The Serge Gainsbourg exhibition extended until September 3

Given the success of the exhibition Serge Gainsbourg, the exact word, with nearly 82,000 visits since its opening last January, the Bibliothèque publique d’information and the Maison Gainsbourg join forces to extend it until September 3, 2023.

Acclaimed by the press and the public who came in large numbers, the exhibition will thus be open to visitors, especially international ones, throughout the summer, free of charge. It allows visitors to discover works and unpublished archives from the collection of the Maison Gainsbourg, whose opening is scheduled for September 20.

The exhibition “Serge Gainsbourg, the exact word” plunges visitors into the literary landscape of the artist by welcoming them with a vast selection of works drawn from its heterogeneous library. It highlights the creation of his media “double”, Gainsbarre, a character straight out of his songs, in the tradition of  the literary doubles of the nineteenth century, from Oscar Wilde’s Portrait of Dorian Gray to Guy de Maupassant’s Horla. The documents and personal objects on display – manuscripts, typescripts, facsimiles, scores – associated with the unpublished film by Yves Lefebvre provide an insight into the artist’s writing and composition process and illustrate the tremendous productivity of the author.

Free guided tours of the exhibition are offered to the public every day at 5 p.m. except weekends and public holidays.

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To extend the visit, the public will finally be able to discover from September 20 the legendary home of Serge Gainsbourg at 5 bis rue de Verneuil, and opposite, at number 14, a museum which gathers more than 450 original objects: manuscripts, works and emblematic objects or clothing and jewelry that belonged to Serge Gainsbourg and exhibited together for the first time. Reservations for the museum are open, exclusively online, on the Maison Gainsbourg website.