{"id":26384,"date":"2012-11-08T16:49:09","date_gmt":"2012-11-08T15:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/?p=26384"},"modified":"2012-11-08T18:45:04","modified_gmt":"2012-11-08T17:45:04","slug":"book-launch-spirit-of-ecstasy-a-novel-by-david-evrard-mottowiels-211112-7pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/?p=26384","title":{"rendered":"Book launch: \u2018Spirit of Ecstasy\u2019 &#8211; A novel by David Evrard &#8211; MOTTO@WIELS ( 21\/11\/12 &#8211; 7pm )"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/?attachment_id=26392\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-26392\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-26392\" title=\"Evrard Spirir\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Evrard-Spirir-682x811.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"682\" height=\"811\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Evrard-Spirir-682x811.jpg 682w, https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Evrard-Spirir-252x300.jpg 252w, https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Evrard-Spirir.jpg 1141w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 682px) 100vw, 682px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>With Anne Bossuroy, Jean-Daniel Bourgeois, Isabelle Copet, Jonathan Dewinter, Jenny Donnay, Lucie Ducenne, Fran\u00e7ois Francescini, Jonas Locht, Xavier Mary, G\u00e9rard Meurant and Nicolas Verplaetse.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00ab \u2018Spirit of Ecstasy\u2019 is a novel that reads like a long acid trip in which places, epochs, characters and things, both imagined and real, all intermingle and where people wake up just to go and watch the sun rise.\u00a0\u00a0The book seems to be constructed of visions.\u00a0\u00a0It is pink, orange and purple and shimmering.\u00a0\u00a0It contains smoke, mind-blowing geometric forms, dance, sex and rhythm.\u00a0\u00a0There are uppercuts and swings.\u00a0\u00a0Its chronology is elusive, and you almost need a map to guide you through it.\u00a0\u00a0\u2018Spirit of Ecstasy\u2019 is a novel written by David Evrard that conveys his joyful experience of exhibitions.\u00a0\u00a0At the core of the story is a large exhibition, a crazy curator with copper teeth who, incidentally, doesn\u2019t organise anything, and artists who talk, have fun, and who construct spaces and forms \u00bb.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Jill Gasparina.<\/div>\n<div>Published by Komplot and Black Jack Editions.<\/div>\n<div>Designed by Pierre Huyghebaert from Speculoos, with Aur\u00e9lie Commerce.<\/div>\n<div>Distributed by Les presses du r\u00e9el and Motto.<\/div>\n<div>Realised with the support of the F\u00e9d\u00e9ration Wallonie-Bruxelles.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Anne Bossuroy, Jean-Daniel Bourgeois, Isabelle Copet, Jonathan Dewinter, Jenny Donnay, Lucie Ducenne, Fran\u00e7ois Francescini, Jonas Locht, Xavier Mary, G\u00e9rard Meurant and Nicolas Verplaetse. \u00a0\u00ab \u2018Spirit of Ecstasy\u2019 is a novel that reads like a long acid trip in which places, epochs, characters and things, both imagined and real, all intermingle and where people wake [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1781,13,2842],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26384"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26384"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26393,"href":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26384\/revisions\/26393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}