CLAUDE MOLLARD cultural international expert Who is Claude

CLAUDE MOLLARD cultural international expert

Who is Claude Mollard ? Claude Mollard, former judge at the Court of auditors, has executed responsabilities within the Ministry of Culture (construction of the Centre Pompidou, direction of the Union centrale des Arts décoratifs 1971 -1978), with Jack Lang (at the Delegation of the visual arts, 1981 -1986), and National Education (Mission for the artistic and cultural education, leadership (CNDP, 2001 -2004). He is also an entrepreneur with his creation of the concept of cultural engineering. Along with this experience, he developed teachings and méthodologies for cultural management in France and abroad. He has authored twenty five books on culture and art, including the Que sais-je ? About cultural engineering. •

Pompidou Centre in Paris. Built from 1970 à 1977. 5, 5 millions visitors a year. 70 000 m² surfaces. Investment cost 700 million € (value 2012) Mollard’s mission : Executive director of the Center : 1970 -1978

1976 : Before the opening of the Center to public, Claude Mollard authered the first book devoted to a great cultural project in France. It was the beginning of the other great projects : Louvre Pyramide, Arche of the Defense, Villette City, Institue of the arab World, Orsay Museum, etc.

The « Axe majeur » in Cergy-Pontoise city The major urban sculpture in the world : 3 km long. Investment : 40 million €. Designed by Dani Karavan, sculptor.

View from the top of the Tour du Belvédère (36 meters high, and landscape up to Paris) Beginning in 1982

The « 12 columns » of the Impressionnistes hill viewed from the red bridge on the Oise river.

Axe majeur : The twelve columns Sponsored by 24 companies of the city, With the help of Mollard ‘s agency.

The « Tower of the Belvédère » built in the Pise tower style

On the whole : the « Axe majeur » is a free and central space, open to people in the very center of the new city of Cergy-Pontoise, 40 kilometers from Paris, built on decison of général de Gaulle in 1964. Claude Mollard initiated the project in 1982, financed it at several times, with the help of public money or fundrising systems. Definitively finished in 2010. A book written by him celebrates the « saga » of the longuest sculpture in the world.

The columns of the King Palace in Paris Decision by president Mitterrand : 1985 Mollard’s realisation : 1986

Investment cost : 2 M€ Artist : Daniel Buren Architect : Patrick Bouchain This monumental piece of art is open to public. It takes place among buildings from the 16 th to the 18 th century, where are the Ministry of culture, the Comédie française, the Conseil d’Etat, the Conseil constitutionnel.

Cathédrale d’Evry, ville d’Evry (40 km au sud de Paris) 1989 -1996 Mollard’s missions : . assistance to the bishop to define the concept of that new cathedral, the first built since French Revolution. . Choice of the architect : Mario Botta. . Campaign of spomsorship for a total funds found : 20 M€. Inauguration by pope Jean Paul II (1996)

A cathedral with a crown of trees on the top.

The inside of the cathedral with red bricks

« Basilique de Conques » (Sud-Ouest of France) 1995 Mollard’s mission : Launching and control of an huge order to the french artist, Pierre Soulages, for the realization of 100 special glass windows.

The artiste used a special white glass which takes different colours all day long according to the outside light

Sculpture from Arman in front of Saint Lazare station, Paris. 1986 Mollard’s mission : . Order to Arman. . Control of the realization in bronze, 10 meters high. . Implantation in one of the most crowed point in Paris. . Financing.

The « Tour au figures » , 1988 Artist Jean Dubuffet, Issy-les-Moulineaux city (Next to Paris) Mollard’s mission : implantation, finance and realization. 24 meters high. 15 millions francs.

City hall « The Arsenal » , Metz city, 1992 Mollard’s mission : programmation of the Ricardo Bofill’s project

Inside of the Arsenal city-hall : wooden walls with two opposite sides for spectators

Memory Center of Oradour sur Glane, near Limoges. 1999. Mollard’s mission : Conception and programmation of the project for a village destroyed by German army in 1944.

Centre Abbé Pierre-Emmaüs. Esteville (near Rouen) 2011 Mollard’s mission : programmation, organization, financing and control of the project. Architect : Nicolas Normier

Main Mollard’s references 1970 : Pompidou center, executive director. 1978 : Museum of decorative arts, Paris, general director. 1981 : Ministry of culture, director of visual arts, president of the Photography Center, Founder of the National school of design, Founder of the National school of photography in Arles city. 1982 -86 : launching of big sculptures in France (Buren, Dubuffet, Arman, César, … about 100 sculptures in public spaces. 1986 : president of ABCD, first agency of cultural engineering. 1988 : National theatre in Barcelona, Spain. 1988 -1990 : exhibitions in Japan, such as « Nabis » , « the portrait » , « the Eiffel tower » . 1988 : « Festival of gatronomy » in Roanne city. 1989 : « Festival Etend’art » in Vienne city. 1989 : « Paris-Tuileries » , bicentenaire of the French Revolution (Nicolas Normier architect, 1 million visitors) 1989 : « Utopies 89 » , european exhibition in the Grand Palais, Paris. 1990 : beginning of conception of the « Memory center » in Oradour. 1992 : public library in Limoges city.

1992 : « Tchecoslovac artists » , exhibition in Paris. 1992 : cultural audit of Quimper city , programmation of theater and contemporary art center. 1992 : exhibition in the french pavillon in Sevilla, Universal Exhibition. 1993 : Cultural audit of Corse Island. 1994 : Programmation of the Gallo-romain Museum in Périgueux city. 1995 : audit of public frequentation in the Louvre Museum, Paris. 1995 : artistic policy in the Defense, district in Paris. 1995 : Calder exhibition in the Defense and in Bonn Kunsthalle. 1996 : Archeologic garden in Carthage city (Tunisia) 1997 : cultural ans social policy in brazilain favellas (for the european Union) 2000 : adviser of the ministry of Education for the arts and culture. 2002 : head of CNDP, producer of films, books ans internet sites for Education ministery. 2004 : ARENE : festival on ecologic problems. 2007 : IMEC project of international museum of typography. 2009 : first studies for the « Earth Tree » in Burgundy, France. 2011 : « Centre abbé Pierre-Emmaüs » , Esteville, near Rouen city. 2013 : « Historial Jeanne d’Arc » in Rouen City…