Arles, it is gone again ! - The Point

on The 8th July, the theatre will be full to bursting : Camélia Jordana, Jane Added, L and Sandra Nkaké there will be a special concert : "Protest Songs ". Al

Arles, it is gone again ! - The Point

on The 8th July, the theatre will be full to bursting : Camélia Jordana, Jane Added, L and Sandra Nkaké there will be a special concert : "Protest Songs ". All the proceeds will be donated for the benefit of the nursing staff of the hospital, Joseph-Imbert d'arles. It is an initiative of the summer of arlesian organized with the Suds, a festival that is iconic, that program elsewhere as early as mid-July, several concerts in the avenue of the Alyscamps.

All the artists, directors of art galleries, friends of Arles are mobilized as soon as the announcement of the cancellation of the edition 2020 of the Rencontres de la photographie, global event that has made Arles the capital of the photo since its inception fifty-one years old ! The Covid-19 has not won in Arles. The public responds to this and can already see the photographs of Paolo Roversi, Sarah Moon, Jean-Baptiste Mondino, Dominique Issermann, walking around the historic centre to the edges of the Rhône, in the streets, on walls and facades, "lost Images" collected by two lovers, Arles, Olivier Saillard, a historian of fashion and Gaël Mamine.

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That will decide the new city hall to the right led by Patrick de Carolis ? Resume-t-she the other initiatives developed by the left during the campaign and the crisis ? The flamenco shows, the white card designed by Cyrille Putman with Melvil Poupaud and Philippe Katerine among other artists, the weekend "highlights" ?

In the meantime, and to give the lie to the economic forecast catastrophic – it has been a question of 35 million euros of losses, for hotels, restaurants, ticket offices, various, Arles opens 60 places of art, in the framework of the operation " Arles contemporain ", that is, galleries, places ephemeral, foundations, and of course museums that offer a programming curious and often beautiful.

"Alegria" of James Leonard, at the galerie Anne Clergue © ©jacques Leonard

Anne Clergue, a major figure in arles, which takes one of the galleries of the most expensive in the region, welcomes, faithful in this to the family tradition (his father Lucien Clergue is one of the famous founders of the Rencontres de la photographie), Jacques Leonard, a French photographer unknown, married to a gypsy, photographed the community of his wife in Barcelona in the 1950s. Elegant, dancing, intense. The son of the photographer will be present 10 for a "mini-opening" since the gathering of more than ten people is not really authorized. The center of the gallery (which is located in the heart of the city between place du Forum and the Hotel-de-Ville), a sculpture of his friend Marc Nucera, wood tortured, recalling the movements of the skirts of the dancers, gypsy.

Sculptures of Marc Nucera © ©cruise

To see more works by this sculptor (the one of the leading figures of the season of art 2020 of Chaumont-sur-Loire), in the direction of Cruise, boulevard Émile-Combes. Here, in addition to Nucera, several artists share the immense space completely restored : the collective of students of the national School of photography ; Jean-Pierre Formica and painted impressive, the association of Méjean and the work of the amazing photographer arlésienne Geraldine Lay. Boris Vian, in which we celebrate 100 years, it is celebrated to Cruise with "Bison ravi part in the cruise" and stories by Michel Gondry and Philippe Katerine.

Implementation of the class ACT at the Fondation Manuel Rivera-Ortiz © ©actIl also in the framework of the exhibition "The Pioneers" to the foundation Manuel-Riveira Ortiz (MRO, rue de la Calade), the other high place of art, whose director Nicolas Havette has opened the workshops to local artists who wanted to experiment with something new this summer : the "merry band" of ACT exhibits his work experience is meant to be " evolutionary and organic." What intrigue...

Mireille Mathieu by Reeve Schumacher at The Hoste © FLORENT DEMARCHEZ

To the Workshops, the gallery Lhost who just moved to the Foundation, presents the work of the American-Arlesian Reeve Schumacher who likes to work on the icons today : large panels pixilated where stands out the image of Mireille Mathieu on his album covers of the 1970s : irresistible !

A poster of Thao Nguyen Phan, 2020, Luma foundation, "It's urgent". © courtesy the artistÀ the Luma foundation, the exhibition "It's Urgent" sets the scene of dozens of posters made by artists from around the world. What is the urgency today ? All of the societal issues going on (the woman, the color, the nature, the animals... or only a view, a landscape, a face), posters signed by Annette Messager, Zanele Muholi, or Stephen Shore. Do not miss the video lasting The Course of things (1987) of the duo Fischli/Weiss : the things are really and chain of consequences and tribulations crazy. Ideal for cool ideas...

Roberto Donetta and her family, photography Robeto Donetta, foundation Vincent van Gogh in Arles. © courtesy of achivodonetta

the foundation of the Van-Gogh (rue du Docteur Fanton), Bice Curiger, the curator of the foundation, has drawn on his memories and his library to replace the exhibition was initially planned and postponed since the works of Van Gogh, loaned by several international museums could not be sent. She remembered a photographer's non-standard, ticino, born in 1865, and who has walked all his life in his room photographic and seeds which he sells to earn his living as going travelling. Roberto Donetta photographing the inhabitants of the cantons, appearing in productions freakish. "Some 5,000 glass plates which have reached us should not only be viewed as the work of a marginal, explain the curators Bice Curiger and Julia Walking, but as the testimony of an era of change. This poor region of Ticino knew then a great exodus. "Donetta is dead, ruined, abandoned. On photos the draw impeccable which brings out all the nuances, the families play the game and exudes an impalpable complicity between them and the photographer. It is, moreover, the word "Complicity" which have been chosen by the commissioners as the title to this beautiful set.

The cabinet to the statues of Lucien Clergue, musée Réattu © Lucien Clergue, The cabinet to the statues I, 1987, collection of the Musée Réattu © Lucien Clergue, SAIF, 2020 At the musée Réattu, the splendour of the city, opens "Pandora's box" : the treasures of the collections of antiquities, casts former, minerals, stuffed animals, furniture, liturgical, piled up in the reserves that Andy Neyrotti has chosen to put on the day. A cabinet of curiosities spectacular and intimate. Added to this is the eye of the photographers, Corinne Mercadier, who has staged the mythological figure of Pandora, but also Mimmo Jodice, Bernard Plossu, Willy Ronis, Ansel Adams, Véronique Ellena...

In the course of July, the large cabinet photo open with Arles as the main theme. We dive there in the roots of Arles, its history. The musée Réattu, which has long fought Jean-Maurice Rouquette, the founders of the Rencontres de la photo with Clergue Michel Tournier, has a fantastic collection of drawings and photographs.

Solo Pablo Guidali at the Library of the Palace © ©pablo guidali

Add to this walk, that Arles has such power attractive that the Library of the palace (a 10-street Plan-of-the-Court, next to the galerie Anne Clergue), one of the oldest libraries in France, has reopened its doors, rejuvenated in its woods of oak, its pretty rooms in a row that lead to the workshop of risographie (process of reproduction in rice-based). Julie Barrau, a young architect designer who makes the design of a number of places in Arles, has charge of the artistic direction : it's a great achievement to have knew so well how to unite the old and the present time. The woodworking shop of Colette Golden has designed the magnificent library, shelving original to expose the fine works of photography. There is even a small lounge to take his time and admire the great prints that the Uruguayan Pablo Guidali has made Palermo, Madrid, Marseille,...

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The Rencontres d'arles will not take place

Date Of Update: 04 July 2020, 10:34
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