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The '''Château d'Eau''' is a nineteenth century [[water tower]], near to the cours Dillon, just next to the Pont-Neuf, in [[Toulouse]], [[France]].
The '''Château d'Eau''' is a nineteenth century [[water tower]], near to the cours Dillon, just next to the Pont-Neuf, in [[Toulouse]], [[France]]. The building and its pumping station have been listed as historical monuments since September 28, 1987.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Château d'eau et station de pompage |url=https://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/index2.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww2.culture.gouv.fr%2Fpublic%2Fmistral%2Fmerimee_fr%3FACTION%3DCHERCHER%26FIELD_1%3DREF%26VALUE_1%3DPA00094504}}</ref>


Le château d'eau, pôle photographique de Toulouse, also called Galerie du Château d'Eau, is a [[cultural institution]] dedicated to [[photography]], founded in 1974 in [[Toulouse]] by the photographer [[Jean Dieuzaide]].
It is now a [[photography]] gallery, founded in 1974 by [[Jean Dieuzaide]]. Directed by {{Interlanguage link|Jean-Marc Lacabe|fr}} since 2001, it is one of the oldest public venues dedicated to photography in the world.


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== History ==
The building and its pumping station have been listed as historical monuments since September 28, 1987.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Château d'eau et station de pompage |url=https://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/index2.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww2.culture.gouv.fr%2Fpublic%2Fmistral%2Fmerimee_fr%3FACTION%3DCHERCHER%26FIELD_1%3DREF%26VALUE_1%3DPA00094504}}</ref>
[[File:Galerie_château_d'eau.jpg|thumb|From left to right: [[Michel Tournier]], [[Jean Dieuzaide]], [[Michel Delaborde]], [[Gisèle Freund]] and Chantal Dieuzaide (April 1981 ).]]


Constructed in 1825, the Water Tower was a pumping station until it was saved from demolition to be converted into a gallery dedicated to [[photography]] in April [[1974]], thanks to the efforts of [[Jean Dieuzaide]], the originator of the project, and with the help of the Photographic Circle of the XII. As such, it is historically the first public gallery exclusively intended for the exhibition of photographs and the second public institution devoted to photography in general, after the [[Nicéphore Niépce Museum|Musée Nicéphore-Niépce]], founded two years earlier. Originally, only the ground floor was used as an exhibition space, before, in 1984, the basement was converted into an additional exhibition space.
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== See also ==
* {{Interlanguage link|Le château d'eau|fr}}


==External links==
== PACE ==
[[File:Toulouse_-_Château_d'eau_Laganne_-_20110325_(1).jpg|thumb|redress|Exhibition [[Antanas Sutkus]] in 2011.]]
In 1986 the management of the gallery was assigned to the PACE association (Photography at the Château d'Eau), created in 1981.

In 1990, a documentation centre and a second gallery were set up respectively under the arches of the Pont-Neuf and under one of the old access ramps to the bridge.

In the 2000s and 2010s, the documentation centre had a library of just over 13,500 books specialising in photography, including rare books but also a collection of [[DVD]]<nowiki/>s, [[VHS]] videos, [[Reversal film|35mm slides]], as well as a wide variety of national and international magazines to which it subscribes. The Château d'Eau gallery also has a permanent collection of approximately 5400 photographs, from which material for an average of a dozen educational or traveling exhibitions per year is loaned

Apart from its participation in the contemporary art festival of the 'Printemps de Septembre', the gallery of the Château d'Eau generally had six exhibition periods during which two exhibitions are in principle proposed: an established artist in the main space and an emerging artist in the second gallery, which brings the annual program to a maximum of ten exhibitions. During major monographic exhibitions, both spaces are visited by about 30000 people per year. Monographs (more than 330 at the end of 2011), works in co-editions with major publishers and posters are produced for such events.

Starting in 1974 with an exhibition devoted to [[Robert Doisneau]], the works of the greatest international photographers have been presented and the venue is one of the most important devoted to photography in France, and one of the rare national photographic institutions benefiting from an international reputation.

Three directors succeeded each other from April 1974 to the end of December 2019 at the head of the Château d'eau:

* [[Jean Dieuzaide]], from April 1974 to September 1995;
* Michel Dieuzaide, his son, from October 1995 to September 2001;
* [[Jean-Marc Lacabe]], from |October 2001 to December 2019

== Controversy ==
From January 2020, due to historically stormy relations between town hall, association and management, already deplored by Jean Dieuzaide himself <ref>Cf: passages on this subject in the biography of Jean Dieuzaide:[https://www.editions-contrejour.com/project/jean-dieuzaide-la-photographie-dabord/ Photography first].</ref>, the Gallery of the Château d'Eau is resumed in directly governed by the town hall of Toulouse instead of the PACE association in charge of the place for 33 years<ref>Corinne Carrière, « [https://france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/occitanie/haute-garonne/toulouse/photographie-quel-avenir-galerie-du-chateau-eau-toulouse-1740261.html Photographie : quel avenir pour la Galerie du Château d'Eau à Toulouse ?] », ''francetvinfo.fr'', {{date-|24 octobre 2019}}.</ref><ref>Jean-Noël Gros, « [https://www.ladepeche.fr/article/2018/12/12/2923400-galerie-chateau-eau-tournant-histoire.html Toulouse. La galerie du Château d'eau au tournant de son histoire] », ''ladepeche.fr'', {{date-|12 décembre 2018}}.</ref><ref>Christine Coste, « [https://www.lejournaldesarts.fr/creation/un-chateau-deau-sous-tension-142504 Un Château d’eau sous tension] », ''[[Le Journal des arts]]'', {{date-|30 janvier 2019}}.</ref>.

The ambition seems to be the expansion and (necessary) refreshing of the buildings, but also a reflection for better management, according to the town hall, of this institution and the fulfilment of long-standing promises made by [[Jean-Luc Moudenc]] to the Dieuzaide's heirs for the preservation and enhancement of the Dieuzaide fund acquired after long negotiations<ref>J.-M. L. S., “[https://www.ladepeche.fr/article/2017/11/19/2687589-fonds-dieuzaide-9-ans-d-attendance.html Fonds Dieuzaide: 9 years of waiting]”, '' [[La Dépêche du Midi]]'' ,19 November 2017.</ref><ref name="Thépot_2016_06_12">Stéphane Thépot, “[https://www. lepoint.fr/culture/le-photographe-jean-dieuzaide-retrouvera-son-chateau-d-eau-en-2018-12-06-2016-2046149_3.php The photographer Jean Dieuzaide will find "his" Water Tower in 2018]”, [[Le Point]], {{date-|June 12, 2016}}.</ref> by the municipality. After several announcements over more than a decade<ref>[https://www.ladepeche .fr/article/2007/11/30/377038-un-lieu-z-pour-jean-dieuzaide.html Toulouse. A “Lieu Z” for Jean Dieuzaide].</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2016-06-14 |title=Toulouse: En 2018, un écrin pour les photos de Jean Dieuzaide |url=https://www.20minutes.fr/toulouse/1864859-20160614-toulouse-lieu-zaide-ecrin-photos-dieuzaide-ouvrira-portes-2018 |access-date=2023-05-08 |website=www.20minutes.fr |language=fr}}</ref> for the creation of a dedicated place, the town hall finally charges the Toulouse Municipal Archives and the Château d'Eau to respectively conserve, enhance and bring this fund to life.

On 16 November 16, 2020, [[Christian Caujolle]], was appointed artistic advisor to the Château d'Eau<ref>{{Cite web |title=Toulouse : Christian Caujolle, un proche de Jean Dieuzaide, nommé au Château d'Eau |url=https://www.ladepeche.fr/2020/11/16/toulouse-christian-caujolle-un-proche-de-jean-dieuzaide-nomme-au-chateau-deau-9203163.php |access-date=2023-05-08 |website=ladepeche.fr |language=fr}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Christian Caujolle : « Les photographes n'ont pas épuisé leurs ressources », Du 6 janvier au 28 février 2021, Le Château d'Eau - Pôle photographique de Toulouse / Toulouse |url=https://www.ramdam.com/Christian-Caujolle-Les-photographes-n-ont-pas-epuise-leurs-ressources |access-date=2023-05-08 |website=Ramdam Magazine |language=fr}}</ref>

On 1 February 2021, and following long disputes between the elected members of the team [[Jean-Luc Moudenc#Second and third terms of mayor of Toulouse|Moudenc]] and the board of directors of PACE regarding the Château d'Eau collection – 5400 prints of photographs (including 2200 signed originals and approximately 13500 books – the administrative court of Toulouse decides and confirms the PACE association as the sole owner.<ref>{{Cite web |last=LEGUEVAQUES |first=Christophe |title=Le droit et la justice protègent l'association "Photographies au chateau d'eau" (PACE) contre la tentative d'appropriation de son patrimoine par la ville de Toulouse |url=https://www.leguevaques.com/Le-droit-et-la-justice-protegent-l-association-Photographies-au-chateau-d-eau-PACE-contre-la-tentative-d-appropriation_a749.html |access-date=2023-05-08 |website=Christophe Leguevaques Avocat barreau Paris-Toulouse |language=fr}}</ref> In reaction to this decision, the Town Hall announces that it wants to refer to the [[Court of Cassation (France)|Court of Cassation]] and the association publicly mentions the possibility of moving to [[Mazamet]] if the conflict cannot be resolved.

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== References ==
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=== External links ===
* [http://www.galeriechateaudeau.org Official site]
* [https://metropole.toulouse.fr/annuaire/galerie-le-chateau-deau Toulouse Town Hall: The Water Tower]
* [http://www.studiodifferemment.com/telechargement/PDF/toulouse5-chateaudeau.pdf Diagrams and historical notes relating to the original use of the tower]
* {{Video}} [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhAIumfJBNY ''The Water Tower story of a mutation'']
* [https://www.ina.fr/ina-eclaire-actu/video/rbf99002788/galerie-du-chateau-d-eau-salon-de-la-photographie INA video archive of June 9, 1974: ''Galerie du Château d'Eau: photography salon'']
* [http://www.ina.fr/video/RBC03004554/les-20-ans-de-la-galerie-du-chateau-d-eau-video.html INA video archive of June 8, 1994: ''The 20 years of the Water Tower Gallery'']
* [http://www.galeriechateaudeau.org/ Official website]
* [http://www.galeriechateaudeau.org/ Official website]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120307221305/http://www.toulouse.fr/cultures/musees-expos/galerie-municipale-chateau-d-eau Mairie de Toulouse : Le Château d'Eau]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120307221305/http://www.toulouse.fr/cultures/musees-expos/galerie-municipale-chateau-d-eau Mairie de Toulouse : Le Château d'Eau]



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Château d'eau Laganne

The Château d'Eau is a nineteenth century water tower, near to the cours Dillon, just next to the Pont-Neuf, in Toulouse, France. The building and its pumping station have been listed as historical monuments since September 28, 1987.[1]

Le château d'eau, pôle photographique de Toulouse, also called Galerie du Château d'Eau, is a cultural institution dedicated to photography, founded in 1974 in Toulouse by the photographer Jean Dieuzaide.

History

From left to right: Michel Tournier, Jean Dieuzaide, Michel Delaborde, Gisèle Freund and Chantal Dieuzaide (April 1981 ).

Constructed in 1825, the Water Tower was a pumping station until it was saved from demolition to be converted into a gallery dedicated to photography in April 1974, thanks to the efforts of Jean Dieuzaide, the originator of the project, and with the help of the Photographic Circle of the XII. As such, it is historically the first public gallery exclusively intended for the exhibition of photographs and the second public institution devoted to photography in general, after the Musée Nicéphore-Niépce, founded two years earlier. Originally, only the ground floor was used as an exhibition space, before, in 1984, the basement was converted into an additional exhibition space.

PACE

Exhibition Antanas Sutkus in 2011.

In 1986 the management of the gallery was assigned to the PACE association (Photography at the Château d'Eau), created in 1981.

In 1990, a documentation centre and a second gallery were set up respectively under the arches of the Pont-Neuf and under one of the old access ramps to the bridge.

In the 2000s and 2010s, the documentation centre had a library of just over 13,500 books specialising in photography, including rare books but also a collection of DVDs, VHS videos, 35mm slides, as well as a wide variety of national and international magazines to which it subscribes. The Château d'Eau gallery also has a permanent collection of approximately 5400 photographs, from which material for an average of a dozen educational or traveling exhibitions per year is loaned

Apart from its participation in the contemporary art festival of the 'Printemps de Septembre', the gallery of the Château d'Eau generally had six exhibition periods during which two exhibitions are in principle proposed: an established artist in the main space and an emerging artist in the second gallery, which brings the annual program to a maximum of ten exhibitions. During major monographic exhibitions, both spaces are visited by about 30000 people per year. Monographs (more than 330 at the end of 2011), works in co-editions with major publishers and posters are produced for such events.

Starting in 1974 with an exhibition devoted to Robert Doisneau, the works of the greatest international photographers have been presented and the venue is one of the most important devoted to photography in France, and one of the rare national photographic institutions benefiting from an international reputation.

Three directors succeeded each other from April 1974 to the end of December 2019 at the head of the Château d'eau:

  • Jean Dieuzaide, from April 1974 to September 1995;
  • Michel Dieuzaide, his son, from October 1995 to September 2001;
  • Jean-Marc Lacabe, from |October 2001 to December 2019

Controversy

From January 2020, due to historically stormy relations between town hall, association and management, already deplored by Jean Dieuzaide himself [2], the Gallery of the Château d'Eau is resumed in directly governed by the town hall of Toulouse instead of the PACE association in charge of the place for 33 years[3][4][5].

The ambition seems to be the expansion and (necessary) refreshing of the buildings, but also a reflection for better management, according to the town hall, of this institution and the fulfilment of long-standing promises made by Jean-Luc Moudenc to the Dieuzaide's heirs for the preservation and enhancement of the Dieuzaide fund acquired after long negotiations[6][7] by the municipality. After several announcements over more than a decade[8][9] for the creation of a dedicated place, the town hall finally charges the Toulouse Municipal Archives and the Château d'Eau to respectively conserve, enhance and bring this fund to life.

On 16 November 16, 2020, Christian Caujolle, was appointed artistic advisor to the Château d'Eau[10][11]

On 1 February 2021, and following long disputes between the elected members of the team Moudenc and the board of directors of PACE regarding the Château d'Eau collection – 5400 prints of photographs (including 2200 signed originals and approximately 13500 books – the administrative court of Toulouse decides and confirms the PACE association as the sole owner.[12] In reaction to this decision, the Town Hall announces that it wants to refer to the Court of Cassation and the association publicly mentions the possibility of moving to Mazamet if the conflict cannot be resolved.

References

  1. ^ "Château d'eau et station de pompage".
  2. ^ Cf: passages on this subject in the biography of Jean Dieuzaide:Photography first.
  3. ^ Corinne Carrière, « Photographie : quel avenir pour la Galerie du Château d'Eau à Toulouse ? », francetvinfo.fr, 24 octobre 2019.
  4. ^ Jean-Noël Gros, « Toulouse. La galerie du Château d'eau au tournant de son histoire », ladepeche.fr, 12 décembre 2018.
  5. ^ Christine Coste, « Un Château d’eau sous tension », Le Journal des arts, 30 janvier 2019.
  6. ^ J.-M. L. S., “Fonds Dieuzaide: 9 years of waiting”, La Dépêche du Midi ,19 November 2017.
  7. ^ Stéphane Thépot, “lepoint.fr/culture/le-photographe-jean-dieuzaide-retrouvera-son-chateau-d-eau-en-2018-12-06-2016-2046149_3.php The photographer Jean Dieuzaide will find "his" Water Tower in 2018”, Le Point, June 12, 2016.
  8. ^ .fr/article/2007/11/30/377038-un-lieu-z-pour-jean-dieuzaide.html Toulouse. A “Lieu Z” for Jean Dieuzaide.
  9. ^ "Toulouse: En 2018, un écrin pour les photos de Jean Dieuzaide". www.20minutes.fr (in French). 2016-06-14. Retrieved 2023-05-08.
  10. ^ "Toulouse : Christian Caujolle, un proche de Jean Dieuzaide, nommé au Château d'Eau". ladepeche.fr (in French). Retrieved 2023-05-08.
  11. ^ "Christian Caujolle : « Les photographes n'ont pas épuisé leurs ressources », Du 6 janvier au 28 février 2021, Le Château d'Eau - Pôle photographique de Toulouse / Toulouse". Ramdam Magazine (in French). Retrieved 2023-05-08.
  12. ^ LEGUEVAQUES, Christophe. "Le droit et la justice protègent l'association "Photographies au chateau d'eau" (PACE) contre la tentative d'appropriation de son patrimoine par la ville de Toulouse". Christophe Leguevaques Avocat barreau Paris-Toulouse (in French). Retrieved 2023-05-08.
  • Official site
  • Toulouse Town Hall: The Water Tower
  • Diagrams and historical notes relating to the original use of the tower
  • The Water Tower story of a mutation
  • INA video archive of June 9, 1974: Galerie du Château d'Eau: photography salon
  • INA video archive of June 8, 1994: The 20 years of the Water Tower Gallery
  • Official website
  • Mairie de Toulouse : Le Château d'Eau


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