The week before the school holidays was very different from the rest of the year for the students in the support, care and personal services class at Notre-Dame high school (ASSP).
For five days, the artist Fanny Maugey – who defines herself as a “plastissière”, that is to say a visual artist and pastry chef – had these young people put their hands to work to make them create cake sculptures. An academy project entitled “Visual artists in high school”.
On the one hand, the Hors Limites association, project leader, responded to the call for applications from the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté academic region by proposing that of Fanny Maugey for Nièvre. The Region keeping two artists for the department.
On the other hand, Françoise Scapin Daumal (professor of applied arts and culture representative of the vocational high school) was seduced by Fanny Maugey’s residency offer and applied, with a supporting file.
Result: the high school was selected from eight applications from Niverne.
This system aims, as Dreac specifies, “to enrich the view of students and apprentices in Burgundy-Franche-Comté on contemporary creation. »
It is true that the name “plastissière” was enough to intrigue the students who quickly became enthusiastic about this residency.
Fanny Maugey, who studied at the Beaux-Arts, also trained as a pastry chef and chocolate maker. Both serving his taste for contemporary art. The project developed at Notre-Dame – Container/Content – began with blind tastings of unusual flavors such as pollen. There were also writing games where students had to transform themselves into food. Then a visit to the earthenware museum. But the heart of the residence was the creation of an “eternal banquet”. This banquet offers very special cakes made by each young person in the class.
In wood, in concrete…
Cakes made of concrete, wooden sticks or charcoal and decorated with tinted coating using a piping bag.
And if the beginnings were not always easy, everyone was able to create these funny, timeless dishes.
At the end, the students’ pride was evident and their works were presented at an opening within the school grounds.
A small booklet has also been published. It brings together photos of the cakes with, for each, the name of its amateur artist and a poetic title of his own.
Budding artists have reclaimed a number of their achievements. Those remaining are preserved and exhibited at the high school.
