On April 24, six students from the National School of Fine Arts in Paris will open the wood oven of the Manufacture de Sèvres that they lit on March 29, filled with 60 vases painted by them. On March 12, Marjane Satrapi, at the Manufacture des Gobelins, cut the warp yarns that held the tapestry she drew from the loom.
Two strong gestures, respective symbols of the completion of a masterpiece, in the long and proven tradition of the extraordinary world of crafts. Two emblematic gestures of the influence of French know-how, much appreciated worldwide. Two gestures, finally, that illustrate the future rapprochement of these establishments in a public pole of the crafts.
A showcase for the Gobelins and Beauvais straighteners
Marjane Satrapi is no longer to be introduced. Bestselling author of PersepolisAn extraordinary comic strip epic recounting her youth in Tehran, the Franco-Iranian woman symbolizes better than anyone the adherence to the values of Paris 2024. « We were looking for an artist who has a very visual style of expression, who also carries in his reflection, his discourse, the values of universalism on the one hand, the French values on the other hand ” said Hervé Lemoine, Director of Mobilier National.
For this order, the artist had to follow precise specifications, listing a number of symbolic elements. The left part of the tapestry echoes the Olympic Games of Paris 1924 by using the iconography of the javelin thrower. The central section, featuring a man and a woman carrying the torch under the Eiffel Tower, highlights that for the first time in the history of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, an equivalent number of men and women athletes will take part. The right side refers to modernity and innovation: hip hop and skateboarding, new Olympic disciplines. ' It was necessary to include such blue color, Paris, the world, gender parity, day, night, new sports… "explains Marjane Satrapi, when she fell off the job.
The public will be able to discover the tapestry during its hanging on the facade of the Hôtel de la Marine, Place de la Concorde, on the occasion of the music festival on June 21. Then from July 26 to August 11, it will be presented in a Parisian venue in connection with the Games, which has not yet been unveiled. The triptych will then leave the capital to join the collections of the National Sports Museum in Nice.
Honouring the French medallists
The Cité de la céramique – Sèvres and Limoges, meanwhile, partnered with the Ecole nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris to ask six students to create vases rewarding future French Olympic and Paralympic gold medallists. Ece Bal, Thomas Besset, Sacha Floch Poliakoff, Samya Moineaud, Nassim Sarni and Domitille Siergé are the young graduates of the School whose creations were chosen to be painted on «Blois vases». They were welcomed in Sèvres to materialize their project with the help of the craftsmen of the manufacture, which allowed them to carry out many cooking tests, in a process of transmission of know-how.
These vases were placed in a 19th century wood oven, renovated for the occasion. The oven was set on fire on 29 March and echoed the arrival of the Olympic flame. This exceptional cooking will last thirty-three hours, at a temperature of around 1300°C. It will then take almost a month for the porcelain to completely cool, otherwise crack it out of the oven.
« These works will last for centuries potentially. We are very happy to put a spotlight on the craftsmen of art, people we see little but who have a crazy talent "says Hervé Lemoine, welcoming the collaboration of historical artistic institutions with Paris 2024.
A new public administrative institution built on a federal principle.
This establishment will bring together and promote each of the historical entities of which it will be constituted: the manufacture of Sèvres; the national museum of ceramics of Sèvres; the national museum Adrien Dubouché of Limoges; the national furniture and its workshop of research and creation; the manufacture des Gobelins; the manufacture de Beauvais; the manufacture de la Savonnerie and its workshops in Paris and Lodève; the lace workshops of Alençon and Puy-en-Velay.
Each entity will be valued for its specificity and its name. Far from being exclusively Parisian and centralized, this multiple establishment, rich in its collections and museums, will allow thanks and its workshops and manufactures present in the region to carry high the government will in the fields of crafts and creation.
Six major areas of cooperation between these entities have been clearly identified: training, research, creation, support for the fragile ecosystem of crafts, the promotion of material cultures and gesture, national and international influence. These six areas of cooperation make it possible to better take into account specific issues such as ecological transition and eco-responsibility, production based on redesigned economic models, support for territorial poles in particular.
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