Topor rit encore (Topor is still laughing)
Exhibition designed by Patrick Roegiers

Roland Topor always had fun with photography, playing with the medium and using it as an original means of creation. His antics in photo booths (Topor-matons), his sessions in a darkened studio where he drew patterns in the air with a flashlight, the amazing comic routine he did in Amsterdam wearing a bowler hat and smoking a cigar, his Ramollissements, his fashion photography, portraits of him taken by friends, and the last pictures taken three weeks before he died: all point to Topor's sense of fun. His outstanding work as a many-facetted artist who lived a thousand lives now includes this movingly beautiful series of unexpected and astonishing photographs.

Patrick Roegiers


The accompanying soundtrack for Topor Rit Encore is taken from the disc/catalogue of the exhibition held at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, recorded in 1975 by Roland Topor and Freddy de Vree, at the request of Ad Petersen, and from an unpublished cassette of children's songs and nursery rhymes, improvised by Topor at home in Paris in 1992, with Freddy de Vree at the piano. Edited by Pierre Catois. 11 mins 4 secs.