Summer School in Gattières
Theme: Aspects of French Local, Regional and National Cultural Policy and Visual Arts
Schedule -- Summer 2007 (for additional photographs please click here: choose a day and click on slideshow)
Tuesday July 3
Afternoon Activities
- Walking Tour of Gattières with Dr. Carl Wahren former Head of the Aid Management Division of the OECD
- Welcome toast in his candlelit medieval cellar.
Evening Activities
Georges Rasse’s family-owned winery in Saint Jeannet; where we tasted local produce and were given a local history of the region by M. Rasse.
- Discussion with M. Rasse's son who works in Peru and France as an artist, who sells from the winery and whose work is used on the labels..
- Guest lecturer: Dr. Patrick Griolet.
Author of numerous works on Cajun and Creole culture
- Film: Homage to Chagall on Chagall’s life and work
Wednesday July 4
Morning Activities
- Visit Chagall National Museum in Nice
- and Musee d’art moderne et d ’art contemporain in Nice where Gilbert Perlein (the director) – gave a tour of Michelangelo Pistoletto’s retrospective exhibition and engaged in discussion on Arts Management in Europe.
- Visit to artist Sosno and his Studio. Sosno is from the Ecole de Nice and is an artist of international renown. Sosno discussed his work and how he managed his career as an artist.
Afternoon Activities
- Classes in Gattières with Professor Guillet de Monthoux and Dr Bereson. Presentation of group projects
Evening Activities
- Evening dinner in the village of Gattières chez Roger with Professor Romain Laufer.
- Film: A Model for Matisse: The Story of the Vence Chapel"
on Sister Jacques-Marie and Matisse’s Rosary Chapel
Thursday July 5
Morning Activities
Excursions
- Malongo Coffee manufacturers tour by public relations officer (Paula) on Fair Trade Practices and Arts and Management at Malongo Coffee
- Rosary Chapel designed by Matisse in Vence
The Fondation Maeght, St Paul de Vence - Walking tour of St Paul de Vence
Afternoon Activities
- Guest lecturer: Professor Romain Laufer Chair of Marketing HEC, Paris on Art and Marketing: Aesthetics Performance and Uncertainty: Celebrating the French Revolution: 1789-1889-1989
Evening Activities
- Dinner in village restaurant
- Film: Jean Cocteau
Friday July 6
All day visit to Fondation Hartung-Bergman in Antibes.
- Guest lecturer: Director and artist François Hers.
- The morning session was devoted to the collection and management of the Fondation Hartung-Bergman.
- In the afternoon Francois Hers discussed his project Les nouveaux commanditaires: (The New Patrons) “to shape the relationships between society, its artists and their works in a contemporary way to shape a new arts scene”
- encountered Professor Serge Guilbaut author of How New York Stole the idea of Modern Art
- Lectures on bus by Professor Guillet de Monthoux on The Art Firm and the importance of philosophy in art and business
Early evening
- Lecture by Professor Graeme Sullivan, TC Columbia University on the Venice Biennale, 2007
- Film: First of the Trilogy Marius, Fanny, Cesar
Saturday July 7
Morning Activities
Panel Discussion: “A Debate between the Past and the Future”
- Visiting speakers: Dr. Carl Wahren, Dominique Landucci (Artist), Raphael (Malongo), the Mayor of du Broc, M. Emile Tornatore, and Moϊse Duhamelle (Member of the Nice National Orchestra and Municipal Counsellor), Cristiana Bottigella (Cittadellarte Fondazione Pistoletto Biella Italy) Topics included: the alliance between Gattières, Le Broc and Carros and the cultural and political benefits of the alliance, cultural policy in the region and the structure of French associations (the French equivalent of the American 501 (c)(3))
Afternoon Activities
- Visit artists' studios and local area
- A walking tour through the village of Carros which featured a stop at the Association d’Artistes Plasticiens and the Centre international d’art contemporain where Director Frédéric Brandi gave a tour of the space. Artist Dominique Landucci’s studio
- Visit to artist Daniel Fillod’s studio and to the Salle Ecovie: Espace Convivial du Vivre Ensemble where he was commissioned to paint the ceilings of a variety of spaces.
Early Evening
- Presentation by artist Mary Sullivan on her recent exhibition Wood meets paper
Evening
Gala Dinner at Hotel
- Music by Dominique Landucci’s band
Summer 2007
Tuesday 3 July - Sunday 8 July 2007
Summer Workshop. Gattières, France
This summer school is designed to provide participants with a knowledge of international aspects of arts management. Located near Nice in the South of France, Gattières is a commune comprising 4,000 inhabitants, 800 of whom live in the old village. The church of Saint Blaise protects the village and this saint is celebrated annually by a festival held on February 4. There is an opera festival, and the recently opened ECAM contemporary Art Space 'Le Jardin' was inaugurated by Michelangelo Pistoletto in 2004. The village is located near thriving artistic centres such as St Paul de Vence, Nice and the Fondation Maeght. This area is close to important international summer arts exhibition and festival sites such as the Avignon Theatre Festival, Aix en Provence Opera Festival, the Venice Biennale and Documenta in Kassel Germany .
ACADEMIC PROGRAM
The academic program combines formal classes, site specific excursions which use the regional arts centres as fieldwork, and seminar style discussions. Participants will undertake an intensive course of study starting daily at 9am with formal classes with leading professionals and academics in the field. The afternoon sessions are field work and the evening sessions are analytical seminars. The format is intensive and inter-disciplinary and participants will develop lateral skills in the field as they learn to apply the theory developed in the morning classes to analysis of the institutions which they visit in the afternoons and in the evenings lecturers will be invited to join the program participants over dinner for lively seminar style discussions about the day's classes and activities. As Gattières is situated in one of the most densely populated regions for galleries in Europe, classes will be complemented by field excursions to the galleries, museums and performing arts venues which comprise the Fondation Maeght near St Paul de Vence, the Chagall, Dufy, Matisse, Pop Art museums in Nice which is also the home of Arman, Ben, Yves Klein, Nivese, Sosno and Ceasar.
THE FACULTY
The workshop is organized and hosted by Professor Pierre Guillet de Monthoux, Distinguished Affiliated Scholar to the UB Arts Management Program and Dr Ruth Bereson, Director UB Arts Management Program. The preliminary program includes Professor Romain Laufer, Professor of Marketing at HEC, Paris and Professor Alladi Venkatesh Graduate School of Management University of California, Irvine as well as Arts Managers from the region.
OTHER OPPORTUNITIES
Participants may also choose to attend academic conferences in the fields of arts and management and aesthetics which occur in Europe in summer. This year they may wish to attend Documenta in Kassel and participate in the Nomadic University's program which offers postgraduate students, researchers and leaders within culture and economy a platform to develop and reflect on questions concerning the synergies between art and economy from a global and European perspective.