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Didier Fusillier at Parc de La Villette, in Paris, in June 2016. NICOLAS KRIEF FOR “THE WORLD”
Emmanuel Macron, who is slow to appoint successors to Catherine Pgard at Versailles and to Jack Lang at the Arab World Institute, has, for once, quickly decided. Didier Fusillier, 64, who has presided over the Grande Halle de La Villette in Paris since 2015, will take over the reins of the Réunion des musées nationaux-Grand Palais (RMN-Grand Palais) on September 1. « His name has become obvious, because he is able to implement a project aimed at the general publicwe confide to the Elysée. The successful activation of a site as complicated as La Villette convinced Emmanuel Macron that he could brilliantly activate that of the Grand Palais. »
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To succeed Chris Dercon, who had left office at the beginning of May to join the Cartier Foundation, the Ministry of Culture has proposed a personality who resembles him. Almost the same age – which reduces his prospects to a single mandate –, same Nordic roots, audacity to spare. “After Chris’ passion, we needed Didier’s passion and his momentum, his talent as a team leader, his ability to embrace both heritage and innovation, to work with other Parisian institutions and local », greets the Minister of Culture Rima Abdul Malak.
A stirrer of ideas, attached to cultural democratization, Didier Fusillier can claim many successes. The Lille 2004 operation and the transformation of the Saint-Sauveur station into a cultural and festive place? It’s him. The development in 2013 of the banks of the Seine returned to Parisian pedestrians on the left bank? Him again. As well as the Micro-Folies, these digital museums intended to introduce masterpieces to those who are furthest from them.
artistic tsunami
Blue gaze and contagious enthusiasm, the new president of the Grand Palais does not have the international stature of his predecessor, but a much better knowledge of French communities. It was in Maubeuge (Nord) that the native of Valenciennes cut his teeth, launching the multidisciplinary festival Les Inattendus in 1987 before taking over, three years later, the direction of the Manège, a national scene with a cross-border vocation. A position that he combined in 1993 with the simultaneous management of the Maison des arts de Créteil (Val-de-Marne).
From 1999, Didier Fusillier made Lille, labeled “European Capital of Culture”, his new laboratory. To mobilize the greatest number, the man who whispers in the ear of the mayor, Martine Aubry (socialist), crosses noble and popular culture, with an assumed taste for collective celebrations and barnum. “We must not hesitate to create a whirlwind”he repeats at will, subsequently declining this twirling program in three years under the label “Lille 3000”.
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