Invention to survive crises: events throughout the year 2010 in 16 cities between France, Switzerland and Germany

 

From 28 January to 31 December 2010, border cities will create a network through the Métropole Rhin-Rhône association to imagine a communal development including a selection of exhibitions with the theme « utopias & innovations ».

 

Launch of the event on 28 January in Besançon with the exhibition Charles Fourier. L'écart absolu at the Musée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie.

Valentine Dolla / valentine@claudinecolin.com

Le territoire de la Confluence correspond à l’intégralité du sud de la Presqu’île entre la place Carnot et la pointe du confluent Rhône/Saône. Coupé du reste de la ville par deux fleuves, une autoroute et une voie ferrée, il s’est développé sur le mode d’un faubourg industriel. La moitié des 150 hectares était occupée par des activités industrielles ou logistiques, en voie de cessation ou relocalisation, offrant ainsi des disponibilités foncières considérables. Les atouts de ce territoire sont nombreux : une situation centrale dans l’agglomération, un site paysager d’une grande qualité (les berges douces de la Saône, de grands paysages collinaires, 5 kilomètres de quais (aucun point n’est éloigné de l’eau de plus de 400 mètres), l’attrait unique d’un confluent puissant, un quartier habité depuis le 19ième siècle et une desserte très performante (une gare SNCF, une ligne de métro, deux lignes de tramway).

Situated at the heart of the Quartier of creation on the Ile de Nantes, the Manny building is being built on the initiative of Patrice Coupechoux, CEO of the Coupechoux group by the Nantes-based agency Tetrarc who create emblematic architecture, an urban event that bears witness to the vitality of the creation.

 

Official Partner of Estuaire Nantes<>Saint-Nazaire since its creation in 2007 (supporting "les anneaux" (“the rings”) by Daniel Buren and Patrick Bouchain), the Coupechoux group proves once again its engagement in inviting two artists, Rolf Julius and Angela Bulloch, to respond to the architecture of the building.

Valentine Dolla / valentine@claudinecolin.com

The winners of the Praemium Imperiale 2009 are:

Hiroshi Sugimoto (visual arts)
Richard Long (sculpture)
Zaha Hadid (architecture)
Alfred Brendel (music)
Tom Stoppard (theatre/cinema)


Eva Astaburuaga Dalla Venezia / eva@claudinecolin.com

“Mapping the Studio: Artists from François Pinault Collection”—an exhibition curated by Alison Gingeras and Francesco Bonami— open simultaneously in the newly renovated spaces of Punta della Dogana and at Palazzo Grassi.
The curators have proposed an analogy between the creativity and intimacy of the artist’s studio and the collector’s deeply individual and passionate vision of art.


Dorelia Baird-Smith / dorelia@claudinecolin.com
Eva Astaburuaga dalla Venezia / eva@claudinecolin.com

The Villa Demoiselle reopens after restoration begun in 2001. Both its interior and exterior architecture are exceptional examples of the transition from Art Nouveau to Art Deco.


Mathilde Beaujard / mathilde@claudinecolin.com

SAMOA is the project manager charged with leading the urban renewal project of the île de Nantes and contributing to the transformation of this mixed site in a real city centre.


Valentine Dolla / valentine@claudinecolin.com