Les morts à l'œuvre

Vinciane Despret

published in January 2023
French edition
Éditions La Découvert - ISBN : 9782359252439

Opération – Nouveaux commanditaires

François Hers

The protocol and the action of the New Patrons: the radical transformation of the conditions of emergence and appropriation of the art as political act.

publication planned for 2023
French edition
Les presses du réel - ISBN : 978-2-37896-382-8

Du sec à l’eau – Étude pour Lamelouze

George Trakas

Study book made by artist George Trakas in response to a commission issued by inhabitants of the Lamelouze commune in the southern French region of Gard, north of Alès.

published in July 2017
French edition
Les presses du réel - ISBN : 978-2-9558778-0-7

Le grand troc / El gran trueque / A grande troca

Nicolas Floc’h

An artistic, political and collective project by Nicolas Floc'h, based on a principle of participation and co-realization, which points, at different levels, to the multiple relationships between social groups and public institutions that structure and frame them, while also questioning the symbolic or economic value of an artwork.

published in June 2018
bilingual French/English edition
Les presses du réel - ISBN : 978-2-37440-052-5

Les « Nouveaux commanditaires » : la création comme enjeu démocratique

Jean-Damien Collin

For the past twenty-five years, the "New Patrons" protocol has been reexamining the place of art in a given territory in the eyes of those who live and work there, and thus rests the challenges of creation in a democracy of initiatives.

Nectart # 6, 2018, vol. 1, pp. 108 à 115
French edition
DOI : 10.3917/nect.006.0108 / ISBN 9782916002491

Les Bogues du Blat

Patrick Bouchain / Construire

Publication documenting an innovative sustainable social housing project in a small village of south-central France.

published in May 2018
French edition
Les presses du réel - ISBN : 978-2-9558778-4-5

Reclaiming Art / Reshaping Democracy – The New Patrons & Participatory Art

Edited by Estelle Zhong Mengual and Xavier Douroux

Drawing on examples from France and the United States, this publication offers a multidisciplinary reflection on a new type of engagement of art in democracy, renewing relationships between creation, culture and society (adaptated from a French publication on the New Patrons's activities, updated with contributions from the Anglo-American intellectual scene).

Les presses du réel - ISBN : 978-2-84066-720-9
published in May 2017
English edition

À Distances – Œuvrer dans les espaces publics

Samuel Bianchini & Mari Linnman

Publication documenting an interactive installation by Samuel Bianchini commissioned by the Maison du geste et de l'image in Paris as part of the “New Patrons” program.

published in June 2017
French edition
Les presses du réel - ISBN : 978-2-84066-958-6

Letter to a Friend About the New Patrons

François Hers

"So, after countless ups and downs, I finally succeeded in proposing to reshape the relationships between our society, its artists and their work !
Twenty five years later, it appears that this rather utopic proposal has given birth to hundreds of artworks in a movement that is becoming increasingly widespread.
When I wonder why and how this artwork I conceived and colled The New Patrons Protocol has had such an impact, I believe it was undoubtedly the ineluctable consequence of a long, unprecedented history of cultural shifts, both contemporary and yet to come." F.H.

published in November 2016
English and French editions
Les presses du réel - ISBN: 978-2-84066-905-0

Faire art comme on fait société (+ 2 DVDs)

Les Nouveaux commanditaires

A multidisciplinary reflection on a new type of engagement of art in democracy, renewing relationships between creation, culture and society: 47 contributions by international thinkers and actors of the art world (with 9 movies on DVD).

published in September 2013
French edition

Red Star Football Club

Guillaume Bresson

Considering the relations between art and football through the example of an artwork commissioned by the Red Star Football Club as part of the “New Patrons” program, initiated and supported by the Fondation de France: a polyptych composed of eight oil paintings on wood panels, offering different viewpoints of the stadium and the life of the club.

published in June 2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel - ISBN : 978-2-84066-883-1

Ultimo Cielo

Battista Lena

Ultimo Cielo documents a musical project forming part of the New Patrons program: a piece for an amateur orchestra inspired by the works and practice of Italian Situationist painter Pinot Gallizio.

published in May 2016
bilingual edition (Italian / French)
Les presses du réel - ISBN : 978-2-84066-752-0

Le Monstre

Xavier Veilhan

Since the set up of Xavier Veilhan's The Monster in the center of Tours in 2004, the statue has been subject to various cultural appropriation by the locals. This book aims to document both the development of the project as part of the New Patrons program as well as the life of the statue within the city.

published in March 2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – ISBN: 979-10-95348-01-6

Le Jardin hospitalier

Jyll Bradley

Le Jardin hospitalier documents Jyll Bradley's eponymous site-specific artwork produced in April 2015 under the auspices of the Fondation de France's New Patrons program, at Hospital Roger Salengro in Lille, France. The artist has transformed a 100m long, window-less corridor into an immersive installation—a promenade—with black-lit photographs, literary texts and tactile sculptural elements.

published in December 2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel - ISBN : 978-2-84066-786-5

Trois commandes

Nicolas Floc’h

A review of three commissioned works executed by artist Nicolas Floc'h in isolated communities in Santiago, Chile, Rennes, and Tours, France, as part of the New Patrons program.

published in December 2015
French edition
Les presses du réel - ISBN : 979-10-95348-02-3

Rectangulaire

Claude Closky

A documentation on Claude Closky's artwork commissioned by the Paste association as part of the New Patrons program.

published in July 2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel - ISBN : 978-2-84066-797-1

Luciano Fabro, From Contratto Sociale to Colonna di Genk (book / DVD)

Thérèse Legierse & Kristof Reulens

Between 1990 and 2007, Italian artist Luciano Fabro (1936-2007) created sixteen publicly commissioned works. This book, along with an accompanying dvd, focuses on the life and works of this extraordinary artist, and brings homage to Fabro’s latest realization La Colonna di Genk. This intriguing work commissioned by the city of Genk (BE) visibly illustrates Fabro’s way of thinking and creation process.

bilingual edition (English / Dutch)
MER. Paper Kunsthalle - ISBN : 978-94-9069-362-6

Paysage industriel

Michel Aubry, Élisabeth Ballet, Susanne Bürner & Lani Maestro

A documentation on the singular projects by four contemporary artists developed as part of the Foundation of France “Nouveaux Commanditaires” (new patrons) action to question the industrial history of four regional nature park in France (Lorraine, Monts d'Ardèche, Pilat, and Vercors).

published in February 2015
French edition
Les presses du réel - ISBN : 978-2-84066-779-7

Projet Bel®encontre à Tourcoing

Emilio López-Menchero

Interview with Emilio López-Menchero around a commissioned work executed by the artist in Tourcoing, France, as part of the New Patrons program.

published in December 2013
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel - ISBN : 978-2-84066-689-9

Castille Residence

Fabien Rigobert

A New Patrons project in Amiens, France, 2010.

published in November 2013
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du Réel - ISBN : 978-2-84066-592-2

Art without Capitalism (The New Patrons)

François Hers & Xavier Douroux

A new model of action to invent new modes of art production and exchange by establishing a direct dialogue between the artist, the citizen-commissioner and the cultural mediator, outside the museum and apart from the art market.
Keeping capitalism out of the game while works and their contexts are reinvented: this book is about the possibility of a new chapter in the history of art, in which the “public” allows itself to become a patron of the arts, and people from all walks of life begin to speak the raison d'être of art works. Artists are faced with undreamed of situations in which the mediators of contemporary art play an avant-garde role. Responsibility for the common good is shared between citizens and their elected representatives, while a “gift economy” (public grants and private donations) provides the means to engage freely in a new adventure: the advent of an “art of democracy”.

published in April 2013
English edition
Les presses du réel - ISBN : 978-2-84066-591-5

Euville

Susanne Bürner

Artist's book about a three-section artwork requested by the Tourism Office and the Pays de Commercy Association of local authorities (Meuse) within the framework of the New Patrons program proposed by Fondation de France and the interpark cooperation project ‘Paysage Industriel’, which links the regional natural parks of Lorraine, Monts d'Ardèche, Pilat and Vercors.

published in February 2013
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel - ISBN : 978-2-9533912-4-4

L’art sans le capitalisme

François Hers & Xavier Douroux

The “society of New Commissioners”: a new model of action to invent new modes of art production and exchange by establishing a direct dialogue between the artist, the citizen-commissioner and the cultural mediator, outside the museum and apart from the art market.

published in January 2012
French edition - Also available in English
Les presses du réel - ISBN : 978-2-84066-506-9

Enquête sur le/notre dehors (Valence-le-Haut) < 2007 - ... > – à la date du 24 avril 2012

Alejandra Riera

Enquête sur le/notre dehors (Inquiry on the/our outside) constitutes “an image of collective thought concerning the place in which we live”, with the inhabitants in the outskirts of the city of Valence (in the suburb of Fontbarlettes), France: twelve exchanges, “footnotes” and thirty-nine composite image plates with captions.

published in February 2013
French edition
Les presses du réel - ISBN : 978-2-9533912-7-5

Vitraux

Christopher Wool

Christopher Wool's stained glass windows for the Prieuré of La Charité sur Loire, France.

published in November 2012
French edition
Les presses du réel - ISBN : 978-2-84066-577-9

L’œuvre commune – Affaire d’art et de citoyen

Jean-Paul Fourmentraux

Une approche sociologique des nouvelles pratiques en matière de commande publique pour penser les conditions d'un art authentiquement « démocratique ».
Ce livre ne s'intéresse pas aux œuvres déjà faites, mais à des « œuvres à faire ». Il a pour objet les métamorphoses du travail de création impulsées par un dispositif original de soutien et de médiation artistique : l'action Nouveaux Commanditaires conçue par l'artiste François Hers et mis en œuvre par la Fondation de France depuis 1991. « Faire œuvre » et « faire société » sont ici rendus indissociables. Car ni l'œuvre, ni le commun, affaires d'art et de citoyens, n'y sont « déjà là ». L'une et l'autre demandent à être instaurés. Or, cette instauration d'une « œuvre commune » est jalonnée d'une longue série d'associations, d'intrigues, de controverses et de négociations dynamiques entre artistes, médiateurs et citoyens commanditaires.
Au fil des différents chapitres, de nombreux artistes contemporains – John Armleder, Claude Lévêque, Tadashi Kawamata, Xavier Veilhan, Alain Bernardini, Christian Boltanski, Valérie Mréjen, Jean-Luc Moulène – nous font partager ces mouvements de négociation et de transformation de leurs œuvres, vers un « devenir public de l'art ».

paru en janvier 2012
édition française
Les presses du réel - ISBN : 978-2-84066-477-2

Les Musicollages (book / DVD)

Gilles Coudert

A film documenting a series of musical performances in the streets of Marseilles organized by Jacques Siron and commissioned by the Cité de la Musique.

published in February 2011
French edition
Les presses du réel - ISBN : 978-2-9528897-7-3

La maison forestière Wilfred Owen – Une œuvre de Simon Patterson

Simon Patterson

An exhaustive documentation on La Maison Forestière Wilfred Owen, a commissionned work by Simon Patterson inaugurated in 2011 as part of the New Patrons program.

published in 2011
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel - ISBN : 978-2-9536142-1-3

Monument d’images

Alain Bernardini

The story of an Alain Bernardini artwork commissioned by fourteen employees at the Paul-Brousse University Hospital (Villejuif, France).

published in 2009
French edition
Les presses du réel - ISBN : 978-2-9533912-1-3

Memory in Progress (book / DVD)

Tadashi Kawamata

Book / DVD documenting an artistic project by Kawamata: the rehabilitation of three ancient weavers' houses in Brittany.

published in 2007
bilingual edition (English / French) / English and French subtitles
Les presses du réel - ISBN : 978-2-95288-971-1

Nouveaux commanditaires en Bourgogne

Xavier Douroux

A retrospective of 10 years of creation resulting from the association of international contemporary artists and commissions for public works by a surprising variety of communities throughout Burgundy, France.

published in 2004
French edition
Les presses du réel - ISBN : 978-2-84066-137-5

Adelfo Scaranello

A first publication dedicated to the work of Adelfo Scaranello, architect from Besançon, France, whose singular constructions are presented in their context : a fishing cabin, a covered farmer’s market, both included among the "New Commissions" of the Fondation de France, plus a school, a barn, a residence, buildings employing natural sources of energy...

paru en 2004
textes en français et en anglais
Les presses du réel - ISBN: 978-2-84066-121-4

Le protocole

François Hers

Protocole proposes a contemporary structure of relations between society, artists and their works.

published in 2002
French edition
Les presses du réel - ISBN : 978-2-84066-075-0

Sarah Jones

The images (portraits) invented by Sarah Jones in the Burgundy wash houses.

published in 2001
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel - ISBN: 978-3-923357-14-7

Parcours d’ombres

Christian Boltanski

Shadows of witches, bats and black cats for a street public lighting commissioned work.

published in January 2010
French edition
Les presses du réel - ISBN: 978-2-84066-367-6

Une politique culturelle privée en France : les Nouveaux commanditaires de la Fondation de France (1991-2004)

Emmanuel Negrier, Dorothée Yaouanc, Laura Michel

In France, private patronage and public funding complement each other to support contemporary art. The Fondation de France, created in 1991, combines these two dimensions and participates in the purchase of numerous works. The book examines its action at three levels: a quantitative analysis; the study of seven concrete cases; the comparison of two regions (Burgundy and Belgian Flanders). In particular, it raises the question of territorial mediation in the promotion of an art form often considered to be reserved for the privileged.

published in Octobre 2006
French edition
Éditions L'Harmattan - ISBN : 2-296-01427-5