L'Atelier de l'Europe

Discovering the Council of Europe’s art collection

This podcast gives you a chance to discover the Council of Europe through its art collection. You will learn how the Council of Europe, which was founded just after the Second World War, has traversed the ages and fashioned the Europe of human rights, democracy and the rule of law.

From the Palais de l’Europe, the Council of Europe’s headquarters designed by the architect, Henry Bernard, past the bust of Winston Churchill, a section of the Berlin Wall and some more contemporary works, l’Atelier de l’Europe leads you through the secrets behind the most emblematic items in a collection of some 150 works made up of paintings, tapestries and sculptures.

In a unique dialogue, the podcast combines the accounts of artists and historians with testimonies of diplomats and political leaders and all those who have shaped the history of the Council of Europe..

12 episodes

Atrás The power of a word – Liberty (in French)

Paul Éluard’s famous poem is one of the most vibrant accounts of universal resistance to oppression in the 20th century. It is the centrepiece of a huge, brightly-coloured tapestry based on a cartoon by Fernand Léger. In this work in movement, “colour seeps into the written word.”

Liberté, a tapestry woven in 1978, based on a cartoon by Fernand Léger (from 1953), inspired by a poem by Paul Éluard (written in 1941)

Donated by France in 1984

 

With:

Catherine Lalumière, former Secretary General of the Council of Europe (1989-1994)

Pap Ndiaye, Ambassador, Permanent Representative of France to the Council of Europe

Sylvie Gonzalez, honorary chief heritage curator at the Paul Éluard Art and History Museum of Saint Denis

Sound archives: Paul Éluard and Pierre Seghers

Authors: Charlotte Roux, Antoine Auger, Anne Kropotkine

To find out more:

Paul Éluard, Fernand Léger, Liberté, j’écris ton nom, Seghers, 1953, re-edited 2016

Sylvie Gonzalez, Martine Créac’h, Anne Yanover, Anne Dopffer, Diana Gay, Nelly Maillard, Autour du poème Liberté. Paul Éluard et Fernand Léger en dialogue, édition Musée d’art et d’histoire - Saint-Denis / PSD, 2017

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