On March 17, 2020, France went into lockdown because of the COVID-19 health crisis.
IESA arts&culture therefore closed its doors while continuing its activity remotely. Our students were able to follow their programs. Faced with this unprecedented situation, Boris Grebille, our director, wished to launch the series "IESA’s Favorites, a Heritage for All" on social media. His wish was to share with as many people as possible the artistic favorites of the friends of IESA: teachers, staff, friends, students.
The first three favorites were proposed by Thomas Gauvillé, professionalization officer and art history professor, with "The Basket of Peaches" by Jean-Siméon Chardin, followed by Philippe Di Folco, screenwriter, instructor on audiovisual professions, with "Rear Window" by Alfred Hitchcock, and Grécia Cacerès, writer and director of the Latin America Department, who teaches Latin American arts at IESA and commented on "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel García Márquez.
Other favorites followed. Almost every artistic discipline, in contemporary as well as old master and classical art, was showcased: film, video art, music, painting, sculpture, and more. A great opportunity to discover or rediscover masterpieces during a rather special period when people rarely went out. IESA’s favorites were the cultural parenthesis of the lockdown.
Find the entire series, which continues on our YouTube channel.
