IESA arts&culture has forged a genuine educational partnership with the Art Elysées contemporary art and design fair, which celebrated its 10th anniversary this year.
A dozen students were thus able to work on organizing the fair but also on the cultural mediation for audiences.
The fair also hosted the Juvenars-IESA Prize by exhibiting the works of its winner Loup Lejeune.
Organization, relations with galleries and the press, VIP reception, and cultural mediation for the Raymond Hains exhibition organized within the fair by Galerie W: the students of IESA arts&culture were kept busy at the Art Elysées Art & Design fair.
In a friendly and professional atmosphere, they took full part in all the activities that make a contemporary art fair a success, putting to use the various courses they take in their programs in art market, cultural production, mediation of cultural projects, and communication and marketing for culture.
The fair’s director, Isabelle Keit-Parinaud, a member of the jury of the Juvenars-IESA Prize, which each year rewards a young artist under 30 not represented by a gallery, also offered IESA arts&culture a booth to exhibit the 2016 winner, Loup Lejeune.
A wonderful experience and a great success for the artist, several of whose works were purchased. For the students who staffed the booth with the Métacritik Opéra team, an association of alumni specializing in organizing art events, it was also a great moment full of encounters, where they were able to defend and promote an artistic body of work before collectors and professionals.