Charlélie Couture, responding warmly to an invitation from the father of Léonard Froté who died tragically, is in Delémont to share a musical and poetic encounter. I had the pleasure of speaking with someone who has long defended “multiism”, a simultaneous practice of several artistic disciplines such as music, painting, photography and literature.
Charlélie Couture offers me this moment of sharing where he evokes this impromptu visit with his biographer to his childhood home in Nancy at Rue de la Source. He decides to press the doorbell giving access to this childhood place. An old lady who telephones a friend opens the door and, misunderstanding, announces to her interlocutor that Charlélie is there at her door interested in purchasing the property. Charlélie finds herself as a child in the same house and superimposes her memories which led him to be this man of today. A wonderful moment of joy, reverberating, sweet, penetrating.
And little by little, he begins to affirm that he is living his fifth life. A normal first life, that of all of us, which relies on models and which compares itself to those it admires and imitates; a second life of seven years, that of a star, an object for others, a life which no longer belongs to him, which is that of the view of others on him in which he is loved more than he deserved and hated more than justified ; a third life during which he was able to educate his children for almost sixteen years; a fourth life in the United States during which he discovers the American who judges others on what he will do in the future and not on what his past says about him; a fifth life both more serene and sadder, perhaps I guess I guess less noisy but deeper.
Where does this artistic soul come from, this hypersensitive being who transmits his emotions to others? Charlélie remembers this museum visit at twelve years old with her father and the discovery of the painter Duchamp, “I feel what he wanted to express, I want to be an artist”. He will have read Boris Vian and many American authors, he will have become a film decorator, could have been a director or director, will write songs, an art as major or minor as poetry, painting, music can be. movie theater.
Trump’s America distraught him, or rather caused his return to France. The extreme imbecility of Trump, the proven stupidity of his voters devoid of solidarity and having only money, money, and more money as a marker of life, this abysmal navel-gazing of individuals was crudely stated by me as a dejected person. “Something broke” and here he is today in his fifth life in the canton of Jura for an unbridled, joyful and crazy evening.
In front of the literary circle led by Vincent Froté, Charlélie Couture in a fair and intense tone will have covered some facets of his journey which he will have ended that evening with dedications on his latest disc whose title translates the vagaries of life , AGAINST YOU
“BEING AN ARTIST IS GOOD, BEING A MAN IS BETTER”, Charlélie Couture.
