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Documents d’artistes PACA A website dedicated to contemporary art Since 1999, the association Documents d’artistes has been documenting and disseminating the activities of a selection of visual artists in the South of France. Using the online publication of artists’ dossiers, it visually describes what is currently going on in an art scene mainly operating in Marseille, Arles, Toulon and Nice. |
Team Guillaume Mansart, director; Place Documents d’artists has premises in Marseille, |
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Documentsdartises.org shows the work of more than 230 contemporary artists by way of some 15,000 pages, 50,000 pictures, more than 1,200 videos, writings, and bibliographies… The online documentary collection currently encompasses a selection of artists representing a variety of backgrounds and practices in the contemporary art arena (installation, photography, painting, sculpture, drawing, video, sound and multimedia), and residing in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur Region. The typical artist’s dossier offers many reproductions of works, a CV, a bibliography, and writings. Each year, a committee made up of art professionals (critics, exhibition curators, art centre directors, institutional representatives…) introduces new artists to be included in the online documentary collection. The online dossiers are then edited in collaboration with the artists selected, and regularly updated to follow the way their work is developing. |
Through this documentation, Documents d’artistes PACA works hand-in-hand with the dissemination of artists’ work among professional publics and art lovers. The association is a link between creation, professional circles, and different kinds of public, aiming at encouraging people involved with art to promote a better circulation of artists’ work, at both local and international levels.  |
| Alongside the task of online documentation, the association is developing programmes aimed at taking part in the dissemination of the work of artists in its collection. Meet-ups enable guest exhibition curators, French and foreign alike, to discover artists’ works. These three-day sessions take place in Marseille and Nice, the two major art hubs in the region, and are organized around studio visits which thus fill out the task of documentation. The object of this programme also includes reporting on a territorial dynamic, so these visits always offer an opportunity to meet directors of organizations, visit shows and institutions, and the like… The website's structure is in french but most of the artists statements are translated into english. The program aimed at professionals provides an interesting extension to the online work. For this professional program the travel expenses (transportation, hotel and meals) are covered. Link to the meet-up page The artists’ dossiers are the object of a regular communication programme dealing with major contemporary art events: Nuits des musées, the Lyon Biennale, Contemporary Art Spring- Marseille, Art-o-rama. See the exhibition Draw me your song! in Marseille See the presentation at Art-o-rama, Marseille The association also initiates projects involving an artistic operator in France or abroad, in order to lend visibility other than that provided by the Internet. Exhibitions, showrooms, lectures… thus enable different kinds of public, professional and amateur alike, to discover the artists’ work. Publications (bilingual web review, documentary film…) are regularly produced, casting an eye on contemporary art praxes. Link on additional document |
For the past five years, Documents d’artistes has taken part in workshops for art school students and young artists gravitating around the documentation of artistic work as part of professionalization meetings. Last of all, Documents d’artistes is a project which has ramifications on a national and international scale through the Documents d’artistes network which brings together organizations established in four French Regions (Brittany in Brest / Rhône-Alpes Auvergne in Lyon / Aquitaine in Bordeaux, whose shared brief consists in presenting today’s art landscapes through the online publication of artists’ dossiers. Link to bilingual French/English site The association is keen to develop professional cooperative projects with dissemination and documentation organizations in Europe. In partnership with an organization abroad, Documents d’artistes is setting up the conditions for an exchange and reception programme in La Friche Belle de Mai, in Marseille, in order to: - establish links between artistic communities - be part of a network of professionals connected with visual arts documentation - have exchanges about work practices. See the exhibition One More Reality in Milan with Careof See the presentation at the Galerie Optica, Montreal, with Artexte Contact : Guillaume Mansart/Marceline Matheron info@documentsdartistes.org |
| The artists’ dossiers presented on the website are only partly translated. In order to provide certain reading elements, we are here proposing a set of notices concerning artists who are included in the documentary collection, on a year by year basis. These notices introduce issues to do with the artists’ work. Link to the notices |
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