In 2019, 22,000 visitors flocked to the Halle des Grésillons, in Gennevilliers, to admire some 260 works of art loaned by 53 communities, on the occasion of the first edition of “Treasures of suburbs”.
Building on this success, the city of Gennevilliers and the Académie des Banlieues association will reissue this original exhibition by bringing together, next fall, 250 works mainly from the municipal collections of 71 communities in Île-de-France, but also in Seine. -Maritime or Bouches-du-Rhône.
Taxi de la Marne, reliquary containing a lock of Napoleon Bonaparte's hair or even a sculpture of Coluche's overalls usually enthroned on the Place de la Libération in Montrouge: the selection announced is as abundant as it is colorful.
“Treasures of the Suburbs is built on the ethics of the fraternity of the arts,” underlined the curator of the exhibition, Noël Coret, during a press conference organized this Thursday at the town hall of Gennevilliers.
There is no major or minor art, the only important thing is the emotion that a work conveys.
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“Celebrating the artistic wealth of peripheral neighborhoods”
From comics to sculpture, including photography, painting and architectural models: the spotlight on the suburbs, their artists and inhabitants promises a journey through eras and styles.
Divided into eleven themes, they will share the scenography installed in the 1,200 m² of the Chanteraines factory, avenue du Général-de-Gaulle, near the RER C and Tramway T1.
As a nod to the many municipalities in the inner and outer suburbs of the Ile-de-France region who collaborated on this unique project, the 2024 exhibition is called “Crowns of Humanity”.
“Terres desuburbs was designed to celebrate the artistic wealth of peripheral neighborhoods,” recalls the mayor (PCF) of Gennevilliers, Patrice Leclerc.
We often create in the suburbs and exhibit in Paris.
There, we exhibit with pride in the suburbs, fertile lands where artistic diversity thrives.
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