Day of ciné-musique

Patrick Mullins was born in 1951 in Alabama. He graduated from The Juilliard School with his degrees in piano. He studied under Nadia Boulanger in Paris in 1970-1972, and started a career as a pianist and a composer, which he suddenly interrupted in the late 1980s. Since then, in voluntary seclusion in his Greenwich Village apartment, he began a vast literary and poetic project, including autobiographical elements, a sort of portrait of contemporary America, whose cultural decline is for him a source of enchantment and despair. In between the two « Ciné-Musiques » with Christian Pellet, he produced World Trade Aporia, a CD of piano music with a text after Jacques Derrida, and a concert at New York's Steinway Hall in 2003.

Christian Pellet, born in New York in 1964, worked as a psychologist for several international organisations before he became a portrait painter and a publisher. He is currently Secrétaire de la Collection Le savoir suisse. Deep Tropical Ciné-Musique (art&fiction, Lausanne and New York, 2000) was the first trace of his collaboration with writer and musician Patrick Mullins. Day of Ciné-Musique presents recent portraits inspired by contemporary American drama and its 1950 to 1970 Hollywood cinematographic versions. The association of these images and the text sheds a particular light on the vision a painter can have regarding fiction.