Ecole nationale des chartes (ENC)
June 27, 2018, 12pm
30 rue du Château des Rentiers
OPPIC
75013 Paris
France
Hours: Monday–Friday 6pm–9am
T 01 44 97 78 45
F 01 44 97 79 05
f.notton@oppic.fr
As part of the rehabilitation work on the Richelieu site of the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) located at 58 rue de Richelieu 75002 Paris, OPPIC, as the mandated contracting owner, launched a consultation conducted under a restricted adapted procedure concerning the execution of a work of the “artistic 1%” in application of Decree no. 2016-360, Articles 67-70, of March 25, 2016 relative to public markets, and Decree no. 2002-677 of April 29, 2002, as amended, relative to the obligation to decorate public buildings and specifying the conditions for awarding contracts. This consultation is part of an overall approach of the 1% artistique for the entire Richelieu site, divided into three separate calls for tenders.
The establishment trains future library curators, heritage conservation officials, teachers/researchers, etc. The library of the École is exceptionally developed in the disciplines associated with its fundamental vocation: history and its sources, palaeography, philology… It boasts a specific entrance in the form of a circular hall with a high ceiling, where the piece will be located. It is a public passageway for readers and library staff. This hall was chosen by the establishment and the library to pay tribute to its patrons and donors, in the form of a pre-existing pictorial element mentioning their names. Subsequently, this hall will also be used to host small temporary exhibitions of books and documents from the library’s heritage collections. In the context of a dialogue between the piece and the architecture of the site, the artistic intervention could contribute to magnifying this volume, by making reference to the notion of vestibule, of threshold between spaces, but also between periods and generations of users.
Language used: French
Currency used: Euro
Deadline for submission of tenders: June 5, 2018 at 12pm (noon)
Budget with procedural costs included: EUR 100,000 (VAT included)
The call for tenders is available here.
Applicants are invited to download the project file free of charge from the OPPIC dematerialisation platform (PLACE) here.
Or on request from:
f.notton [at] oppic.fr and e.arambel [at] oppic.fr and p.mauduit [at] oppic.fr
Other information on how to participate in this consultation is also available here, under the same reference.
It will also be available on the following websites: Ministère de la Culture, BnF, Centre National des Arts Plastiques, la Maison des Artistes, FRAAP and the international website e-flux; in the press: Beaux-Arts Magazine (April 2018) and Le Journal des Arts (March 30, 2018).
