EN BREF > Lara Fabian rend hommage sur scène aux femmes qui l’ont influencée, de Piaf à Barbara, en passant par Nicoletta, Véronique Sanson, etc. -/Lara Fabian pays an on-stage tribute to the women who have influenced her, among them Piaf, Barbara. Au Nikaïa, le 19 décembre. www.nikaia.fr > L’Orchestre Régional de Cannes se met à l’heure américaine avec Gabriel Tacchino au piano et Michel Lethiec à la clarinette. Au programme : Gershwin, Bernstein et Copland. -/The Orchestre Régional de Cannes goes American with Gabriel Tacchino on piano and Michel Lethiec on clarinet, for a programme of Gershwin, Bernstein and Copland. Le 20 décembre à 16h, au Conservatoire de Nice, Tél. 04 93 48 61 10. > Guillaume Gallienne, sociétaire de la Comédie-Française qui fait aussi le pitre sur Canal +, sera sur la scène du Théâtre de Nice pour présenter son spectacle autobiographique, les 10 et 12 décembre. -/Guillaume Gallienne, the Comédie-Française member, is performing his autobiographical show AGENDA les rendez-vous du mois/what to do this month Lara Fabian. Guillaume Gallienne. peuplé notamment de minuscules squelettes : « des personnages, des êtres bien vivants, qui n’ont certes ni chair, ni muscles, mais qui sont en pleine forme et ont beaucoup d’activités » que l’artiste côtoie depuis… l’enfance – « une vision », se plaît-t-il à raconter… Quant à la notion du « très petit », prépondérante dans son œuvre, l’artiste lui-même a judicieusement répondu un jour : « Je ne fais pas petit, je fais loin ! » À méditer. -/Still clear in our memories is the very fine La vie de château exhibition that Philippe Favier put on at Château de Villeneuve as part of his 100-day artistic residence, courtesy of Vence town council, during which he worked there in a studio open to the public while lodging just opposite. Since then Favier has liked to spend his winters in Nice and the rest of his time in Saint-Etienne where he was born. Now the MAMAC, in Nice, has invited him to use the walls of its contemporary gallery to show Papeteries (Stationeries), an exhibition that again immerses us in the inventive and poetic world of this peerless draughtsman. The starting point ? Childhood and its buried treasures. Every morning on his way to school, the young Favier would stop and stare into the two huge windows of the Chevalier stationers and printers, the only shop on his route that sold the full range of artists'materials. "That's certainly what triggered my curiosity and recurrent obsessions, my gourmandise, for stationery and its by-products." Later came a long series of artworks – 150 displayed here – that Favier has produced on the most diverse supports, which he's been unearthing in second-hand shops and bric-a-brac sales for 25 years ; collecting used objects is a fundamental part of his work. Favier's world is complex and multi-faceted, peopled notably by miniscule skeletons, "characters, beings who are really alive, who might not have flesh or muscles but are in great formand do lots of things", and who have been part of the artist's life since childhood – "a vision" he likes to call them. As for the notion of "very small" that preponderates in his work, Favier once reposted : "I don't do small, I do far ! " Jusqu’au 31 janvier 2009, Nice, MAMAC, Promenade des Arts. Tél. 04 97 13 42 01. décembre 2009-janvier 2010 www.cotemagazine.com WHAT'S ON URBAN 113