On Saturday, June 23rd, the opening of the 12th exhibition of EMAP – the Municipal School of Fine Arts – took place at the Palais de l’Europe in Menton. It was an opportunity for all the artists to showcase the results of a year of learning to the public.
Each year, the workshops of the School of Fine Arts in Menton invite interested members of the public to explore the activities conducted throughout the school year. This exhibition allows spectators to discover the educational work, the techniques taught, the materials used, and the artistic approaches studied during the year, and also provides an opportunity for students and their teachers to present their completed works.
In the presence of the Deputy Mayor of Menton, Jean-Claude Guibal, Christelle Esperto, Director of EMAP, presented the work of her students in a reconfigured salon designed to highlight each piece exhibited at the Palais de l’Europe individually yet harmoniously.
Disciplines such as drawing, painting, ceramics, sculpture, mosaics, engraving, raku, digital art, analog and digital photography, and art history were presented to the public under the watchful eyes of the School’s teachers: Christelle Esperto (painting, video digital art, and engraving), Patrick Truchi (drawing, art history, educational coordination), Teresa Spina (ceramics and raku), Andrée Meredieu (mosaic), Nicole Durand (sculpture), Joce Conversy (ceramics), Elisheva Copin (sculpture, modeling), Benjamin Adgnot (digital lab, digital art), and Manuel Soria (photography).
The theme of this year’s exhibition was nature and imagination, a skillful blend of bucolic and magical, where insects, flowers, and animals shared the spotlight with more abstract works featuring vivid colors, dreamlike forms, and artistic blurs.
For the Deputy Mayor of Menton, Jean-Claude Guibal, this annual event remains an incredible opportunity to awaken the residents of the commune to art, which is so dear to the heart of Francis Palméro, an emblematic figure of the city and former Mayor of Menton. For him, the municipality was an “artium civitas,” a “city of the arts,” which has always aimed to develop cultural and tourist activities within Menton without falling into the vicious cycle of consumerism.
