Closed to the public for months, the gallery of the Château d'eau has just reopened on the banks of the Toulouse Garonne. After a dispute with the managing association, the town hall takes over the reins of this world center of photography, created in 1947 by photographer Jean Dieuzaide.
The exhibition “Rencontres” * by Bernard Descamps is the first of this new era. The 73-year-old photographer presents silver photographs born from his many trips to Africa, Asia and India. "I am delighted to be the first on the new journey," he says.
A gallery under the gallery?
The municipal project, long announced, to enlarge this vertical place by extending it to the Pont Neuf, still seems to be in the works. An architect studied the feasibility of this extension which would increase the exhibition space. Result: "It is possible and it would be two and a half to three years," says Francis Grass, the Culture Assistant. This enlargement will notably allow to exhume some of the works of Jean Dieuzaide.
A large part of the “Dieuzaide collection”, nearly 500,000 photos, entered the Toulouse archives in 2016 by donation. In 2021, a large exhibition should be mounted for the centenary of the photographer's birth.
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