The Guy Brunet Paravision association has just written to the Drac and the communities so that the fresco created on the house of the Viviézois artist can be saved, and for the creation of a museum.
The notoriety of the Viviezois artist Guy Brunet, now aged 79, continues to grow. Since the age of 7, he has developed his own universe – Paravision – around the golden age of American cinema in the mid-20th century. He thus created figurines representing his favorite actresses and actors, to have them play in the animated films that he directed after writing the scripts.
It was in his house in Viviez-Pont that he established his workshop, even if he regularly installed his tools on the sidewalk of Avenue Adam-Grange, to create his characters, in front of the fresco of 5.20 m by 2.40 m made on the coating covering the gate of his home.
Why this fresco is important
“This work is essential in Guy Brunet's career. It is thanks to this fresco that he had his first exhibition. At that time, there was no Viviez diversion and all road traffic passed in front of his home It was then that he was noticed by Pascal Saumade, gallery owner in Sète, and exhibition curator at the Miam (international museum of modest arts) in Sète. there since then, he has been exhibited in numerous places including internationally. His recent exhibition in Villeneuve-d'Ascq attracted more than 60,000 visitors and attracted rave reviews in prestigious cultural publications.explain Alain Solignac, Lilian Bathelot and Jean-Louis Calmettes, respectively president, secretary and treasurer of the Guy Brunet Paravision association, created in 2016 with the aim of “allow the artist Guy Brunet to be able to create and work in complete serenity in Viviez in places adapted to his daily life and his art; to allow the creation of a museum in Viviez in order to highlight the pictorial work and cinematographic; to create various animations around the work of Guy Brunet in order to make this artist known at the regional, national and international level. We remember the film “The Fabulous History of Paravision”, directed by Lilian Bathelot and Renée Garaud in 2013; who won the Fifigrot prize the same year; and which was broadcast several times by Canal +.
The association says it is worried about the future of Guy Brunet's house, which he no longer lives in and which the town hall has decided to buy, as well as a second house in poor condition, also belonging to the Brunet family, attached at the first.
“An emblematic fresco”
The association has just written to the Drac (regional directorate of cultural affairs) and to the communities: “We must keep this emblematic fresco of which a facsimile was produced for Guy Brunet's exhibitions. We are looking for a political will which will take hold of the project and give it the means, that is to say say to set up a structure capable of creating a center to house these works and make them profitable. We regularly communicate constructively with the town hall, thanks to whom we were able to shelter Guy's works, which several museums are eyeing. The mayor is part of the association.”
Jean-Louis Denoit, mayor of Viviez reassures: “We have made premises available to the association to store the works. The town hall's purchase of the two Brunet houses is in progress, in order to keep control. We are in the diagnostic stage. I responded to the letter, very interesting, from the association: the house which collapsed will be demolished because it is dangerous The other, the former home and workshop of Guy Brunet, will be the subject of preservation and reflection to examine what developments will take place. can intervene, including for works. I wrote to this effect to the president of Decazeville community, a community which carries culture.”
