings in the group show Laval, Ody Saban (born 1953) pays homage TH E SPIRITS: LONG-DEAD at Galerie Christian Berst are the work of to Lilith, the world’s first woman in medieval ANCESTORS, UNKNOWN instinctive mediums—like Jean Perdrizet Jewish lore. The Turkish painter captures GODS… (1907-1975), who invented machines for the figures that emerge from his subcon- communicating with the dead and made scious,sometimes on ten-meter scrolls. enigmatic sketches of flying saucers. In France this spring, the phantoms reign. “FERNAND KHNOPFF, LE MAÎTRE DE L’ÉNIGME”, jusqu’au 17 mars, avenue Winston-Churchill, Petit Palais, Paris VIII .e petitpalais.paris.fr “AU-DELÀ : ART SPIRITE ET DES CONFIN S”, du 7 mars au 13 avril, galerie Christian Berst, 3, passage des Gravilliers, Paris III . christianberst.come Page de gauche : Du silence, Fernand Khnopff, 1890 (Petit Palais, Paris). Ci‑dessus, de gauche à droite et de haut “FANTÔMES”, du 9 au 17 mars, en bas : Sans titre, Alexandro Garcia, 2018 (galerie Christian maison d’Auguste Comte, 10, rue Berst, Paris). Sans titre, anonyme (États-Unis), Monsieur-le-Prince, ParisVI .e vers 1965 (maison d’Auguste Comte, Paris). augustecomte.org Sans titre (détail), Ody Saban, 1979 (MANAF, Laval). “ODY SABAN”, du 30 mars au 23 juin, Musée d’art naïf et d’arts singuliers (MANAF), place de la Trémoille, Laval. musees.laval.fr AIR FRANCE MADAME / 77