News from La Napoule:
Special Residency for Maine and New Hampshire artists
Starts October 1, 2009
“When I arrive in Maine, I start seeing again.”
William Kienbusch, American painter
“When I get back to Provence the world will be astonishingly visible.”
Ford Madox Ford, English novelist & poet
“BUT ABOVE ALL IT IS THE LIGHT.”
Henri Matisse, French painter
Northern New England and Provence: each is famous for its light and topography that have attracted some of the world’s greatest artists to its shores. With offices in Portsmouth, New Hampshire and a Chateau on the Riviera, La Napoule Art Foundation is in a unique position to link the two.
This fall, the Foundation has invited eight artists from Maine and New Hampshire to participate in a four-week residency at Chateau de La Napoule. All share a deep connection to their region, have a fundamental context in common, and yet create in very different styles. The Residency runs from October 1-29, 2009.
A distinguished jury, made up of the curators from three prestigious New England museums, selected the following:
From Maine:
From New Hampshire:
Following the October residency, work by the artists, highlighting what they created at La Napoule, will be the subject of an exhibition in either Portsmouth, NH or Portland, ME, and possibly in France.
“As an incubator of new ideas, residencies with the right artists can provide the opportunity to share space and time together that is available nowhere else. What happens over weeks of encounters is profoundly significant and can make a major contribution to the world.”
Gordon Knox, Director of Global Initiatives, Stanford School of Humanities & Sciences
