The Bettencourt Schueller Foundation and the Palais de Tokyo have been working together for nearly four years. The two organizations are now moving closer together, signing the third project of their partnership, namely TOGUNA. This will be a co-creation that will bring together several artists and craftspeople. Following the exhibition "The Use of Forms" in 4 and "Double Je" in 2015, the foundation is continuing its efforts to strengthen its focus on artistic crafts.
A collaboration to promote new technologies and contemporary art
This new partnership will bring to fruition TOGUNA, through which we can discover artistic craftsmanship from a new perspective. This name was specifically chosen to echo an open structure located in the center of the Dogon villages on the edge of the Bandagiara cliff. The place brings the community together to transmit the words of the wise. This project will be entirely based on new technologies and innovative ideas. Both houses are keen for the general public to better understand this technique through TOGUNA, which is intended to host the "Watchers' Workshop." A transmission format will therefore be planned from January 11, 2018, so that everyone can assimilate these contemporary art processes.
This initiative will be launched a second time next year at TOGUNA, a venue carefully designed by artisans and artists. The first launch, hosted by Bernard Marcadé, took place last February and highlighted the challenges of creativity, both past and present.
Crafts highlighted through this third artistic collaboration
With the aim of facilitating encounters between craftspeople, designers, and contemporary artists, and also to encourage artistic exchanges, the Bettencourt Schueller Foundation and the President of the Palais de Tokyo have organized various exhibitions focusing on crafts and contemporary art.
The story began in 2015 with the exhibition "The Uses of Forms." Numerous artisans worked with designer Robert Stadler to highlight human know-how and the connections between humans and their tools to shape the world.
The collaboration continued in 2016 and the public had the opportunity to be transported into a detective novel with the investigation symbolized by the creations of craftspeople and artists during the Double Je exhibition.
And this penchant for artistic craftsmanship has been further reinforced by this third collaboration between the Bettencourt Schueller Foundation and the Palais de Tokyo with TOGUNA. The foundation aims to create a community by focusing on exchange and partnership, thereby showcasing artistic crafts while ensuring that contemporary art is also showcased.
TOGUNA's planned openings
As already stated, the goal of these exhibitions and partnerships is none other than to facilitate contact with artisans while discovering art in all its aspects. On Saturday, January 13, the premises will be open to all from noon until 21 p.m. because it will be a TOGUNA discovery day for the general public. Everyone will therefore have the opportunity to explore the place thanks to mediators. But it will also be possible to exchange and communicate with artisans, artists and art historians during this day.
And to allow all visitors to the Palais de Tokyo to discover TOGUNA, free tours will be organized once a week, starting February 16, 2018.
Quentin
