A culinary experience imagined by Johann Le Guillerm & Alexandre Gauthier

One “writes” his dishes, the other wants to “feed” people his ideas. Alexandre Gauthier is a world-renowned chef whose creativity established him as a singular identity that earned him a second Michelin star in 2017. He talks about the rhythm of the flavours, of power that builds to a crescendo, ruptures in tastes and palettes of emotions. He likes art and the encounters they allow him to engage in, and especially trailblazers like Johann Le Guillerm.

The conductor and the artist are united by the same way of acting: laboratory research and artistic exploration tinged with a strong taste for transgressing the established codes.

They were made to meet one another. Johann Le Guillerm has a longstanding desire to open what he calls “new spaces of play” removed from conventions by pursuing his infinite quest for the minimal, that “not much” that can be found in the Whole. Food was already part of his projects, but it was the meeting with Alexandre Gauthier that allowed him to make the project a reality with a crazy dream, to unite the head and stomach by giving food for thought during an “enchanted” meal.

It is an invitation to a strange rite that will offer an existential experience of tasting concepts with the stomach as well as the mind. These two extremities of Man are linked by a column that allow him to keep standing.

The cuisine is concocted by the chef, while the objects, forms and scenography are from Attraction and the approaches to this culinary performance are the result of the meeting. The nourishing experience is unique, totally unusual and magical. It brings the whole body into play, imagined as a place of total experience.

Alexandre Gauthier – La Grenouillère