Entente Cordiale Centenary - Welcome
Entente Cordiale Visual Arts Exchange Programme September-December 2004
The Entente Cordiale Visual Arts Exchange Programme at institutions throughout
The Visual Arts Research (VARIE) in Edinburgh and The National Institute of Art History(INHA), a public institution founded by a decree of
INHA develops independent research programmes with a research team from a conservation or academic background, as well as organising numerous events in collaboration with French and international institutions. The institute has the role of a catalyst, as well as that of a unifier and a resonance chamber for research activities in art history. INHA is a member of RIHA (International Association of Research Institutes in the History of Art)which was created on the premises in 1998.
VARIE, created in 1999, is a network created to develop research projects, facilitate international cooperation, strengthen ties between museums, universities and art schools, as well as furthering multidisciplinarity. Under the direction of Professor Richard Thomson, head of the Art History department at the
The ‘Entente Cordiale’ project will furthermore involve Gray’s
The programme brings together some of
Photographs by the artist Philippe Bazin, who is visiting 23rd-29th October, and giving a public lecture at Gray's
Philippe Bazin (b. 1954, Philippe Bazin’s photographs generate questions about relationships between institutions and individuals. Bazin’s background in medicine first led him to concentrate on the faces of hospital patients, from the elderly to newborns. In the mid-1980s, Bazin left medicine to take up a place at the Arles National School of Photography; national and international solo and group exhibitions quickly followed. In 1990, Faces, Bazin’s first book of photographs (with a text by Bernard Lamarche-Vadel), appeared. Since then, his subjects have included different institutional groups: teenagers in their schools, prisoners, and workers. As a Glenfiddich Artist-in-Residence in 2002, he approached Scottish battlefields and the faces of the Glenfiddich workforce through the media of photography and film respectively. During his Entente Cordiale visit (23-29 October), Bazin is interested in developing relationships with colleagues and students at Gray’s School of Art, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, at Edinburgh College of Art, and other art schools in Scotland. Bazin’s public lecture at Gray’s is planned for 25 October. Recent Solo Exhibitions 2004 Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dunkerque 2003 Galerie Anne Barrault 2003 Galerie Intérieur, Lille 2003 Le Triangle, 2002 Gallery of the Recent Group Exhibitions 2004 ‘About Face: Photography and the Death of the Portrait’, Hayward Gallery, 2004 Galerie Duchamp, Yvetot 2004 ‘Je t’envisage’, Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne (2003, Culturgest, Lisbon) Select Recent Bibliography 2000 nés, texts by Bernard Lamarche-Vadel, Christiane Vollaire, Méréal & Idem + Arts 1999 Chantiers, text by Robin Wilson, Kent Institute of Art and Design, 1995 Les Bourgeois de Calais, text by Philippe Bazin, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Calais 1995 Adolescents, text by Thierry de Duve, le Channel/William Balke & Co.,
CONTACTS
Dr Stacy Boldrick
Visual Arts Research Insitute
History of Art Department
University of Edinburgh
19 George Square
Edinburgh
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