Présentation

Projet Comenius 2010-2012 du Lycée Victor Hugo de Marseille:

"L'Europe des arts, creuset des identités plurielles."

Qui sommes nous?

Voici l'équipe Comenius du Lycée général Victor Hugo de Marseille:

Nicole VILLAIN : Professeur d'arts plastiques et d'histoire des arts. .

Muriel BENISTY : Professeur d’anglais. Enseigne le cinéma dans les options Histoire des arts.

Corinne CHAPEL : Professeur d’anglais.

Delphine COHEN : Professeur d’italien.

Didier NIETO : Professeur d’espagnol.

Jean-Roger RIBAUD: Proviseur du Lycée Victor Hugo



mercredi 23 février 2011

Cultural Event at Royal Atheneum Ostend
 (17-18th of February 2011)


Graffiti-wall created by students and monitor on 17th and 18th February
cULTUUR@THENé n°2: Newsletter
Contents:
p. 1:  Graffiti-wall: creation;
p. 2: meeting with Mieke Drossaert, paintress;
p. 3: creation of environmental art/comics;
p. 4: meeting with sculptor Irenee Duriez.
Newsletter in Dutch:
http://www.krantenmaker.be/dvp/kmpreview.php?id=30167

lundi 21 février 2011

Open letter to everyone : What’s up with our project ?
As you know, we’re setting up an art exhibition about the topic :
« Art in Europe : a melting pot of plural identities »
How did we start this THING ?

First , we visited several art places showing contemporary art.
There are two famous places near our school :la friche de la belle de
mai and le FRAC. The Friche is an ex- factory of tobacco and
matches transformed into a contemporary art center , it’s just round
the corner but very few students knew about it !
The FRAC is a collection of regional and international works of
contemporary art.
First, we were a bit lost in this new unknown world especially if you
don’t understand what the artists mean with their works!
But then, little by little , we visited many exhibitions with the help of
specialists and we found out that contemporary art can be fun !
Instant Narrative

dimanche 13 février 2011

Uniurb – 28 gennaio Conference by Salvatore Settis


Friday, January 28 at 11am in the Throne Room of the Palazzo Ducale in Urbino, Salvatore Settis, from the Scuola Normale in  Pisa, held a conference entitled "Protection of cultural heritage and national identity".
The event is part of the celebrations for the 150th anniversary of Italy’s unification,  under the patronage of the Superintendency for the Historic, Artistic and Ethno-anthropological Heritage of the Marche region.


We have reflected and discussed upon the topic of landscape with the contribution of interventions  by Salvatore Settis.

Salvatore Settis, archaeologist and art historian, since 1985 professor of classical archeology and art history at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, for eleven years, he was also Director, a position he left last October, at the beginning of the new academic year. Also controversial was the resignation in February 2009 from the Higher Council for Cultural Heritage and Landscape at the Ministry of Culture Heritage, where he had been President since 2006.

In the tv programme “Che tempo che fa” he presented his latest book “Landscape- Constitution Cement - The battle for the environment against degradation”.



The topic of landscape is of great interest at the moment and  the subject is producing a lot of  literature.
The risk is that we are running to irreparably damage the land, and we could not leave to posterity what we have inherited.

"The space we live in is never 'neutral'. It was natural space, with its continuity and its disruption, until men started to impress their signs, turning it deeply to their likeness. The space of man (...) is the reflection and memory of history and society, indeed of history and society that have shaped it through the ages, that shape it today for tomorrow’s men and women". 
(From Landscape Constitution cement, Salvatore Settis, Torino 2010)

The cement is covering an area overly large and not proportionate to the needs of man, only in Italy during the years 1995/2006 it  consumed an  area as large as Umbria (Istat).
The difference with the past is that our ancestors jealously guarded and moderately used it.
Speaking of our region, the landscape suggests with its shape the profile of its inhabitants who lived until a few decades ago in symbiosis with the earth. The sacral consideration with which they have given the crops a strict, linear, geometric shape, the correct location of any building in harmony with the environment reveals their essential, practical and efficient character.

The territory, and then the landscape, exactly mirrors the population that inhabits and transforms it. The modern civilization is more responsible for the alteration and transfiguration of the landscape than all previous eras, with the obvious result of having depleted the heritage  that
previous generations have left us.

From our point of view   it is important for  us, as students,  and our contemporaries to be aware  of environmental issues. As a consequence  we have thought of some initiatives that could suggest a reflection  and  by combining the matter with artists, environmental historians and scholars that have dealt with  this theme.