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The spectacular boom in artist residencies

2021-06-19T16:11:36.789Z


INVESTIGATION - Yesterday there was the wash house. Today, whether they are graduates or not, artists are offered workshops within institutions or foundations. Some real estate developers also lend their places before work.


Artists without fixed residence, ASF.

This is not entirely new.

It is even the legend of old Paris, then the cradle of modern art in Europe.

There was the Bateau-Lavoir in Montmartre, a historic place of the avant-garde and welcoming land of the young Picasso at the very beginning of the 20th century.

But, a place

"dilapidated, pitiful, with a point of drinking water for about thirty workshops"

, tells the historian Annie Cohen-Solal in

A stranger named Picasso

(Fayard).

Disappeared in the fire of 1970, it was rebuilt identically, but in concrete behind the only preserved facade (25 glass artists' studios).

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There is still La Ruche, a marvel located at 2, passage Dantzig, in Paris (15th district).

It was born in 1900 from the generosity of the sculptor Alfred Boucher (1850-1934), who acquired the Gironde wine pavilion, designed by Gustave Eiffel for the Universal Exhibition of 1900. Today, around fifty artists work there. and one of their elders, the designer Ernest Pignon-Ernest, 79,

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Source: lefigaro

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