editorial
Claude Lévêque at La Verrière,
H Box at the Fondation Beyeler,
Babel, the new work by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Damien Jalet currently beginning its European tour…
The Fondation d’entreprise Hermès enters its second year with the launch of a new season focusing on the contemporary creative arts in all their diversity, from visual art and design to photography, video and dance… Art has its own intrinsic value. But it can channel educational and social initiatives, too. Like Gol de Letra and Convoi exceptionnel, two organisations supported by the Foundation since 2009. Transforme is another partner organisation, training young choreographers. The Foundation also supports a range of initiatives aimed at encouraging underprivileged children into school and education. In this context, the Foundation recognises the importance of the ongoing dialogue between the contemporary arts and traditional craft skills – a dialogue highlighted in two exhibitions staged with our support: Autres maîtres de l’Inde ("Other Masters of India") and Animal. The INDP is dedicated to training and environmental issues as part of a virtuous cycle promoting social development and the preservation and transmission of local cultures. I invite you to find out more about these and all our projects, Catherine Tsékénis
Director, Fondation d’entreprise Hermès
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exhibition
Claude Lévêque at La Verrière
Ideal Circus
Claude Lévêque's controversial work Le Grand Soir was created for the French pavilion at the 53rd Venice Biennale in 2009. His latest installation, Ideal Circus at La Verrière, sets out once again to challenge contemporary society, through the medium of the circus.
sociability
Gol de Letra
Education through sport and culture in Brazil
Founded in 1998 by two former professional football players, Raï and Leonardo, the Gol de Letra Foundation offers alternative educational programmes for children from the favelas of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo.
dance
Training new talent: Transforme
Young choreographers at the Abbaye de Royaumont
"Transforme" is a platform for exchange between dance, music, and new technologies, at the Fondation Royaumont's Centre de Recherche et de Composition Chorégraphiques (CRCC). Dancer and choreographer Myriam Gourfink is its driving force.
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exhibition
India's unsung masters
Adivasi art at the Musée du Quai Branly
Paris's Musée du Quai Branly presents an exhibition of art and craftwork by India's adivasi peoples.
dance
Babel
A choreographic work by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Damien Jalet
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui & Damien Jalet join forces with British visual artist Antony Gormley to create Babel (words), a dance performance that explores language and its relationship with nationhood, identity and religion.
design
Animal
A themed exhibition at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, in Paris
Worshipped, feared or misunderstood, animals embody every nuance of good and evil. An exhibition at the Arts Décoratifs (Galerie d'Études) explores this rich source of inspiration for artisans throughout history.
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video
H BOX
Video art in a nomadic architectural unit
The H BOX project commissions new video works for a specially-designed "nomadic" viewing unit. H BOX is hosted by museums and art events around the world.
biodiversity
The INDP
A medicinal garden in Tamil Nadu
The INDP (Intercultural Network for Development and Peace) works to transform waste ground in India into flourishing medicinal gardens.
photography
Richard Renaldi at the Gallery at Hermès
Touching Strangers
American photographer Richard Renaldi's experimental approach plays on the contrast between the apparent banality of specific situations, and their inner, inexpressible strangeness. The Touching Strangers series provokes unaccustomed close contact between perfect strangers.
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