The actors of tourism in the bordeaux region have not waited for the crisis of the Covid-19 to change the direction of a number of initiatives towards an ecofriendly approach. But, curiously, it is in full déconfinement that they are taking terrain. The office of tourism must unveil on June 28, its new Web site. A leaf of a tree, on which one clicks, will switch in a proposal 100 % eco-friendly, which are listed more than 140 different addresses, hotels, restaurants, activities.
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In a convergence heady, one has the impression that all the players in the city are green to celebrate the reunion with life. An urban ride, unique in France, connects the city to the vineyard, the new Museum Sea marine brings a final touch to the space dedicated to the protection of the oceans, while the Frac New Aquitaine offers, in a superb architecture, the gaze of contemporary artists on the flower. Even the ghost ship of the submarine base, a huge mass of black that recalls the dark days of the history of the city, it is painted in the last few days of the show Pools of Light.
Gustav Klimt to the bordelaise sauce…The submarine base hosts the show Pools of Lights featuring Klimt to the honor. UGO AMEZ/SIPA/UGO AMEZ/SIPA
for years, the fate of the submarine base of Bordeaux, built during the Second world War by the Germans has been the subject of envy. The building, consisting of a block of reinforced concrete of 245 metres long, 162 metres wide and 20 metres high, is a kind of a bunker is deemed indestructible. Eleven alveoli of 100 meters long, the operator Culturespaces in now occupies four, equipped to accommodate huge projected digital images: Pools of Lights. Process proven to the Quarries of Lights of Baux-de-Provence and The Workshop of the Lights in Paris.
For Bordeaux, Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, among other artists of the viennese Secession, have invaded the former submarine base German. Programming is strange, the artists had no link with Bordeaux. Some members would have preferred Toulouse-Lautrec, who died in the neighbouring castle of Malromé. Also, when resound through eighty pregnant the first notes magnificent Tannhäuser of Richard Wagner, then, that prints on the walls of concrete, the face of Adele Bloch-Bauer, the Woman with The necklace, famous painting of Klimt’s work, one cannot help but feel a malaise.
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In this sanctuary of the Occupation, the choice of a painter held in contempt by the nazi regime and works of the dispossessed appears to be clumsy. “It should not be the policy everywhere…”, pleads Augustin de Cointet, director of the site. Certainly… many minutes are necessary for that to dissipate the misunderstanding. There is much to be said about the numerical treatment of the works. The gold and the flowers of Klimt’s stream, a little like The Workshop of the Lights in Paris, in geometric shapes overly magnified and end up on the walls and the floor, carpet, and wallpaper. Still, despite all the technical performance, the magic and the poetry of what became “the greatest centre of digital art in the world”.
Tel.: 05 35 00 00 90 ; culturespaces.com
A new museum for the merDans the district of Bassins à flot, the museum Sea Navy and its beautiful model ships. Teddy Verneuil – lezbroz
In this same district of Bassins à flot amounted, in the last few months, the Museum Sea marine, private initiative of Norbert Fradin, a collector in bordeaux is passionate about the topic: “The city has always lived with an intense port activity that it has been deprived physically in 30 years,” says the creator of the museum. Suddenly the Bordeaux region have for a long time concealed until Alain Juppé, mayor of Bordeaux, sent down the barriers and make it again possible access to it.” But the museum has avoided the trap of reading egocentric of the “Bordeaux on sea”, proposing just the opposite.
On 6 000 m2 and three floors, in a museum superb, the about takes the wide, worn by models, tables, prototypes of all who may sail from its origins to today. We see some rarities like a boat moon, one of the only boats still used today for fishing (in Bangladesh), and the form and technique of construction have never changed in a thousand years. The last floor is entirely dedicated to the protection of the oceans, occupied in its center by a turtle of bronze taken in a net, a contemporary work by Philippe Pasqua.
89, rue Strangers, phone: 05 57 19 77 73 ; mmmbordeaux.com
The first GR metropolitan franceLe park to the Angelic. Nicolas Duffaure
Inaugurated this fall, the GR Bordeaux Métropole is a loop of 125 km (160 km if you count a few detours), passes through 17 communes. “The scenery that invites us to discover the path are marked by extreme diversity,” explains Laurent Hodebar, the project manager, who wishes “to promote roaming, soft alternative to the discovery of the Bordeaux monuments of the Unesco”. Streams of living water in the valley of the Water Blunder, vineyards in the appellation Pessac-Léognan, or maritime pine trees on the common Haillan are crossed by the GR Metropolis, including the guidebook, delayed by the crisis of the Covid-19, will be out in a few weeks. To wait and moving, the tourist offices and the town councils of the metropolis are delivering a document free of charge. Connected to the tram, the bus and the Bat3 (river transport, hybrid), and the GR well-marked can also be done section by section, starting from Bordeaux. Accommodation in shelters in peri-urban areas (free of charge) has been put in place: 12 cabins-huggers of 6 to 8 people, on the principle of a refuge in the mountain.
unairdebordeaux.com
the flowers of The Frac
the House of The creative economy and culture, otherwise known as Meca, is the work of Danish architect Bjarke Ingels, inaugurated last June, is home to the collections of the fonds régional d’art contemporain (Frac). Huge stairs in the bleachers allow you to climb up on your roof and assess the full magnitude of this architectural gesture major spearhead of the new district of Euratlantique, proche of the Saint-Jean train station. An exhibition, Narcissus, or the flowering of the worlds, is on show until 22 August.
Hosted by a touching child from Tangier wearing a crown of Iris, which is the work of Yto Barrada, this presentation will renew the look of the artists on the flower, “matrix powerful, which made up three-quarters of the plant biodiversity”. A about brought by the works of Suzanne Husky, Pierre et Gilles, Pierre Molinier or even Jeff Koons… This exhibition is the opportunity to also enjoy the interior architecture of the museum space, broken lines, and points of view, cut large windows in the oblique walls. The terrace of the 5th floor discovers, finally, a panorama of new Bordeaux.
5, parvis Corto Maltese, phone: 05 56 24 71 36 ; la-meca.com
Darwin’s pioneering
The best student, in terms of environmental responsibility, the first, remains the ecodistrict Darwin, whose reputation goes far beyond Bordeaux and was able to install in the landscape of the city, an alternative venue that some have called bobo. Adjective that makes you smile its artistic director, Tristan Barroso. “We are not in revolt against a system, but we support a transition towards new models,” he says. Installed in the former caserne Niel, the site brings together in one place, restaurant, grocery store, farm, business incubator, skateboard park, covered, bicycle repair shop, and an artists ‘ residence among other nuggets (87, quai des Queyries ; darwin.camp).
on the Right side, in the same neighborhood of the house, Eklo , ranked the hotel in the most green of bordeaux, bordered by a vegetable garden that is urban, concentrated number of initiatives in the area environmental recovery of the urban heat geothermal, photovoltaic panel, energy saver in the room… mid-way between the youth hostel (with beds-boxes 20 € per night) and of the individual rooms, including comfort and aesthetic design are particularly successful. The rate is astonishing: 45 € for a double room. A set of initiatives that now put the city in the first rank of international destinations eco-friendly, which it should in a few months pick up the label.
