Vantoux : l’artiste international Jean-Pierre Raynaud inaugure la Galerie Nathan-Chiche dans l’ancienne école Prouvé

The article

On 17 May 2024, the day after the opening, Lisa Lagrange reports on the website of Le Républicain Lorrain on the inauguration of Galerie Nathan Chiche. The short introductory text sees a symbolic gesture in devoting to art a work by Jean Prouvé, the school closed since 2014, and gives the gallery's opening hours: Thursday to Saturday, 2 pm to 6 pm.

The article proceeds mainly through images. The photographs show Jean-Pierre Raynaud's vanitas pieces placed on the school furniture that the municipality of Vantoux had kept, then hung on the wall. The captions recall that the artist, whose work is in the collections of the Centre Pompidou, MoMA and the Guggenheim Bilbao, usually exhibits in museums rather than galleries, and that he insists on speaking of an encounter rather than an exhibition.

The report also mentions the project of the two co-founders, Nathan Chicheportiche and his mother, who wish to bring disciplines together by offering talks, exhibitions and concerts: musicians played on the day of the inauguration. Finally, archive photographs by Gilles Wirtz recall that the school, built just after the Second World War by Jean and Henri Prouvé, is listed as a historic monument. The interview with the artist is the subject of a separate article published the same day.

Read the article on the Le Républicain Lorrain website ↗