The artistic interconnections between East and West. A religious and cultural crossroads on the Silk Road, the oasis of Dunhuang in China is home to the richest and best preserved Buddhist art sanctuary in the world, classified as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. It was the Chinese painter Chang Shuhong who from 1936, following…
The Mediterranean holds the sad record of being one of the most polluted seas in the world. Plastic is a particular threat to marine biodiversity: ingested by marine fauna and flora, it completely contaminates the sea and the entire food chain of living beings. The French Riviera is particularly affected by this issue. Preserving the…
Come and meet the works of Heidi and Lino Melano, as well as other artists on display. You will be able to enter into the experience that each work offers by discovering the story of their creators, their moments of joy, sadness and doubts. Their works will speak to you… Explore during the visits,…
Concert by pianist Song Siheng by painter Gerard Economos to explore collision points between two extraordinary artists. Divided into four parts, like a train heading towards tomorrow, it takes on unpredictable rhythms, with eternal clatter. Seeking the source, surging and dissolving in the emergent blue, these are our steps in pursuit of the future. With…
To celebrate its 20th anniversary in China, UC Berkeley commissioned a painting from Chinese artist Chang Jiahuang. The artist took hundreds of digital photos throughout the process of creating the painting. A team of computer scientists transformed these photos into a lighted brush that reproduced the artist’s gestures on stage while two professional dancers accompanied…
Calligraphy is an age-old art in traditional Chinese culture. In Chinese 书法 “shufa”, it literally translates to “the art of drawing”.The art that makes letters sing with ink.Cutting or the art of balancing and proportioning paper is highly valued because of its low cost and artistic quality of the work. As a reflection of its…
Who hasn’t heard of Jacques Prévert ? Diana Landi and Gabriel Villa bring the famous writer back to life by proposing an immersion into his universe at Jacques Prévert’s former home in Saint-Paul de Vence. Gabriel Villa goes in search of the poet and recalls their very first meeting 47 years ago… With caustic humour,…
Design and production of a visual and sound show desired and conceived as a journey through passion and the senses. A true hymn to love through the glorious radiance of the rose, the universal symbol of love. Music, song and art all come together for a joyous journey to the very heart of love and…
Organization of a unique visual and musical event: the rencontre of two painters from very different worlds, for an original, sensitive and marvelous real-time, four-handed production based on the theme of flowers. Jean-François Gaulthier is a French painter, an artist using light and the coloured evanescence of petals, who enigmatically transforms the female form. JF…
A new production of the original show that marked 50 years of Franco-Chinese friendship, with a more contemporary twist to the 2011 version, to allow the public to really appreciate this fabulous page in the history of Chinese art, through video-projections, dance, song, music and painting. Organized as part of the “c’est pas classique” events,…
