Le Transpalette - Bourges (18)
Created in 1997 and managed by the Emmetrop association, Le Transpalette is a place of artistic exhibition and experimentation dedicated to contemporary art.
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Housed in a former hardware workshop, the building is one of the few examples of functionalist architecture in the Centre-Val de Loire region.
Since 2011, Le Transpalette has been recognized by the Association nationale de Développement des Centres d'Art (D.C.A), as one of 49 existing contemporary art centres in France and the second contemporary art centre (after the CCC) identified in the Centre-Val de Loire region.
ARTIS PROJECTCULTURE AND CULTURE
The identity of the programming was largely marked by the fact of producing works in close dialogue with the particular architecture of this building with its modernist vocabulary. Many artists have passed through its walls, including: Saâdane Afif, Pierre Ardouvin, Daniel Buren, Alain Declercq, Wang Du, Laurent Faulon, Claude Lévêque, Guillaume Janot, Nicolas Moulin, Philippe Rahm, Jean-Michel Sanejouand, Mickael Snow, Kristina Solomoukha, Lawrence Weiner and many others. New and unusual modes of exposure have often been attempted.
A second period began in 2004 with the end of curatorial activity(1) Jérôme Poret, who directed the artistic programming from 1998 to 2003. Since 2004, but especially since 2007, several curators have been invited on an ad hoc basis to create monographic or thematic exhibitions in fields as diverse as sound, architecture or even design. It was then a question of reaffirming this place as a space whose function was to question the frontiers of art.
Since 2009, Jérôme Cotinet-Alphaize and Damien Sausset have been appointed artistic co-directors alongside Eric Noulette, founder, with Frédérique Marciniak, of the association Emmetrop. A new artistic project is being established today that combines curatorial experimentation;(1) and the multi-disciplinarity that makes the particularity of the cultural wasteland of the Antre-Peaux(2). The Pallet Jack works in partnership with a large local, regional and national network.
The strengthening of the link between creation and mediation is today another axis of development. The mediation is based on the construction of an educational program with the Department of Cher and public schools and schools, the development of a Public Office and the organization of seminars with students and teachers from universities and art schools in the region.
ACTUALITE 2015
The rehabilitation of the wasteland of Antre-Peaux and, more particularly, of the contemporary art centre - Le Transpalette, is the last of the major projects underway in the field of plastic arts in the Centre-Val de Loire region.
Due to the work, 2015 is a year of programming and interventions outside the walls.
To celebrate Emmetrop' 30th birthday, Claude Lévêque built a project entitled "Human Gender" around a guest curator surrounded by artists representative of modern and contemporary art (Joseph Beuys, Michel Journiac, Martin Kinpenberger, Annette Messager, Christian Boltanski, Mona Hatoum, David Hammons, Pierre Huygue, etc.)"
Since the Pallet Truck is unavailable for the year 2015, it was decided to set up an exhibition outside the walls, in the Jacques Coeur Palace(3) . The group exhibition will be based on small-scale works. It will be complemented by video programming and an abstract sound narrative composed especially by Gerome Nox. Museum principles will be guided by accessibility.
A second exceptional event by its magnitude and its influence will mark 2015. Following the request of the State Services (DRAC) and the Region Centre-Val de Loire, the Pallet Truck was charged with designing and ensuring the curation of a national event: the Triennale d'art contemporain de Vendôme. This event (inaugurated on 22 May 2015) showcases 25 artists from the Centre-Val de Loire region. Twenty of them benefited in particular from the creation aid schemes set up by the State and the Region.
In 2016, the reopening of the Transpalette, after work, backed by a redefined artistic project, should enable the Centre d'Art de Bourges to find the means for new ambitions and strengthened challenges.
Sources: DRAC; Emmetrop (2015 project)
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(1)curatorial : relevant to the activity of "curator"
(2) L'Antre-Peaux : name of the collective association managing the industrial wasteland (former Leising workshops) and, by extension, the wasteland itself. This collective, created in 2003, is composed of four associative structures: Emmetrop, Mille-Univers (typographic workshop), Bandits-Mages (audio-visual and multimedia arts) and Nez dans les Etoiles (circus school).
(3) Jacques Coeur Palace. Hosting contemporary art events is one of the missions entrusted to the Jacques Coeur Palace within the framework of the Culture Pact signed on April 30 between the State (Ministry of Culture and Communication), the City of Bourges and the Bourges Plus Agglomeration Community.
To learn more about the cultural pact.
(4) Leising Workshops : Construction materials manufacturing plant.
Jacob Leiseing, an entrepreneur, founded Leiseing et fils in the early 1900s. His first major masonry project in Bourges was the construction of the Berry Hotel (1926) near the station. At the end of the 1920s, the Leiseing factory on the Chapelle road was built. The Jacob Leiseing company also owns land near Les Sablonnières, which is used for the extraction of sand, stones and the free-drying of woodworking wood. The archives of the former company Leiseing et fils are deposited in the Departmental Archives of Cher under the number 72J1-29. They are not communicable. Currently the buildings shelter the cultural wasteland the Antre-Peaux.
Source: "Mérimée" database http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/inventai/patrimoine/
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