the conference program

The CRP/ Hauts-de-France, an art center dedicated to photography unique in France

Meeting with Audrey Hoareau, director of the CRP/ Centre régional de la photographie Hauts-de-France in Douchy-les-Mines, France.

Friday, February 9, 2024 at 2:30 p.m.; 45 minutes

Come and chat with the director of the Centre régional de la photographie Hauts-de-France, based in Douchy-les-Mines. We'll take a look back at the history of this art center, the first in France to devote itself to this medium. For the past forty years, this unique and internationally acclaimed facility has supported contemporary creation through a program of residencies and exhibitions, as well as outreach activities (tours, workshops, conferences, etc.). It also houses an exceptional collection, an art library, a specialized library and a film laboratory.

KIJNO from pebble to star

Speech by Renaud Faroux

Friday, February 9, 2024 at 5pm, 45 minutes

During the retrospective dedicated to Kijno at LaBanque in Béthune, exhibition curator Renaud Faroux will explore reflections on Ladislas Kijno's Théatre de Néruda, presented in the French Pavilion at the 1980 Venice Biennale.

Artists and collectors: roles and links in the cross-border visual arts sector

Meeting with Aurélien Maillard, artist-author and Marc Lasseaux, collector and administrator of 50° NORD - 3° EST and organized by 50° NORD - 3° EST / pôle arts visuels Hauts-de-France & territoires transfrontaliers. Moderated by Françoise Objois, journalist

Friday, February 9, 2024, 3:45pm; 45 minutes

One year after the 50° NORD - 3° EST visual arts cluster opened its doors to self-employed visual artists in the cross-border region, it has seen a clear diversification of profiles among its members. Artists, curators, collectors, gallerists, art critics and others benefit from the cluster's resources, and can take part in events that contribute to improving their working conditions. How do these profiles take part in a project aimed at structuring the visual arts sector on the scale of an economic territory open to cross-border cooperation?

Videographing or drawing the Vision

Meet artist Richard Skryzak and view his works Coups de Foudre, Désir and Rallumer les étoiles.

Saturday, February 10, 2024 at 2:30 p.m.; 45 minutes

« À la lettre « vidéo-graphie » signifie écriture, trace, dessin de la vision. Qu’est-ce que cela implique ? Qu’en est-il de la ligne, de la forme, de la couleur en vidéo ? Sachant que l’image vidéo elle -même est le fruit d’un entrelacement de lignes électroniques et de pixels. Ces questions, je les explore depuis plus de 30 ans dans ma pratique et ma réflexion théorique sur le médium vidéo, que je considère comme de la poésie électronique. Ma réponse passe par la captation et la mise en œuvre des éléments du ciel comme la lune, l’éclair ou encore les traces d’avion. Je les perçois comme autant de figures plastiques à la limite de l’abstraction (ligne/éclair, floutage/trace d’avion, lune/croissant/cercle), et les réorganise dans mes productions à la lumière notamment du concept de vanité. Mon entreprise esthétique s’inscrit dans le projet plus vaste d’une « Poétique de l’Art Vidéo »

Sharing images

Visit to the exhibition by Virginie Caudron, Director of the Musée du Dessin et de l'estampe originale in Gravelines.

Saturday, February 10, 2024 at 3:45 p.m.; duration 45 minutes; meet at the Thema stand

Drawing the world means inscribing one's own geography, bearing witness, inventing a history, or tracing the unspeakable. The presentation of the Thema exhibition highlights remarkable prints from the collection of the Musée du Dessin et de l'Estampe originale de Gravelines. Anna Eva Bergman, David Lynch, Jean Messagier, Tony Soulié, Diane Victor, ... set the world in motion, reacting to current events or expressing their moods and intuitions in the face of the world's spectacle.

Drawing, drawing madly

Interview with Bruno Gérard, administrator and curator of the Paul Duhem Foundation

Saturday, February 10, 2024 at 5:00 p.m.; duration 45 minutes

Far from our traditional codes of representation, how do the creators of the Paul Duhem Foundation draw the world, their world? Without concern for "beauty", the trace left on the paper is always significant. It's up to us to decipher the message.

A sheet of paper, pencils... What for??? Family audience

Meeting with Blandine Raynaud, art historian, storyteller and tour guide

Sunday, February 11, 2024 at 11:30 a.m.; duration 30 minutes

A sheet of paper, pencils... We've all started drawing with these tools. But these tools are no longer the only ones involved in producing a drawing, especially when the drawing is a work of art in its own right! Contemporary art has made it possible for drawing to cease to be regarded as an artistic sub-category, and contemporary artists have no shortage of ideas and techniques for making drawing a complex and fascinating work by excluding paper and pencils from their tools. So let's discover together these original techniques, which sometimes use tools you'd never expect!

Olivier DEPREZ on the "L'Image en partage" exhibition stand

Performance HOLZ by Olivier Deprez

Art Night on Thursday, February 8, 2024, 9:00 pm

HOLZ is a magazine produced and printed on 10 g kozo paper using etching techniques (xylography, linocut, monotype, found objects) by Olivier Deprez and Roby Comblain. It measures 50 x 61 cm. Reading HOLZ magazine is a performance in itself, as the magazine - thanks to its very light paper and dimensions - draws the reader's attention back to the very act of reading it. Leafing through HOLZ magazine is also a cinematic experience, not only because it takes viewers into the worlds of Chantal Akerman and Pier Paolo Pasolini, but above all because the principle of visual afterglow shapes our gaze.

Drawing is a walk, an exploration of the soul, a walk through the forest", Marc Ronet

Meeting with artist Marc Ronet and Mélanie Lerat, curator-director of the MUba Eugène Leroy in Tourcoing. Moderated by Françoise Objois, journalist

Sunday, February 11, 2024 at 2:30 p.m.; duration 45 minutes

Marc Ronet is a painter, draughtsman and engraver. In all its diversity, the graphic technique - etching, drypoint, charcoal or chalk on paper - is an absolute necessity, a breath of fresh air, the infinite pleasure of the hand and gesture that constantly explores the material, reinvents the tools and appropriates the constraints of each medium. This three-part presentation echoes the monographic exhibition Marc Ronet. La main & le geste, on view at the MUba Eugène Leroy in Tourcoing until February 11, 2024.