Led by a husband-and-wife team formed of an architect and an artist, this workshop invites you to focus your gaze, zoom in on the essentials and identify the contrasts that speak to you in Pirosmani’s painting. After spending some time analysing Pirosmani’s works, you will discover, like how to translate your ideas into a play of volumes and colours. The very essence of what touches you in Pirosmani’s paintings will be converted into three dimensions.

A graduate of the Grenoble School of Architecture, Mathieu Tetrel combines art, architecture and design in his work. He feels a close affinity with Tadao Andō’s work in its pared-down spirit.

 Anastassia Tetrel, née Chugunova, is a visual artist who graduated from the Moscow State Academic Institute of Fine Arts and went on to study at the École supérieure d’art in Grenoble and the École supérieure d’art et design in Amiens. She will accompany you in reflecting upon and looking closely at Pirosmani’s paintings, which she has known since childhood, and will help you to implement your creative project.

Borrowing one of the approaches that characterizes her own art, Éléonore Dadoit Cousin invites you to “revisit” photography and create the first sheets and collages of your own series. First photographic, the work will become multimedial, mixing painting, collage, drawing and writing in order to reinvent and manually appropriate the printed images.

A visual artist who studied visual arts at Aix-Marseille University and went on to acquire a wealth of experience in artistic and cultural activities in Paris, Éléonore Dadoit Cousin is a visual arts teacher and an educational liaison officer at the Lambert Collection in Avignon. Since 2013 she has lived and worked in Villeneuve-lès-Avignon, where she regularly exhibits her works, most recently in 2018 with a solo show at Saint-André Abbey.
For the past eight years, she has created a collage every week from the pages of ELLE magazine, in what has now become a time-honoured artistic ritual. In this series, entitled Elle m’inspire, she allows herself just three tools: scissors, glue and the ELLE issue of the week – and nothing else.

Create your illustration combining drawing and digital design

If illustrating means translating an idea, a feeling or an emotion, it also means giving free rein to your imagination, your poetry and your inner world. It is like diving into the vastness of the ocean.
This makes it possible to enrich the idea, to show what is not said in the text, and thus to create a mutually enhancing relationship between text and images. This workshop is an invitation to take this journey, allowing unforeseen images to spring forth. Digital technology is a wonderful tool in this respect.
Your illustration will be developed out of drawings made in the traditional way, in pencil or pencil, and then scanned. The image thus created will surprise us in its treatment, its statement and its shape in resonance with your idea or inner feeling….

Pascale Breysse, a children’s illustrator and visual artist who has followed an atypical career, lives in her native Avignon. Her art mainly focuses on the living world, the link uniting humans and nature, and life in its holistic aspect. She draws inspiration from everyday life, from study, from poetry and, since 2013, from digital technology, which marked a turning point in her work as an illustrator. She has illustrated some twenty books and audio CDs for children; a new children’s book, 11 ours, will be published in September 2019 by L’Initiale.

Illustration : © Pascale Breysse

In the style of…

The artist Niko Pirosmani talks to us about Georgia, his Georgia! Life in the countryside, animals, nature and the Georgian people are painted with strength and emotion.

In this workshop, we invite you to create a work inspired by Niko Pirosmani’s paintings and at the same time by our own popular traditions here in the Arles region. Drawing on the resources of the CERCO Centre for the Study, Restoration and Conservation of Artworks at the Museum Arlaten, and with the accompaniment of Georgian artist Guela Tsouladzé, the black canvases will become true witnesses of contemporary traditions.

Born on 8 November 1959 in Tbilisi, Georgia, in 1977 Guela Tsouladzé enrolled at the State Academy of Arts in Tbilisi and subsequently went on to study at the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs in Paris.
It was in Paris that he met Christian Boltanski, becoming his assistant for two years. Tsouladzé exited classicism and painted on the floor in large formats. In 1993 he moved to New York and embarked on the Daily Bags series. Returning to Paris in 1998, he made his first short films, as well as tapestries in collaboration with local artisans. As part of his wide-ranging artistic activities, during this same period he also began setting poems by Jacques Prévert to music.
From solo shows to group exhibitions, from paintings on canvas to paintings on glass, from carpets to totemic thrones, from short films to music, Guela Tsouladzé never ceases to expand his idiom by keeping the heart of a child and by developing his curiosity.

Created at the instigation of the French poet Frédéric Mistral, the Museon Arlaten brings together more than 40,000 objects and documents, which tell the story of everyday life in the lower Rhône valley from the late 18th century right up to the present.
The Museon Arlaten is thus a place of memory dedicated to Provençal society. Furniture, paintings, costumes, art objects, everyday objects… the entire collection bears witness to a culture, a history and traditions which are all cultural expressions of identity. Under renovation until the end of 2019, the 19th-century museum of ethnography will become a 21st-century museum of society.

I like to say that illustrating is putting words into pictures; it is having a framework and enjoying yourself within in until you are ready to leave it, in complete freedom, without falsifying the subject but by enriching it. It is in this spirit that you will be invited to create an illustration: a portrait, your portrait, through an animal connected with the work of Niko Pirosmani.

Drawing, cutting out, playing with forms of expression, ways of seeing, with papers, colours, scissors… All these means will be at the service of your inner feeling, your emotions and your individuality. An original and singular translation will be born and will be combined as an adult-child duo into a diptych.

Pascale Breysse, a children’s illustrator and visual artist who has followed an atypical career, lives in her native Avignon. Her art mainly focuses on the living world, the link uniting humans and nature, and life in its holistic aspect. She draws inspiration from everyday life, from study, from poetry and, since 2013, from digital technology, which marked a turning point in her work as an illustrator. She has illustrated some twenty books and audio CDs for children; a new children’s book, 11 ours, will be published in September 2019 by L’Initiale.

A striking feature of Niko Pirosmani’s painting is the very “frontal” presentation of the characters, an approach that is ultimately quite similar to the photographic portraits of the late 19th and early 20th century. This leads us to think about the snapshot and its translation into photography, and from here to imagine “live” portraits in motion, taken mid-action.

The workshop will fall into two parts:

Stories of daily life
Starting from a selection of old photographs of scenes from everyday life, we shall exercise our imaginations with the aid of writing and the spoken word.

Revolving portraits
Inspired by the “revolving” self-portrait created in 1865 by French photographer Nadar, each participant will create a revolving portrait in twelve poses. The final step will be to turn this portrait into an animated sequence (in GIF format). This workshop will thus explore the portrait, the snapshot and the way in which still images can be set in motion.

Artistic director and graphic designer Nathalie Bossard graduated from the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs in 1984, and today teaches visual communication. She is particularly interested in the visual concept, photographic and graphic notation as well as the complementarity between text and image.
In 2017, after completing a professional qualification as a photographer-educator with the Réseau Diagonal, she founded “L’image en jeu”, an association of creative workshops centred on photography, with the desire to share her approach to the image with a wider audience.

TADAO ANDO
La Table de Niko Pirosmani, 2018
Plexiglas, métal et fleurs
700 × 180 × 140 cm
Infinitart Foundation

For the duration of the exhibition, the Fondation has been transformed into a veritable Noah’s Ark! Animals – “the friends of my heart”, as Niko Pirosmani called them – invade the galleries: giraffe, lion, camel, stag, hare, wild boar, eagle… Real or imaginary, they will all whisper their secrets in your ear and carry you with them on their wild adventures!

NIKO PIROSMANI
Chevreuil sur fond de paysage, 1913
Huile sur carton
98 × 71 cm
Musée national de Géorgie, musée des beaux-arts Shalva-Amiranashvili, Tbilissi
Inv. n^o 184

The gateway marks a border, a transition between two worlds, so let’s leave our reality behind and enter this imaginary universe…

RAPHAELA VOGEL
Loch (Gregorianisches Loch) / Trou (Loch de Gregor), 2018
Polyuréthane, élastomère, nains de jardins en céramique
245 × 266 × 8 cm
Avec l’aimable autorisation de l’artiste et de la galerie Gregor Staiger, Zurich
Photo F. Deladerrière

VINCENT VAN GOGH
L’Arlésienne (Madame Ginoux), Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, février 1890
Huile sur toile
60 × 50 cm
Galleria nazionale d’Arte moderna e contemporanea, Rome