Lucie Tréguier and Corentin Schimel, co-founders of the association "Le Barreau des Arts", talk with Alain Berland about the relationship between art and law.

 

Le Barreau des Arts is an association that aims to promote access to the law for authors and precarious performers. The association acts under the aegis of the Paris Bar Association, and offers beneficiary artists legal advice on copyright law, as well as educational resources to promote and facilitate their access to and understanding of the law. 

 

From the guerrilla of signs

 

Jacques Villeglé began his studies at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Rennes, where he met Raymond Hains. From 1947 to 1949 he studied architecture in Nantes, then moved to Paris.

In 1949 he became a collector of torn posters, calling himself a "poster artist" and proclaiming the "guerrilla war of signs.

 

Author of a prolix work since the 1970s, pioneer of "musical theater" associating musicians, actors and the public with his Atelier Théâtre et Musique (ATEM), Georges Aperghis is one of the cardinal figures of contemporary musical creation, recognized by numerous distinctions such as the Golden Lion of the Venice Music Biennale or the BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge prize.

 

Neïl Beloufa (born in 1985 in Paris, France) is a French-Algerian artist/director who lives and works in Paris. Through his practice, he questions society and its issues through different mediums: films, sculptures and installations. He studied at the Beaux-Arts de Paris and the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris; at the California Institute of the Arts, Valencia (USA); at the Cooper Union, New York and at the Fresnoy - Studio national des Arts Contemporain, Tourcoing (France). 

 

As part of the Troubles, Dissent and Aesthetics Chair coordinated by Fabrice Bourlez and Ilana Eloit, and in collaboration with professors Patricia Ribault and Clara Schulmann, a live meeting with philosopher Rosi Braidotti.

Dreaming of elsewhere and of the past, passionate about horses, subjugated by the spectacle of nature, French Romanticism was nourished by various sources, translated into drawings in watercolor as well as in pen and pencil.

Many students and graduates of the Beaux-Arts de Paris are participating in this charity exhibition.
Among the twenty artists on display are students Pierre Mérigot, Olga Sabko, Tristan Chev, and Elladj Lincy, as well as graduates Laura Tolen (2020 graduate), Johanna Mirabel (2019 graduate), Laurie van Melle (2019 graduate), and Julia Haumont (2017 graduate).