As part of their training, final year CAP and Bac Professionnel students and apprentices must propose, design, produce and present a masterpiece resulting from 2 years of work.
The artistic, historical, creative and technical dimensions must be reinvested in the presentation file and of course in the final production. The apprentices of the EREA metalwork section, particularly inspired and forming a close-knit group, wanted to work on an achievement advocating human and republican values such as fraternity and team spirit.
A metal key
Odile Viale, a professor of Applied Arts and a renowned drawing artist, shared with her students the history of the key through the ages and in particular that of the Gadz’art of the École nationale Supérieure des Arts et métiers de Cluny. Seduced by this tradition where fraternity is an important value, the young people of the EREA decided to re-appropriate this tradition and in turn make a key for their class… in metal.
Ideas abound and the design work with the advice of Philippe Méjane, metalwork professor and business manager, makes it possible to create the plans, choose the materials, and plan the stages of production.
A united working group
Thanks to the cohesion of the group (Hallassane, Mehdi, Soleha, Lancé) and their enthusiasm, the apprentices create the elements (ring, hexagon, laurel, stem, bit and its numbers) and the assembly reveals their work. The project was successful, completed in time for the examination and to present their masterpiece in the Colbert Foundation competition for the academies of Montpellier and Toulouse where they won the Arts Prize.
In the meantime, perhaps, the national award or the work has been qualified.
The educational file presenting the project is visible on the EREA Lycée Laurière ENT: (erea-villefranche.mon-ent-occitanie.fr/).
It retraces all the stages of this great adventure and the creation of this work.
The Ex key of Gadl’erea will be installed at the Lycée Laurière, in Villefranche.
