Coal Colour - Kolor Wega
Artistes : Anne de Beaufort, Brigitte Dykman, Joel Gaillard, Joel Gorlier, Gabriella Krewett, Brigitte Long, Michele Margary, Michel Mourier, JosettePaquet, Danielle Toledano, Volsy (F), Elena Ilina (D), Ladislav Steininger (CZ), Virgis (LT), Francesc Morera, Jordi Urbon (SP) , Jan Misiek, Andrej Koniezny (Pl)
2007 : Patrimony days « Couleur charbon - Coal color » :
International artistic symposium in the Vercors, artistic path in 9 historical places with 46 artists from 6 countries and 4 theater companies .
2009 : Patrimony Museum Villard de Lans-Isère with 12 artists from 5 countries: Germany, Spain, France, Poland, Lithuania, Czek Republic.
2011 : Poland« Couleur charbon - Coal color», is now " Kolor Wega "The beginning of a real 'tour" in Poland with 15 artists from 6 countries.
2011 : Debiut gallery. Gdynia – Poland2011 : Trojmasto gallery . Trutnowy- Poland
2012 : W Da Dwoek Artura gallery . Gdansk-Poland2012 : Galeria u Bibliotekarek de Rumia-Poland
2013 : Miejskiej Biblioteki Publicznej, Gdansk-Poland
Gdynia's art school invites artists of Chanteloube to organize workshops with students
Each new phase makes this project richer from mixing reflections and outlooks on the history of this area of the French Alps and the history of charcoal making.
The topic of this exhibition reveals elements of unknown history of our region in the Alps: the making of charcoal..Until the second World War and even later, coalburners settled half of the year in the forest in the mountains, with or without their families. They collected wood from the forest and burnt it using a specific technique. The wood was stacked in the shape of a hut around a central chimney, and then covered with soil. It was burnt very slowly over a number of days under close supervision to ensure it turned charcoal, which was used as a source of energy in the valleys.
This universal process, fusion of fire and wood, has always questioned artists in different ways, as did the way of life of coalburners who used to live apart from the society, like ermits..
It is a human story , but it is the story of a process too; the story of an energy.
