.Presentation of the school - Nîmes

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E.S.B.A.N.
Teaching and programmes
Space - sculpture - volume
Arnaud vasseux
Sculptor. Lives in Marseilles. Born in Lyons in 1969.
Teaches 1st to 5th year classes.
The studio wishes to encourage students to experience volume
and to test the numerous possibilities of three-dimensional work.
Stress is laid here on experimenting with the materials chosen
and observation in research.
Sculpture is seen as a practice open to the other disciplines and
transverse studios are proposed for each semester.
The students are helped to perform individual work, in the
concrete expression of their thinking and in the design of their
research.
They come up again choices in the diversity of the things available
and in tools (even reduced to a minimum) that sculpture implies.
They are led to considering the problems raised by executing
their works at the scale of the context in which they wish to
operate.
Space - sculpture - volume
Dror Endeweld
An artist born in Tel Aviv Yaffo in 1960. Has lived in France since
1982. After studies at the Beaux-Arts in Lyons, he participated in
the second session of the Institut des Hautes Études en Arts Plastiques.
Hinges his work on language and its physical perception.
Addresses the practice of volume/space and installation. His teaching
runs from the Russian avant-garde through the main movements
of the 1960s—minimal art, conceptual art, arte povera—
and the repercussion of these works on today’s world.
Space - body
Performance, sound environments, low-tech.
Jean-Claude Gagnieux
Artist and performer. He makes installations and sound editions.
Born in Algeria in 1957. Works in the universe of humour and derision.
Teaches 1st to 5th year classes.
A course on the history of performance—iconography, video library,
sound archive, research workshops, radio programmes,
events.
Transverse links with other contemporary disciplines (dance, theatre,
writing, music, circus, etc.) and with traditional disciplines.
Promotion of awareness of work with sound, voice, the body and
‘displaying’ it to make this work on visibility enable the claiming of
explicit practices as a crucial stage in preparation for the diplomas.