VEDUTA
Veduta is an Italian word whose primary meaning is “view”.
In art history the term makes its appearance among the Italian painters of
the Renaissance to describe a window placed inside the scene of a painting
and giving onto a natural or urban landscape.
For 2007 the Lyon Biennial of Contemporary Art has adopted a new system of
research and experimentation: VEDUTA.
VEDUTA is an anthropological scrutiny of Contemporary Art within a global
history of visual production. For more than a century Contemporary Art has
been absorbing and reconstructing components of a visual culture in which“the city” and “the urban” constitute the main frameworks for production
and circulation.
In an age of global urbanisation looming as what Olivier Mongin calls the
new “Urban Condition”, there is a need for examination of the fields of Art
and Territory – the latter embracing the notions of the city and the urban– in terms of their reciprocal relationships: the former in respect of the
questioning of its history, validation criteria, craft skills, religious
aspects, etc.; and the latter in respect of the issues raised by an urban
art involving design, fashion, sound, graffiti and so on.
Seen from this point of view, the Art/Territory relationship takes us
towards the filiation of art in the West. Since the Renaissance, art has
been directly linked to what at the time characterised the great upheaval
in Western society: what Philippe Cardinali calls “the Invention of the
Modern City”. With Giulio Carlo Argan’s “history of art and the city”
stating an intimate connection between the two.
VEDUTA comprises two strands: firstly, activities involving the creation
and circulation of contemporary art in the Rhône-Alpes Region; and
secondly, a tool for research and the production of knowledge in the form
of a conference, research seminars and publications. The aim, for future
Biennials, is the convergence of these two strands into a “Research Action”
taking place prior to the event and with an outcome in the form of an
exhibition in the urban space of the City of Lyon.
Artistic Project 2007
This first VEDUTA is tripartite: an exhibition,outreach and networking
activities, and a specific mobilisation project. These will be complemented
by a conference in December and a publication planned for early 2008.
The exhibition
Eight artists have being called on for an exhibition project in central
Lyon. The artists chosen have been commissioned to create a work consistent
with their personal creative agendas, to be shown on the Place des Terreaux
in Lyon.
- KompleXKapharnaüM, from the territory of Villeurbanne:
www.komplex-kapharnaum.net
- The company “là hors de”, from the territory of la Duchère in Lyon’s 9th
district:
www.lahorsde.com
- The collective “Ici-Même”, from the territory of Grenoble:
www.icimeme.org
- Le Gran Lux, from the territory of Saint-Etienne:
www.coxaplana.com
- Slimane Raïs, from the territory of Lyon’s 8th district:
www.moca-lyon.org/vdl/sections/fr
- Laurent Mulot, from the territory of Vaulx-en-Velin:
www.mofn.org
- Jean-Claude Guillaumon, from the territory of Saint Fons
- Niek van de Steeg, from the territory of Perrache in Lyon’s 2nd district:
www.tgad.com
The event is being designed and laid out by students from the National
School of Architecture in St Etienne (Master 2 Landscape - Art - Design)
under coordinator Christophe Widerski, in partnership with the Grands
Ateliers de l’Isle d’Abeau, who are handling the technical and production
side.
The works will be on show on the Place des Terreaux in central Lyon from
Saturday 13 October at 14:00 and through the night until Sunday 14 October
at 19:00.
Other spaces on the perimeter of the square will be occupied by the work of
artists invited to contribute to Veduta:
the cloister of the Musée des Beaux-Arts
- rue Joseph Serlin
- the Galerie des Terreaux.
Networking and Outreach
Via networking of the cultural, educational and social players in the
territories concerned, and the work of the eight selected artists, various
outreach ventures will be organised for Greater Lyon and the Rhône-Alpes
Region.
These ventures will take place between the spring and October 2007, in the
form of workshops, discussion evenings, exhibitions of contemporary art,
and urban performances in a wide range of venues including a high school, a
police station, a library and a youth centre.
These outreach activities have a dual aim: on the one hand to promote
social mixing and on the other to establish the networks needed for the
creation of artists’ residencies in 2009.
The full programme and the list of partners can be consulted at www.lesitedeveduta.org from May onwards.
Mobilisation
In the context of social integration procedures 3 groups will take part
in the creative and outreach process. The presence of relevant
professionals will give participants the chance to become involved with one
of the following media: writing, photography, video, multimedia.
The projects under way at this point have the backing of:
- The Rillieux-la-Pape youth centre, for digital photography (Rillieux)
- Les Inattendus, for video (Lyon 3/7 district – La Guillotière)
- La M@ison des T.I.C. and Les Potagers du Garon, for multimedia (Grigny,
Givors)
The conference
To mark this first Veduta, a conference is currently being organised for
late 2007. It will have two goals:
- To inventory current knowledge in the field we are involved in and to
begin raising the issues for 2009
- To establish the network needed for the creation of a Veduta research
unit: universities, schools of architecture, art schools, etc., with a view
to providing the appropriate conditions for the next Veduta in 2009
Partners
Philosophy faculty, University Jean Moulin–Lyon 3.
Geneva School of Art: Postgraduate “Art-Place-Landscape – Art & Public
Space”
University of Paris 1–Panthéon Sorbonne: Masters “Cultural Projects in the
Public Space”
National School of Architecture, Saint Etienne: Masters 2 “Landscape-Art-
Design”
National School of Architecture, Grenoble
Millennium 3 – Lyon 2020 – Greater Lyon
CERTU (Centre for Network, Transport and Town Planning Studies)
Personalities contacted:
list in preparation
For the full programme and the list of contributors, consult www.lesitedeveduta.orgfrom May onwards.
The publication
The publication is being produced in partnership with the publishing wing
of CERTU (Centre for Network, Transport and Town Planning Studies).
It will be in three parts: Proceedings of the conference, the exhibition
catalogue and a review of the outreach operations.
The Veduta project is financed by:
Le Grand Lyon
La Préfecture du Rhône / Politique de la Ville
La Direction Régionale des Affaires Culturelles Rhône-Alpes
Le Conseil régional Rhône-Alpes
A.M.O. Rhône-Alpes – Architecture et Maîtres d’Ouvrage
Le Groupe Casino
In partnership with:
Le Musée d’Art Contemporain de Lyon
Le Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon
L’Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Saint-Etienne
Les Grands Ateliers de l’Isle d’Abeau
L’Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Lyon
Le CERTU - Centre d’Etudes sur les Réseaux, les Transports, l’Urbanisme et les constructions publiques
with the support:
La Mission Insertion-Culture d’ALLIES-PLIE de Lyon
La Direction Départementale du Travail, de l’Emploi et de la Formation Professionnelle du Rhône
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Contacts presse:
Presse internationale et nationale
Claudine Colin Communication
Pauline de Montgolfier
01 42 72 60 01
biennaledelyon@claudincolin.com
Presse régionale
Laura Lamboglia
06 83 27 84 46
presse@biennale-de-lyon.org
Contacts Veduta - Biennale de Lyon:
Thierry Raspail, Direction artistique
Xavier Phélut et Stéphanie Claudin, Coordination
Abdelkader Damani, Programmation culturelle et suivi artistique
Biennales de Lyon
3 rue du Président Edouard Herriot - BP 1137
69203 Lyon cedex 01
04 72 07 41 41
veduta@biennale-de-lyon.org
www.lesitedeveduta.org
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