Address
12 rue des Fantasques,
69001 Lyon
Le Bleu du ciel is a 1901 association, created in 1999 on the initiative of Gilles and Marie-Jeanne Verneret and supported from the beginning by the City of Lyon, the Regional Council and the Ministry of Culture. This art space is dedicated to the display of contemporary photography and images, oriented towards the documentary vision. This documentary-style approach to the image is situated at the crossroads of the transversal disciplines of sociology, history, architecture, urbanism, anthropology and, above all, poetry, in this world that never stops recording and producing photographs.
It focuses on the notion of representation and sampling, which, with the help of these multi-disciplinary sciences, in the spirit of "great literature", allows us to reflect on the issue of "art and image" in our societies, questions that the artist, who has become the witness and societal poet of an era, is now asking.