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Welcome
to the
Académie
Desprez's
Website
Last update:
23/10/2011 |
Since
its foundation in 1999, the
mission of Académie
Desprez consists of contributing to the range of
influence of Drottningholms Slottsteater and its collections. By
taking the theatre life and practice at
Drottningholms Slottsteater as an intellectual
programme, Académie
Desprez
aims at developing an innovative approach to the stage arts by
leading works in research and practice.
Further
reading upon the Académie Desprez
Drottningholms
Slottsteater is a rare place and unique of its kind
in the world. This masterwork of Swedish architecture has
remained intact since the XVIIIth century. Registered by the UNESCO's World Heritage
Committee, the Theatre, the Palace and the surrounding area
were recognized as being of international cultural heritage
significance. Drottningholms
Slottsteater provides direct access to ancient arts and
skills that, otherwise, could only be read about.
This experience is the start of
Académie
Desprez’s
perception of the Age of Enlightenment. Further
reading upon Drottningholms
Slottsteater and Sveriges Teatermuseum
Académie
Desprez called itself by adopting Louis-Jean Desprez's name, a
French XVIIIth century architect and painter, summoned in Stockholm by the king Gustave
III.
Beside numerous architectural realisations in Sweden, he
designed Drottningholms Slottsteater's foyer as well as many
theatre sets and costumes. By taking Desprez's career and
comprehensive works as a reference, Académie
Desprez defines itself as a meeting and exchange media for artists and
amateurs, historians and practitioners.
Further
reading upon Louis-Jean
Desprez
Académie
Desprez's working programmes are focused on
æsthetics of the
Age of Enlightenment. Research programmes are inspired
by Drottningholm, Gustave III and Desprez.
Grants are attributed to establish new
relationships between theory and practice. Next to the
activity of research, experimentation develops an
understanding of creative processes. The knowledge of
arts in the XVIIIth century becomes comprehensive
through the concrete experience of reconstruction.
Further
reading upon Académie
Desprez's works
Artists and craftsmen working at
Drottningholms Slottsteater rediscover their
predecessors’ daily gestures; members of the
Académie
Desprez
–scholars, artists and patrons– contribute to put into
question, with their work, and to give life, with their
practice, to this precious heritage.
Further
reading upon
the applications (Practice)
Gilbert Blin,
Fondateur de l'Académie Desprez
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