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SOUTIENT L’ART EN LUBERON...
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Lifestyle by Rosier
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TRADUCTIONS / TRANSLATIONS Myriam Harry
DESIGN GRAPHIQUE / GRAPHIC DESIGN Atelier Réan, Christelle Lecœuche-Réan
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English version of the Editorial P.03 PIERRE VASARELY
My childhood and adolescence were brighten up by the " Vasarely constellation" ...
DISCOVERED GORDES IN 1961, AT THE AGE OF 11 MONTHS OLD!. Up Iuntil 1991, I used to come every summer to spend beautiful vacations in Devens, the scrubland so dear to my grandparents. They discovered Gordes just after the war in 1948. In 1948 Victor Vasarely said: “I received
a masterful shock in this stunning South.”
My friends, at the time, were Jeannot Massolo, Joséphine, Anne-
Marie, Claude et Kiki Desailly, Arlette, Edmond et Chantal Avon, Pierre Viala, Odile Degand, Charles Nissar, Beppy Casarin et Robert, Michèle Borghino, Patricia Mathieu, Simone and Elie Fiedmann, the anonymous petanque balls players of the village ...
My like for Mathieu’s olive oil Provencal cooking from Oppède, for the goat cheese from Murs, for the red Rocalino from Beaumes de Venise, for the lamb from Sisteron and my love for napping undoubtedly come from that time.
Today, still, I thank Arlette for her culinary expertise!
1970! The launch of the didactique museum revives the castle and the village throughout the year.
With the pleasure of swimming, petanque balls games, chess games in the Borie with my grandfather where everything was allowed, daily shopping in a 2CV with my grandmother, the Tour de France on television in the afternoon (the French were winning then! And not just different stages...).
It is a “lifestyle“ deeply imprinted in me and for a long time, which I was lucky enough to experience throughout these summers in Gordes.
In Devens, it was open table and open house for all: politicians from all sorts, Hungarians from Paris, Hungarians from Hungary, artists, journalists, friends, family and gallery owners.
Regardless of such diversity of people, simplicity reigned daily in the Bories!
The two great restaurant owners in the village couldn’t be offended, an “official“ dinner at La Mayanelle, the next one at Le Renaissance!
14th of July ballrooms, village festivals in Gordes and in the villages around the Luberon punctuated and cheered up the evenings ...
A sweet nostalgic feeling gets hold of me at this very moment.
In those years, Claire and Victor Vasarely had blown a very special spirit for sharing into their environment and in the village.
With a limited flow of tourists despite easy access from the motorway, Gordes was already one of the most visited villages of the region for its environment, the proximity of the Senanque Abbey, the castle - Vasarely Museum which marked so many Vaucluse youngsters from the 70’s and 80’s with its kinetic collections. The TGV was not even in project yet, or just about!
I grew up in that atmosphere.
Years passed, tourist flows intensified but the magic remains.
The light, the village escarpment, the burning sun ...
Although my trips to Gordes have been shorter and further apart
over the last twenty years, Devens remain for me a haven of peace and contemplation, dry stones, the warmth and that brightness that struck my grandfather are still very much present today.
The castle is still as majestic. Since April 2015, its main hall is home to Vasarely Aubusson tapestries again.
2016 is a very special year for me.
I thank Jean-Christophe, whom I know the attachment to this village and the whole region, for giving me the opportunity to share with you these few memories.
This year, the 110th anniversary of Victor Vasarely birth (Pécs 1906 - Paris 1997) is celebrated by the MultipliCITE Vasarely exhibition, a triptych exhibition which, from June 2 to October 2, offers a journey through his work at Vouland Museum in Avignon, the castle of Gordes and the Vasarely Foundation in Aix-en-Provence, and recalls my grandfather’s commitment to Provence, and particularly to this village of the Vaucluse mountains.
Victor Vasarely’s spirit, and of his wife Claire, will blow again onto Gordes during this anniversary year. n
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