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Christophe Jacquet
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Apr. 1525 at 4:00 p.m.
Almost a year after choosing Caen (Calvados) to build his fabulous musée, Jean-Claude Gandur Always take your time. Visiting in Caen For the inauguration of the exhibition By all the gods!open since the beginning of April 2025 in the castle grounds, at the Normandy Museum, the Swiss billionaire returned to the progress of the project, for which the Gandur Foundation for Art must invest 30 M €.
The building “will be finished before the end of 2030”, hopes Jean-Claude Gandur
Alongside statuettes of unknown deities, coming from the Greek Orient or Egypt, and extracted from one of his collections, Jean-Claude Gandur said, “If everything happens according to the established retroplanning, The museum must open before the end of 2030“. Quickly, he tempers:
I am not telling you that the park will be ready, but at least the building, I hope, will be finished.
As a reminder, the future museum must cover a grip of 25,000 m2 Between the memorial and the bird hill. For this, the city of Caen gives way a large lawn, sometimes serving as a parking, for only 1 €. This land will be “property of the association which has just been created”, specifies Jean-Claude Gandur. He is, of course, the president.
The parking lots removed “to make a single huge public garden”
The collector is already under discussion with the city and the Caen La Mer urban community for the development of the site, at the expense of communities. “With the municipality, we will bring together the different sites, We will slow down and limit traffic“, Already advances Jean-Claude Gandur. “The municipality will try to find alternative journeys, so that there are fewer cars that pass there [devant l’entrée principale de la Colline aux oiseaux, sur l’avenue de l’amiral Mountbatten, dans le prolongement de la rue de Rosel]. »
The billionaire’s project could arouse friction. “We would like to remove existing car parks To make a single huge public garden Between the bird hill and the memorial. »»
The future boss of the museum known at the end of the year
In the immediate future, other stages must be taken. “For the moment, I have no plan. There are only plans for the future, ”comments Jean-Claude Gandur. “We will soon announce the composition of the jury for the architectural competition. The architectural office selected must be appointed by the end of 2025.
Deadline to which the boss of the future museum must also be known. “” By the end of this year, we will haveI think, Our Managing Director “anticipates the old oil magnate.
He must be able to be associated with the concept from the start of the construction. He and I must be able to talk to each other every day to understand each other. It will be a size, which comes out, in principle, from the body of French conservatives.
Jean-Claude Gandur at home at the City Hall of Caen this summer
An overview of the museum approach to Jean-Claude Gandur must be given in June 2025 at the City Hall of Caen. After Joséphine Baker in 2024 for the 80th D-Day, the summer exhibition will be entirely dedicated to its favorite tastes and pieces. Jean-Claude Gandur describes: “The exhibition titled the collector’s eye will show the Caen population to which it will be exhibited in the future museum: what I collected in my life and why.”
The course of 80 works will work like a self -portrait. “Basically, this is how I live at home, with both a pre-Columbian statue, a sculpture from the 18th century European century. We will watch the games of colors, forms, which associate all these objects between them. It is instinctive, it’s a game,” he says. “Afterwards, I hope to find clever conservatives, who will have the same look, who will make objects, paintings, bas-reliefs, etc. play between them, etc. in the future museum.
Their debates should be fed. “I am a collector, with my ideas. The director I will choose will not necessarily follow them, ”continues Jean-Claude Gandur. “” I am resistant to the permanent collections which say nothing. A modern museum must have completely different engines. We must tell stories through immersive technologies, artificial intelligence, etc. And give people the desire to immerse themselves in different worlds. It is more didactic and interesting for today’s youth, who has much less knowledge than those we had at the time. »»
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