This exhibition of paintings is the École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux's response to an invitation from the Frac Nouvelle-Aquitaine MÉCA (Fonds Régional d'Art Contemporain).
It brings together very recent student productions coordinated by Corentin Canesson and Nicolas Milhé, teaching artists at the school, and Iloé Lafond, in charge of school and higher education projects at the Frac MÉCA, with a selection of paintings from the collection.

Of course, painting is fashionable, and this project is connected to other recent exhibitions testifying to the vitality of contemporary painting: from ‘Jours des peintres’ at the Musée d'Orsay, to the ‘Salon International de la peinture de Delme’, currently at the art centre La Synagogue in Delme, via the exhibition
Pinceaux trempés dans la Garonne’ (Paintbrushes dipped in the Garonne), which presented over a hundred paintings from the isdaT collection in Toulouse.
By moving the fine art school's workshops into the exhibition rooms of the Frac MÉCA, the students' paintings can be seen in direct dialogue with selected works from the collection and with the architecture of the MÉCA building.
It's a snapshot of what the young artists at the ebabx école supérieure des beaux-arts de Bordeaux are up to: the selection and transport of the works taking place the day before the opening, paintings under the arm in the streets of Bordeaux, like a procession through the building sites in the station area, between the quays, rue de Jean Descas and rue de Saget.
And the choice of works in the collection, which was also very spontaneous, was made by the students themselves.
Of course painting is fashionable, and in fact it always has been, but the main aim of this exhibition is to show just how much it remains a source of pleasure, an inclusive space, and an inexhaustible source of knowledge. So there will be figuration, abstraction, conceptual painting, collective gestures, finished paintings, unfinished paintings... and above all there will be the energy of a new generation of artists who, despite the sometimes desperate times we live in, remain passionate and never get bored.

Corentin Canesson

An exhibition organised by Nicolas Milhé and Annette Nève, Director of Studies at ebabx.