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Living an artistic and offbeat discovery in the heart of the largest open-air museum of contemporary art, this is the extraordinary experience that we offer to the students during this outing near Digne-les-Bains. The Gassendi Museum's Mountain Art collection presents many works by contemporary artists, scattered in nature over several municipalities of the UNESCO Geopark of Haute-Provence, in often unusual places. The works then take on a new meaning of the development of the rural environment by bringing their originality while keeping their specificity as "in situ" works.

This outing will lead us to question three particular works: The Hannibal Pavilion by Trevor Gould and A Thousand Meal Trays by Stéphane Bérard, at Le Vernet, and Les Hydropithèques by Joan Fontcuberta in the clues of Verdaches. Beyond their artistic dimension, these works will be an opportunity to question the meaning of art and to awaken our critical thinking by questioning ourselves on the useful, the true and the false, with humor. We invite you to continue this outing by visiting the archives room of the Hydropithecus and discovering the work Collection index Digne, by Mark Dion, at the Gassendi Museum in Digne-les-Bains For whom? Students from the 6th to the Terminale Where? Le Vernet, Clues de Verdaches and Digne-les-Bains Subjects concerned: Visual arts, Geology, Geography, History, Documentary research Objective: Thanks to humorous, historical and scientific approaches focused on criticism and collective reflection, the mountain guide will propose to the students to go beyond simple observation to learn to position their gaze in a broader perspective free of any manipulation! Frame: State-certified mountain guide certified by the Gassendi Museum, active member of the association l'Art en chemin whose vocation is to highlight the works outside the walls of the Gassendi Museum. Accompanying person rate: 350€ (1 accompanying person for 1 class) Thanks to humorous, historical and scientific approaches focused on criticism and collective reflection, the mountain guide will propose to the students to go beyond simple observation to learn to position their gaze in a broader perspective free of any manipulation!