The public order
The public order is the manifestation of a will associating the State (Ministry of Culture) and multiple partners (local authorities, public institutions or private partners), to contribute to the enrichment of the living environment and the development of the national heritage, by the presence of works of art outside the only institutions specialized in the field of contemporary art.
It also aims to provide artists with a tool allowing them to carry out projects whose scope, stakes or dimension require unusual means.
Public commissions therefore refer both to an object - art which, when leaving its reserved spaces, seeks to meet the population in its places of life and in the public space - and to a procedure marked by different stages, from the sponsor’s initiative to the artist’s production and public reception.
This voluntarist device gave a new breath to public art. Present in all kinds of places, from urban space to nature, from gardens to historic monuments, from tourist sites to the new space that is the Internet, contemporary art in the public space involves an extraordinary variety of plastic expressions and artistic disciplines: from sculpture to design, from crafts to new media, from photography to graphic design, not forgetting landscape, light, video, etc.
Order Initiative
This procedure, originally conducted by the State, is now widely relayed by various sponsors who initiate more and more projects by benefiting from the advice and support of advisors to the plastic arts in DRAC. In addition to municipalities, local and regional authorities that have allowed the integration of contemporary art works in new urban programs or events, other sponsors, including clergy and hospital services, have recently carried out major orders programmes.
Whatever the sponsor and his expectation, the desired artistic intervention must not be limited to the implantation of a "single" sculpture, called monument, or even to decoration works. It must be considered in its context (geographical, architectural, social, etc.) and considered according to a methodology defined accordingly.
Contact
Consultants for the plastic arts:
Mathieu BORDES - 05 55 45 66 77 - mathieu.bordes@culture.gouv.fr for departments 16, 19, 23 ,24, 79, 86, 87
Bertrand FLEURY - 05 57 95 01 67 - bertrand.fleury@culture.gouv.fr for departments 17, 33, 40, 47, 64, 79