The Nouveau Printemps festival returns for a second edition from May 30 to June 30. Its objective is to invite an artist each year to bring their creative vision to a district of the city. This year, it is the Carmes/Saint-Étienne district which is being honored by filmmaker and author Alain Guiraudie. For this new edition, the event brings together around twenty contemporary artists who, together, offer to explore the neighborhood from a creative angle through a unique journey. p>
A festival of contemporary creation
In 2023, Printemps de Septembre became Le Nouveau Printemps and invited designermatali crassetto invest in the Saint-Cyprien district. While the first edition imagined by Matali Crasset was interested in living things and communities, that of Alain Guiraudie, author and director, plunges us into the uncertainties of a fantasized future, between lightness and worry with the desire to question the codes in force, to renew the idea of beauty, or to blur the boundaries between beauty and ugliness.
The artists have taken up this proposition and offer works on the border between reality and science fiction, the ideal and the illusory. The invited artists usevaried techniques and materials, theirinspirations are diverseand mix science and spirituality. Carrying a message, their creations invite you to question yourself...
After the simple representation of the world, it is a long-standing challenge in the art of bringing together the ideal and the real, the mythical and the prosaic, the dream and the reality, to even make them collide. Alain Guiraudie
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Projections, installations, photographic series…
It is a multitude of works that constitute the event: video installations, sculptures, films, immersive and interactive scenography, drawings, photo exhibitions… The proposals are eclecticand allow you to discover the universe of each artist. Whether you have an aesthetic eye or a great curiosity, Le Nouveau Printemps invites you to share a unique artistic parenthesis. Throughout the festival, a team of mediators offers exhibition visits and free tours in the neighborhood to better discover the works that make up the festival.
A creative journey to explore in different key places in the neighborhood
The Nouveau Printemps invests several spaces in Carmes/Saint-Étienne and thus creates a realcreative journey to explore. Exhibitions and installations are held in particular in the Cour Baragnon, in the Cour Saint-Anne, in the Royal Garden, at the Hôtel Saint-Jean as well as at the Monument to the Glory of the Resistance. must-see cultural placesalso welcome artistic creations such as the Musée des Augustins, the Bemberg Foundation or the Musée des Arts-Précieux Paul-Dupuy.
For the occasion, everyday spaces are transformed into exhibition spaces: this is the case of the Carmes Marketand its parking, as well as the archaeological crypt of the Palais de Justice.
It is also a major challenge to seek beauty where it is not found, to create objects of desire where we would not have believed. - Alain Guiraudie
Weekend d Festive opening, screening evenings, meetings
Many events are expected as part of the festival. The festivities begin on May 30, with a livelyopening weekend! On the program: free access to exhibitions until 10 p.m., performances, concerts, screenings... But also meetings with the artists guests.
animations will take place throughout the festival such as a performance by Karelle Ménine in the Grand'Chambre of the Palais de Justice but also a day of meetings “Artists and territory(ies)” in partnership with the Ateliers des Arques . An art editions fair in collaboration with the Air de Midi network will take place, as well as a screening and meeting evening at the Cinémathèque dedicated to the work of Alain Guiraudie. During La Nuit des Cours, you will be able to watch films by artists in courtyards of private hotels in the area in collaboration with the Loop festival in Barcelona. A unique screening with Arte, live italo-disco performances in Tony Regazzoni's installation and many other surprises are expected!
Art, at least the one that interests me, seeks to question the codes in force, renew the idea of beauty, or to blur the boundaries between beauty and ugliness. - Alaine Guiraudie