Dialogues with Goya - Festival A-PART

program
The Disasters Of War
Dialogues with Goya
War On War
a-part Artists ﬂags special
Special edition, in link with the presentation of Goya’s engravings
ON JULY, 4Th, 2014 The Festival a-part,
completely free, starts its 5th edition in the
Alpilles. A hundred years after the start
of WWI, this edition will have two directions:
an artistic reflection over The Disasters Of War
by Goya and a creative assessment led by
the festival into contemporary art territory
during its first years.
FIRST EVENT: Thanks to the Festival a-part
and the Louis Jou Foundation, the City of
Les Baux-de-Provence will exhibit Goya’s
engravings The Disasters Of War, a true
treasure, never shown during the painter’s
life-time and hidden inside the city walls.
These works were made between 1810
and 1815 after the invasion of Spain by
Napoleon’s army in 1808. The war started
when Napoleon forced the king’s abdication
to the benefit of his brother, Joseph, and
ended in 1815 being called The War of
Independence.
The set of engravings is the property of
the Louis Jou Foundation. A foundation
inaugurated by André Malraux in 1976
in Les Baux-de-Provence, in memory of
Louis Jou, painter, engraver and compositor
who was a close and personal friend of the
greatest artists of the 20 th century.
SECOND EVENT: At Les Baux-de-Provence, with
the idea to be in constant dialogue with Goya,
contemporary artists present works of art in
resonance with the master’s works. The dates
do collide: two hundred years after Goya’s
etchings and one hundred years after WWI,
artists of our time interact with the famous
Spanish painter.
Each in his own way, is to be staging his own
answer or version of The Disasters Of War,
to the benefit of the Festival’s public.
This dialogue between the Goya from two
centuries ago and contemporary artists is
to be happening in many different ways such
as by a direct, almost physical relationship
with the engravings, or by indirect almost
metaphysic ways, from one disaster
to another.
ThIRD EVENT: As suggested by Philippe Cazal,
the Festival a-part, along with all its partners
all around the Alpilles, has asked all the
artists who were part of the four previous
editions to each create or present his own
version of a flag. Outdoor, indoor, hung,
suspended on masts, a photograph, a video,
or just a cry. Emblems of the Nations in
whose names millions of men and women
sacrificed their lives and souls.
In response, a-part‘s flags are to be flown as
marks of peace, acts of humor or love, raised
all around the Alpilles, vis-a-vis all past and
present war horrors.
BETWEEN JULY, 4Th AND AUGUST, 31ST 2014 These
three events are to merge into the complete
fifth edition of the Festival a-part.
A BOOk To commemorate the Festival
a-part’s fifth anniversary, a catalogue is to be
published. Its purpose is to alphabetically list
artists and partners who have taken part in
the festival from day one.
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