
SEMPE SENEQUIER
Between his Parisian and New York strolls, Jean-Jacques Sempé was able to depict the small, compartmentalized world of Saint-Tropez in the 1960s. With irony, the artist plays with the codes of this microcosm where being and appearing merge. His epicenter is surely the mythical Senequier café, institution of the "French Riviera" where one must see and be seen (always through his dark glasses). All similar, the characters are like sad clowns, who bathe in idleness without taking advantage of it.