curator & scenography : Alexandra Maringer
: partners :
Austrian Cultural Forum in Paris / director : Mario Vielgrader
Amiens Métropole – Service for Culture and Cultural Heritage / referee : Nicolas Henssien
Karikaturmuseum Krems / artistic director : Gottfried Gusenbauer
On a Marché sur la Bulle / director : Pascal Mériaux
ESAD / director : Barbara Dennys
DESSINER LA PAIX is a collection of thoughts, ideas and initiatives. It raises awareness of what peace is and can be, and of how much it depends on each and everyone of us.
The shown artworks exploit caricature, paradox, provocation and other devices; all of them stage different peace initiatives and display at the same time their limits, to demonstrate the fragility of the idea of peace both in the past and today.
.
In 2016 the Austrian Cultural Forum asked me, to bring an Austrian exhibition on the dove of peace to Amiens for 2018 – the centenary of the end of WWI: The show called Drawing for Peace (2014) had been assembled by the Museum of Caricature in Krems. In Amiens I found an excellent partner in Amiens Métropole, who integrated the show into its program Amiens, another perspective on the Great War.
I completely revisited the initial collection, and enlarged it with 40 artworks dating from 1899 to 2018. To put the question of peace in a broader context, I initiated collaborations with two related institutions in Amiens: The RENDEZ-VOUS DE LA BANDE DESSINÉE d’Amiens (a festival for Comic Art organised by the association On a Marché sur la Bulle) and ESAD (École supérieure d’Art et de Design – University for Art and Design).
The scenography (sofas, newspapers, fresh coffee) evokes the ambience of a Viennese café and invites you to take a break: The CIAP (Centre d’Interprétation de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine) became a place encouraging encounters and conversations.
. . . . .
media / press
(e)nglish, (g)erman, (f)rançais
– DESSINER LA PAIX / DRAWING PEACE / DEN FRIEDEN ZEICHNEN –
(e) (g) (f) online catalog
– L’art au service de la paix à Amiens –
(f) reportage by Camille Dicrescenzo, Etienne Breil, Fabien Desgardins
France 3 Picardie, 06.09.2018
– De l’Autriche aux colombes –
(f) portrait by Jean-Christoph Fouquet – JDA 878 / 23.05.2018
– La paix sur tous les fronts –
(f) article by Coline Bergeon – JDA 882 / 20.06.2018
– Premières “Traces” de la Grande Guerre –
(f) article by Daniel Muraz – Le Courrier (+), 22.05.2018
. . . . .
credits
– Amiens Métropole + Austrian Cultural Forum –
.
.
: On a Marché sur la Bulle | Traces de la Grande Guerre :
Charlie Adlard, Simon Armitage, Edmond Baudoin, Dave McKean, Riff Reb’s, Bryan, Mary Talbot
.
: ESAD :
professors : Arnaud de la Bâtie, Rémi Dumas-Primbault
students : Juliette Ah-Chine, Jean-baptiste Burguet, Corentin Corneau, Lucie Coupin, Alexandre d’Hubert, Constant de Beauvais, Marie de Villoutreys, Estelle Dion, Basile Dollfus, Capucine Dromby, Blanche Dumon, Pauline Etre, Lea Fernandez, Emma Geslot, Pauline Haillet, Enora Jaouen, Ayasha Khan, Nathan Le Bras, Julie Lemoine, Raphaël Licoine-Mercy, Justine Magnat Bierme, Julie Nesty, Gaëlle Parachini, Camille Potiron de Boisfleury, Paul Rivet, Louise Servan, Camille Ternois, Richard Terrazzoni, Emilie-anna Thibierge, Maulde Vallejo, Nicolas Verguin
.
: réalisation :
graphic design : Gilles Conte
rewriting of texts in English and French : Nicolas Hennssien, Rob Watson
title translations : Frederic Vincendon, Timothy Williams
proof-reading : Megan Laurent
installations : Atelier Van Hoorebeke, SAMCO
prints : Imprimerie Amiens Métropole, Atelier Van Hoorebeke
framing : Bruno Garnier / Atelier G
vegetalisation : Jardin des Plantes / Amiens Métropole
.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
