Valéry Grancher

Valéry Grancher, “The Shiwiars Project” author won the artistic project call organized by Art aux Poles and IPEV (the french polar institute Paul Emile Victor). It was announced over Internet and on the palais de tokyo website: This french international Art Center brought together the people herafter to constitute a jury: Caroline Bourgeois (Le plateau), Marc Sanchez (Palais de tokyo), Françsoise Vincent and Elohim Feria (Art aux Poles), Alain Lesquer (French Polar Institute Paul Emile Victor).
This year, during the summer in the fourth polar year context Valery Grancher will stay at the german french scientist base called Cordel. This French man is one of the first to carry out an artistic project to Ny Alesund in Svalbard! 125 years after the first international polar Year and 50 years after the international geophysical Year, international scientific community organizes the fourth international polar Year of March 2007 at Mars 2008. There is no doubt that this year will focus good number of media fires on the scientific, climatic, strategic, energy, policies related to these territories and why not artistic? Thus its project will name “Ny Alesund Pôle 0”!
You will be able to follow the advance of this project on his new blog, there