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Réseau DELAPEINTURE (The DELAPEINTURE network)

This research, centered on the contemporary issues and practices of painting, carried out by the Grenoble-Valence ESAD, was put together in 2010 with a 16 member research team; today, a dozen research and teaching organizations (1) in France and abroad continue to contribute to the development of this project, around the three initial issues:
– Painting: an object for considering the world. How does painting participate in the production of new codes, new specific models that take their place in our relationship with the contemporary world? In the tumult of pictorial practices and the connection with other art practices, what are the forms, processes and materials that painters use in the their current practice?
– Spaces and contexts of painting today. This second issue concerns the articulation between forms and context, and the strategies of painters in spaces of presentation and exhibition. It also questions the capacity of painting to continue the debate around the place of the spectator, starting from its inherent conditions.
– Local, global – the territories of painting. This issue questions the territory of painting on at least two levels; on a global level that is expressed in the constant flow of exchange, images and cultures; and on a local level which can be seen as much in the training provided by schools as in artistic circles. What is the role of artists, of their grouping in local scenes in a globalized context?

The Grenoble -Valence ÉSAD regularly publishes artists’ books, catalogues, CD Roms…

The Valence ÉSAD organizes workshops with guest artists, critics, writers and designers in addition to study trips in France and abroad. It regularly programmes seminars, lectures and presentations of work of all types (exhibitions, performances, concerts, projections,…) and actively collaborates with the cultural structures of the Grenoble conglomeration and its region in the organization of events. These events, whose initial purpose is one of pedagogy, are opportunities to further anchor the school in the professional network of contemporary art and to open it out to the population of the City of Valence and the region.
The Grenoble -Valence ÉSAD is part of the network formed by the four higher schools of art in the Rhone-Alpes region. In this capacity it favors inter-school pedagogical projects and the professional insertion of its graduates.

Classes for children, adolescents and adults: an introduction to visual arts, drawing, life model, painting, volume, sculpture, engraving, infography, multimedia.

In the framework of the organization of studies, the eighth semester is dedicated to international mobility. Each student is invited to travel abroad and face the demands of the world through either a study trip, or an internship in a professional structure.
The Grenoble ÉSAD participates in the ERASMUS programme. Numerous partnerships with international higher educational establishments have been set up. Financial support is provided to students through different grants and scholarships: Erasmus, Explora’sup from the Rhone-Alpes region and OFAJ -the Franco-German youth office.
Certain of the Grenoble -Valence ÉSAD partner establishments: University of the arts, Central St Martin, London; Kingston University—Kingston upon Thames; LUCA—School of Arts, Gand ; ERG/School of Graphic Research, Brussels ; The National Higher School of Visual Arts of la Cambre , Brussels ; Muthesius Kunsthochschule, Kiel ; Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design ; Weissensee Berlin ; HEAD – Higher School of Art and Design, Geneva; National University of Arts, Bucharest ; Facultad de Bellas Artes de Valencia (Polytechnic University) ; Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology, Bangalore ; Concordia University, Montreal ; PUC Campinas, Brazil.

The Valence ESAD has an exhibition space and a vast modular space that can host exhibitions or artistic events having a direct link with the pedagogy operating in the school.

The Valence ÉSAD has a range of adapted technical workshops: it possesses a complete set up when it comes to traditional techniques (drawing, painting, film photography, offset printing, plaster, earth, wood, metal), and also more recent techniques (digital technology applied to photography, video, sound, multimedia, CAD).
The Valence ÉSAD also has an amphitheater equipped for lectures and projections and a specialized library.

ANdEA, ADÉRA, ELIA, ART ACCORD FRANCE.

Jacques Norigeon Directeur
Benoît Poche Secrétaire général
Inge Linder-Gaillard Responsable des études et de la recherche
Christine Priotto Relations internationales
Roseline Tauleigne Assistante de communication
Géraldine Letovanec Bibliothèque
Florence Prévost-Damiani Secrétariat pédagogique
Marie Angulo Secrétariat / accueil

Place des Beaux-Arts
CS 40074
26903 | Valence cedex 9
tél. +33 (0)4 75 79 24 00
fax +33 (0)4 75 79 24 40
valence@esad-gv.fr
www.esad-gv.fr

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