Arles, its arenas, its Alyscamps... and since 2021, also its LUMA Tower, which has transformed the city's skyline. This «interdisciplinary creative campus» is the brainchild of the LUMA Foundation, created in 2004 by Swiss businesswoman, producer and patron Maja Hoffmann.
Blue skies and sunshine, in principle everyone agrees, are beautiful. Mist and fog, those floating, damp, indistinct zones, are generally not appreciated over time. Yet to catch a glimpse of this fragile, shifting boundary between one and the other is a privileged moment.
Like Lucky Luke, are the trees of the American West waiting for the sun to set before singing «I'm a poor lonesome tree»? Or even «I'm already a dead tree»? A mystery. Images taken in Zion National Park and Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park.
«La solitude, ça n'existe pas», sang Gilbert Bécaud ironically a few millennia ago, and each of his intonations underlined just how much it exists. It's true for humans, animals and even trees. Photos taken in France.
The chasm dug in Neuchâtel by the Seyon, whose current was harnessed as early as the 16th century to provide power for a mill, has been converted into a «Centre d'interprétation des techniques des roues à eau». The Gor du Vauseyon is also an attractive dream machine.
There's a natural part to it. And a human part. The natural part is the incredible colors and relief of the area. The human element is the evidence of quarries dug into the cliff faces as early as the end of the 18th century.
Soon to be historic images... Sixty years after its closure in 1965, the asbestos factory in Canari, Corsica, will be destroyed and its quarries «made safe» from this year onwards. After a vein was discovered in 1898, a Swiss working for the ETERNIT company spotted a real deposit in the 1920s. By 1940, millions of tons of rock had been extracted from the site by ETERNIT subsidiary SMA (Société minière de l'amiante), disfiguring the region. Once the asbestos had been isolated, the crushed rock filled the bays and coves of western Cap Corse, transforming them into black beaches, such as the famous Nonza beach.
Theodor Wildt shares textual and pictorial fragments of his work with Regard Libre readers. Episode 10
One of the members of our editorial team recently received a definitive rejection from an art school. His work was deemed insufficiently imbued with a certain type of «critical» discourse. His testimony serves as a warning.
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