l'école le Campus:
NOTRE GRAND MUR
at the Musée d'Art naïf, Nice
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l'école le Campus: NOTRE GRAND MUR at the Musée d'Art naïf, Nice press page |
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We invite you to have a look at our unique project in which all the staff and pupils of a primary school near Nice will paint a canvas as part of a big composition of over 170 canvases to be hung together on two walls of the Art naïf Museum in Nice.
The painting will be done at the school in the week of 12th October and the composition will be installed at the Museum on 4th, 5th and 6th November, with the Inauguration at 18h30 on Monday 9th November. |
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On behalf of the school Le Campus & of the whole team, we wish to thank:
the Ville de Nice and the Musée international d'Art naïf Anatole Jakowsky for their enthusiastic welcome, as well as Châteaux Miraval & La Mascaronne for their generous contributions to the Inauguration.
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ON THIS PRESS PAGE timetable of the painting sessions 12-16th Oct maps for the school and the museum
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ci-dessus: l'affiche 'avant' |
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the project in brief... The idea is simple: a wall of paintings created by the pupils - and staff! - of the primary school "école primaire le Campus" at Drap [a small town just n.e. of Nice], following a design by the Scottish artist Jonathon Brown; the whole thing will make a unique image in multiple facets, showing the farm, animals and gardens of the school, nestling in the hills of the arrière-pays... Thanks to the enthusiasm of the Musée international d'Art naïf Anatole Jakowski in Nice, the project will find its home there: the canvases will be hung on two walls round a corner (!) in one of the big rooms on the first floor for an inauguration on 9th November... Every step of the adventure will be filmed by Sarah Vermeersch to be released in a 'pack' of 4 DVDs. What's more, note that our Inauguration is to be held on the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall - a painted wall that had to come down just as ours is a painted wall that undoes the idea of wall! & in a little more detail... Jonathon Brown has long been a friend of David Hockney and in 2007 wrote a book giving an account of the friendship to mark Hockney's 70th birthday; it was Hockney who encouraged him to paint & draw and from Hockney Jonathon has acquired a shared disdain for peep-hole one-point perspective. From this stems the inspriration to build a single image composed out of several elements, be that photographs or canvases. Then Jonathon had the idea of making such a picture on a grand scale but where the canvases are done by a group of people such as a school, guided by an outline that is not too fixed - it mustn't be a case of painting by numbers. Then came two "coups de foudre": Jenny Carter, the art teacher at the école le Campus, immediately wanted the idea for her school, and Anne Stilz, director of the Musée International d'Art Naïf at Nice, wanted to show the finished thing. The result: Notre Grand Mur at the Musée d'Art naïf... |
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USEFUL LINKS
THE PROJECT IN MORE DETAIL:www.villaparasol.com/mur09En.htm [in French: www.villaparasol.com/mur09Fr.htm] PROGRESS DAY-by-DAY: www.villaparasol.com/mur09journal.htm école le Campus: www.ecolelecampus.com MUSéE D'ART NAïF: www.nice.fr/Culture/Musees-et-expositions/Musee-d-Art-Naif Jonathon BROWN: www.villaparasol.com Sarah VERMEERSCH: www.sarahvermeersch.com |
USEFUL CONTACTS
the school: 04 93 54 03 83 Art naïf Museum: 04 93 71 78 33 Jonathon Brown: 06 68 03 02 28 Sarah Vermeersch: 06 12 56 55 48
full contact details follow below |
WHAT'S TO COME ON THIS PAGE:
timetable for filming the painting sessions between 12 & 16 octobre
images you may download and reproduce freely
maps for the school and the museum
DETAILS OF THE TEAM
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école le Campus, 9, route du Château, La Colle, 06340 Drap |
Lionel Hammer, Directeur, 04 93 54 03 83 fax: 04 93 54 62 97
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Jenny Carter Responsable, Arts créatifs 06 61 15 77 47 |
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Musée international d'Art naïf Anatole Jakovsky Château Sainte Hélène avenue Val Marie 06200 Nice 04 93 71 78 33 fax : 04 93 72 34 10 |
Anne Stilz Conservateur
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Pascal ALBERTINI Médiateur Culturel pascal.albertini@ville-nice.fr
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the artist & the film-maker |
Jonathon Brown, Villa Parasol, 1, route de la Mairie 06670 Duranus 0 668 030 228
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Sarah Vermeersch, La Collinière, 680, rte de l'ancien Chemin de Fer, Pont-du-Loup 06620 Gourdon 06 12 56 55 48 |
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OCTOBER
12/13/14/15/16: second week of filming: the canvases
NOVEMBER
4/5/6th: canvases are hung at the museum
monday 9th: Inauguration of Notre Grand Mur
exhibition: 10th - 23rd november (closed Tuesdays)
during the exhibition: 13th, 16th, 20th:
10h-12h: Jenny Carter takes workshops at the museum
Tuesday 24th: canvases taken down
filming timetable
for the week of 12th October
when the canvases are being painted
Monday 12th 11:00-13:00 (CE1)
Tuesday 13th 14:30-16:30 (CP)
Wednesday 14th 09:00-11:00 (CM2); 11:00-12:20 (CM1)
Thursday 15th 10:00-12:00 (CE2); 14:30-16:20 (GS)
Friday 16th 09:00-10:30 (PS); 10:30-12:00 (MS)
Note that the class CM2 of summer 2009 have already done their canvases before leaving the school!
Inauguration
Monday 9th November at 18h30
Musée d'Art naïf, Nice
18h: the museum closes, the children arrive...
18h30: parents arrive to stroll round the exhibition on the 1st floor...
19h [!]: downstairs for —
19h15: — speeches:
Mme.Stilz, "Bienvenu!"; M.Hammer, "Merci!"; Jenny Carter, "Voici!"; JB, "Voilà!"
19h30: the children only go upstairs class by class to be photographed in front of Their grand Mur; on their way downstairs they are filmed all signing the wall at the top of the stairs in felt pen; meantime for the parents wine & canapés downstairs...
Once the wall has been signed, parents may mingle upstairs.
We are thrilled by the generosity of Châteaux Miraval & la Mascaronne for their gift of the wines.
images to download
all these pictures are 'libre de droit' and can be downloaded here as jpeg;
for full resolution, use the written link below each one.
The under-drawing by Jonathon Brown that is the basis of the composition;
charcoal on paper
© Jonathon Brown
Jonathon Brown [& Jenny Carter] during his talk on David Hockney during the DH Study Day in May
(a Self-portrait by DH can be seen on the back screen)
clichés © Sarah Vermeersch
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Jonathon Brown & Sarah Vermeersch during the "David Hockney Study Day"
clichés © Jenny Carter
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Sarah Vermeersch filming and a boy saving his picture of the cow - from the cow!
clichés © Jonathon Brown
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DVDs
The "Pack" will consist of:
dvd-1 (c.90'): the start of it all: the "David Hockney Study Day", JB's talk on DH...
dvd-2 (c.60'): out-takes of the relevant classes...
dvd-3 (c.90'): "Notre grand Mur", a documentary film by Sarah Vermeersch...
dvd-4: a short version of the film (c.15'), a documentary on the inauguration (c.60') & a sequence of stills...
Copies of DVDs 1 & 2 are already available (the dvd-2 is of CM2 last summer).
Let us know if you would like a copy, by e-mail to Sarah or Jonathon.
posters
these posters are 'libre de droit' and can be downloaded here as jpeg;
for full resolution pdf as A3 format, use the written link below.
the "début" summer poster
left: version as at 23rd May: www.villaparasol.com/mur09/affiches/02A3SKmai.pdf
right: version as at 21st June, with the finished canvases done by the summer class: www.villaparasol.com/mur09/affiches/05PosterBkg2A3.pdf
(In the second version the pale green triangle shows a shape which if cut out allows the poster to be folded where there is a corner of the room!)
the "avant" poster of 7th October
and the logo
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version du 9 octobre, en format A2: |
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logo en format jpeg: |
a word about the artists
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A chance remark by
David Hockney over thirty years ago led Jonathon
Brown upon a slow evolution from philosophy student to artist. He
has lived in the hills north of Nice since 1992 and his work in ink,
charcoal or oils - very often depicting journeys and often on more than one
canvas - is characterised by suggestive playfulness between colour and line.
He is also happy to undertake commissions for paintings or drawings, including House Portraits or portraits of children... |
Sarah Vermeersch studied photography & film
in Brussels and at Nice University; recently she has concentrated on
short filmed autobiographies called "Real Life Is Good Enough", as well
as work with Brian Eno and Gary Moore, while not forsaking her taste for
working with children and making uniquely animated portraits... even of
grown-ups.
She too is happy do commissioned portraits or make a record of parties... rather like "Notre grand Mur"! |
Jenny Carter trained as an art teacher in the late 60s in London, the days when David Hockney became famous and the hero of all young artists! Wanting to try something different, she worked in Cosmetic Marketing for over 17 years, specialising in Colour. 20 years ago she returned to teaching English and Art in the South of France and September saw her start her 12th year at Le Campus, where every year she discovers ‘fantastic young artists with great potential’. "This project is a dream come true, all those highly talented young artists getting to exhibit in a ‘real’ international art gallery!" |
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