L'hitoire de la TGAD

The international art market taking place in the regional park at Pougues-Les-Eaux is a small step for the VGDA but a big jump in the unknown in the far end of the french province.

Here the VGDA, outside its usual grounds, converts your space baring in mind the care for the amelioration of your everyday environment. So, for the period of a summer, the greenhouse with a garden and an exhibition room is becoming a laboratory and a place where thoughts can develop on the thema as well as on the premises of the departmental park of Pougues-Les-Eaux.

In collaboration with the "e" floor (anarchy), this VGDA project consists in
cleaning entirely the greenhouse creating a garden with wild ferns, and a floating garden with flowers. It includes covering the greenhouse with a kind of transparent skin made of flexible PVC material and organising an exhibition inside about the park history presenting the various projects of development it has been the object of and finally in making utopic propositions.

This initiative gives information about the park inventory of fixtures as it is now and offers its thoughts on subjects such as heritage, its preservation, its alteration, its deficiencies, its powers, its plants and botanical secrets, its shape, its museum status or its living heritage status and the desirable investments.

Yes, the VGDA wants to engage a dialogue about your park and via a cleaning operation and the valorization of the Park Saint Léger's old greenhouse, it will make this abandonned and anarchic place a major site in the local democracy.

"Long live wild democracy"
Realization : The Very Great Democratic Administration
Directed by : The team of the "e" floor (anarchy)
Production : Contemporary Art Centre of the Saint Léger park in Pougues-Les-Eaux
Costs (in french francs) : 15,000.00
Finances : State, The region of Burgundy, regional council.
Management : Catherine Arthus Bertrand
Artistic management : Niek van de Steeg
Assisted by : Jérome, Adel, Frédéric, Sam.
Realization of the greenhouse's cover : Tineke van Aalzum
Clerk : Nicolas

This was written on an entrance door of a footpath fence put up around a ruined greenhouse dated of the beginning of the century.The wooden wall is representing the cross cut of the VGDA's floors (connection with page 3 TGAD in the text and the sketches)


Here the VGDA, outside its usual grounds, converts your space baring in mind the care for the amelioration of your everyday environment. So, for the period of a summer, the greenhouse with a garden and an exhibition room is becoming a laboratory and a place where thoughts can develop on the thema as well as on the premises of the departmental park of Pougues-Les-Eaux. In collaboration with the "e" floor (anarchy), this VGDA project consists in cleaning entirely the greenhouse creating a garden with wild ferns, and a floating garden with flowers. It includes covering the greenhouse with a kind of transparent skin made of flexible PVC material and organising an exhibition inside about the park history presenting the various projects of development it has been the object of and finally in making utopic propositions. This initiative gives information about the park inventory of fixtures as it is now and offers its thoughts on subjects such as heritage, its preservation, its alteration, its deficiencies, its powers, its plants and botanical secrets, its shape, its museum status or its living heritage status and the desirable investments. Yes, the VGDA wants to engage a dialogue about your park and via a cleaning operation and the valorization of the Park Saint Léger's old greenhouse, it will make this abandonned and anarchic place a major site in the local democracy.
"Long live wild democracy" Realization : The Very Great Democratic Administration Directed by : The team of the "e" floor (anarchy) Production : Contemporary Art Centre of the Saint Léger park in Pougues-Les-Eaux Costs (in french francs) : 15,000.00 Finances : State, The region of Burgundy, regional council. Management : Catherine Arthus Bertrand Artistic management : Niek van de Steeg Assisted by : Jérome, Adel, Frédéric, Sam. Realization of the greenhouse's cover : Tineke van Aalzum Clerk : Nicolas This was written on an entrance door of a footpath fence put up around a ruined greenhouse dated of the beginning of the century.The wooden wall is representing the cross cut of the VGDA's floors (connection with page 3 TGAD in the text and the sketches)