Heritage Days and Art Nouveau, a common goal: accessibility for all? 🧐
🇧🇪 This is precisely the theme of the Brussels Heritage Days: Art nouveau, an art for everyone? A weekend of heritage tours, free or reduced-price, to learn about the historical, technological and social context in which Art Nouveau emerged (spoiler: one of the major aims of artists at the time was to bring the "beautiful" into everyone's home 🤫)
The parallel with the Heritage Days aspiration is as amusing as it is interesting. Perhaps rather than talking about parallel ambitions, the metaphor of a virtuous circle is even more eloquent. Let's explain 👇
👆 At the end of the 19th century, the movement was in full swing for some twenty years
✌️ In 1984, Jacque Lang (former Minister of Culture) created the concept of Heritage Days in France to give the public access to buildings that are rarely open, or to museums that lower their prices
>> Heritage is everyone's business: everyone must feel they have a place and the right to participate. The aim is to create a sense of community, a collective around a shared heritage
🤟 Thirty years later, the concept has been exported across Europe, and more than 50 countries now organize their own Heritage Days
🖖 In 2023, the question of Art Nouveau as a medium for living together becomes the theme of these famous days in Belgium...
🔎 So, far from going round in circles, the issue of equal access to art and, more broadly, to culture, keeps coming up again and again, in new forms and through new initiatives! Perhaps this is the empirical proof that art does indeed have a decisive role to play in our societies: that of bringing us together, bringing us closer, encouraging us to discuss and exchange ideas...
And you, what do you think of these days?
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📆 16&17 September
🗞 Full programme: https://lnkd.in/eCmVNQVp
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