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The 'Inhabiting the landscape. Art meets the living" (2020-2022) proposed to explore how art can be closely woven into a pre-existing living territory. The "Artistic practices of hospitality for the living" Chair proposes to take the investigation a step further, with a new question as its compass: how can art create a living territory? The experimental laboratory for this Chair is the School itself, its buildings, courtyards and gardens.

Marcus Coates, Stoat, 1999, single-channel video, 1 min 53 seconds

The artist gives force to the issues of the world by gathering for his or her work scattered knowledge that he or she deepens, diverts or brushes aside, but which he or she uses as so many inspiring elements to formulate his or her vision. This particular use of available knowledge, this way of delving into the new, the old, the obsolete, the essential and the marginal with the same passion, of plunging into the incomprehensible, characterises artistic practices.

Photography today is undergoing profound changes, both technically and artistically. While its use in artistic creation has long been a given for today's institutions and discourse on art, the limits of the medium are constantly evolving, giving rise to multiple hybridisations with other techniques and renewed questioning of the very nature of the photographic process. On the one hand, 'artificial intelligences' - image-producing algorithms - are challenging us to redefine photorealism.

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Saturday 14 November 2020

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Event cancelled due to new health regulations

On the occasion of the Nuit des Musées, discover Le Théâtre des Expositions, a composite, disordered and experimental piece written by students of the "Exhibition Professions" program, with free admission.

An exhibition with Ariane Jouhaud, Arthur Guespin, César Ropponen Brunel, Elisa Florimond, Gabriel Day, Kieu-Anh Phuong Nguyen, Lauren Januhowski, Lucille Leger, Maïa Lacoustille, margaus, Margaux Cusin, Nastassia Kotava, Noémie Pilo, Rémi Coignec, Victoire Gonzalvez.

Wernher

Bouwens

Printmaking-bookmaking

Fascinated by the perception of colors and the visual experience par excellence, Wernher Bouwens has developed a practice that unfolds in the fields of painting and publishing, but also in the context of monumental installations. He explores the relationships between transparencies, wefts, wefts, superpositions, movements, vibrations, colors and volumes. He aspires to astonish the spectator by offering him chromatic experiences, independent and surprising by their richness.

A graduate of the Kunstacademie Saint Joost de Brada in the Netherlands, he taught at the Beaux-Arts in Quimper then at Decorative Arts in Paris. His experience of traditional printing techniques and art publishing allows him to consider publishing as an infinite field of possibilities to think about in relation to all kinds of plastic desires. He has initiated several collective editorial projects including the Nomade magazine, the Étincelle art books and the Printjam improvisation project. He exhibits regularly in France and abroad.

Photo credit: © Hugo Aymar

Julien

Sirjacq

Printing and Publishing

Painting, screen printing, video, sound... Julien Sirjacq deploys his artistic work across different platforms with different collaborators. He co-founded “The Bells Angels” in 2009 with artist Simon Bernheim (musician of the group “10lec6”, Ed Banger label). Their multidisciplinary approach penetrates a wide range of mediums, from painting and installation to sound and publishing. It is through commissioned projects that they develop their hybrid editorial system, built like a conversation between book and exhibition: sound productions, installations, radio workshops, visual identity, exhibition catalogs, etc. They are collaborating with the Geneva Museum of Art and History, Confort Moderne and Comédie de Caen and are preparing a cycle of exhibitions in 2022-2023 in galleries and institutions.

After teaching at the Beaux-Arts de Bourges and Angers, Julien Sirjacq took charge of the screen printing workshop at the Beaux-Arts de Paris where he coordinates with Aurélie Pagès and Catherine de Smet an editorial practice module on the questions production and editorial distribution. This workshop involves the photosensitive as much as painting and takes into account the obsolescence of mediums in the digital age. It creates a bridge between mechanical, chemical and digital processes. He also organizes conferences at the School on the issues of image semiology, performance and subcultures.

Photo credit: © Hugo Aymar

Aurélie

Pagès

Printmaking-bookmaking professor

With Aurélie Pagès, publishing is an artistic practice in its own right in which the artist's gesture is understood in all its singularity. His research in graphics focuses on images and reproduction processes, including those related to writing and editing.

In his workshop, the printing processes are put to the service of each person’s particularities. It’s about developing your own working methodology and refining the tools best suited to your project. Painting, writing, drawing, photographing, recording... Whatever the artistic gesture, whether manual, mechanical or photomechanical, it finds its diffusion. A graduate of ENSAD in Paris in engraving, Aurélie Pagès taught at the Beaux-Arts in Quimper and Angers. She has collaborated with numerous artists and publishing structures: Jim Dine, Jose Maria Sicilia, Michael Woolworth Publications, L’Œil d’Or, La Barque…

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In a symbolic axis starting from 14 rue Bonaparte, and within the Palais des Études, this hemicycle was the space for the consecration of the Grand Prix de Rome, awarded to the best students. Nowadays, it remains the place for the graduation ceremony, and in the context of cultural programming, prestigious conferences are regularly held.

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100 people

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Hôtel de Chimay - crédit photo : Ali Arkady

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