Graduates from the École supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Nîmes were invited to exhibit their works presented in June for the defense of their diploma, or even to produce some.
This exhibition makes it possible to support these young artists at the very beginning of their professional career, by entrusting the project to the artist and curator, Sébastien Pons. The “Done” exhibition can be viewed online at esba-nimes.fr.
The Alumni Exhibition celebrates this special moment in which studies are coming to an end. The artistic approaches presented bear witness to an inventory and constitute the starting point of the artist’s long and precious journey.
This unprecedented year, this extraordinary context due to the confinement linked to the coronavirus pandemic, experienced by all, has probably influenced the actions and chronologies of certain processes. Thus introspection, necessary for the artistic process, was undoubtedly nourished by the imposed isolation and allowed a communication largely upstream of the habits.
Indeed, very often the realization of the portfolio, component of the mediation essential to the story of the artist, arrives once the diploma obtained (index if it is of the opening towards the other and the public…). This year, however, he was one of the elements of the reflection and of the work that is taking place. It has become an active tool for understanding the work. Rather than focusing on the advantages (and disadvantages) of the covid context, the commissioner favors “facts”. This exhibition focuses on simply showing what the artist does: works.
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“The latter naturally testify to the commitment and the will to build a subject. They also invite us by their number and the associations they induce to travel, to question us about the singularities and to confront us with their poetic and political dimensions: to make sense and polarize our presence in order to finally be together.“This text is by Sébastien Pons, visual artist and curator.
He is particularly involved in the artist collective The country where the sky is always blue, Orleans. His works have been presented in several museums such as the Beaux-Arts in Orléans or the Museum of the History of Medicine in Paris. He has participated in numerous group exhibitions in Berlin, Nantes, Paris, Beijing, Rennes and Rotterdam.
With works by Salomé Angel, Sara Bernasconi, Antoine Bondu, Flora Bongiovanni, Olivia Bonnafoux, Marick Bosschem, Cécile Cantabella, Charlène Carmona, Camille Castillon, Geoffrey Chautard, Arnaud Guy, Fanny Hugot-Conte, Thibault Imbert, Chenhao Li, Clara Nebinger , Édouard Paris, Jingyue Zhang (graduated from Dnsep in June 2020).
To take the online visit, it’s here.
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