Nu sur le câble

Fred Forest, experimenter and teacher at the Ecole d'art de Cergy since 1987, has inaugurated with his usual humour another form of lesson in the nude.

Not just for the students at his art school in Cergy, but for all the people in the region who receive cable TV. This free service is a kind of local television made available to all residents by the people in charge of the new town. This lesson on the nude will therefore take place remotely, unlike traditional lessons where the model is present right in front of everyone's eyes. Anyone at home will be able to take part by watching TV and listening to the Professor's advice, and produce a nude drawing over the course of three sessions. The drawings, which have no selection criteria, will all be presented at a major exhibition at the École d'art de Cergy.

This exceptional exhibition will be featured on the TF1 national television channel's evening news. The chosen model, Eugène Delacroix's Woman with a Parrot, will be personified by a student volunteer chosen from three other candidates.

This video will be repeated by TF1 on the news, where the presenter will edit it to show her head in place of the nude. The French Ministry of Culture, always ready to take advantage of the opportunity provided by the "TOUS ARTISTES DEVANT LA TÉLÉ" campaign, was quick to broadcast this initiative, which owed much to the STUDIO VIDÉO created by Fred Forest, who was the first art teacher to introduce the medium of video into French art schools, with Eric Maillet as his assistant.