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Albert Ranieri
Albert Raniéri is an art historian.
E.S.B.A.N. teaching staff
General subjects
A trained academic, he initially worked on Tuscan Mannerism and Baroque
scenography.
After several study and research stays at the German Institute of History
of Art in Florence and a year in the United States, he focused his teaching
on applied arts and environment design.
He is also interested in the relations between art and architecture, in
questions concerning the idea of nature in art and exhibition practices.
Lecturer, he also gives courses at Université Paul Valéry in Montpellier
(Institut des étudiants étrangers) and he manages the organisation of
group trips at the school (in France and abroad).
Alain-Christophe Restrat
A poet and poetry critic born in 1946, he is the author of books of poems,
published in particular by Flammarion, and several artist’s books. Poetry
readings at Centre Georges Pompidou, the Musée d’Art Moderne in
Paris, the CIPM in Marseilles and abroad (USA, Arab countries).
In 1980, he met Henri Michaux who encouraged him to continue his
writing independently and outside movements. He taught French
literature and civilisation for a long time in the United States.
Corinne Rondeau
Academic and critic
‘ I write differently from the way I speak, I speak differently from the way
I think, I think differently from the way I should think …’ Kafka
Subject: Politics and exhibition news.
The issue of an exhibition is less that of the form or that of the content
than that of contextualisation. Under these circumstances, exhibitions
recover their literary definition.
Further, exhibitions stem more from the involvement of cultural organisation
(interaction between spectators, works, curators, critics, galleries
and museums). In other words, the question of contemporary art is that
of the exhibition as a way of showing more a policy of art than art, that
is to say an organisational issue. All the exhibitions addressed are linked
with history of art (forms, discourse and movements).