A private initiative for public interests
Contemporary Art | Contemporary art festivals blossom in the summer and form a cultural fabric showcasing live art and bringing value to the regions. Their financial lung depends mainly on the desires of public authorities, estimated public interest and public subsidies, which are today opening themselves to the participation of sponsors. Part of this blossoming, the Festival International Alpilles Provence in the Alpilles stands out by reversing this French model.
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Chiharu Shiota, State of Being, Eglise Saint-Laurent à Eygalières
© Courtesy de l’artiste & Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris / Bernard Lecointe, 2013
A private initiative, private partners, public interest, this is the model put in place by Leïla Voight, an art-lover and collector, the brains behind an organization which evades administrative red tape. It has the distinctive feature of federating the municipalities of the Alpilles, collectors based in the region and a large number of private partners - companies - which, beyond their financial support, are implicated by forging privileged links with the artists invited, thus contributing to the development of cultural roots in this protected region of France. Abolishing the private/public split, the festival favourises the emergence of original projects, temporary or perennial, in harmony with exceptional locations, heritage or […]
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