“The trial in uselessness of culture is gaining ground in France, the same which is at work in America by Donald Trump” | EUROtoday

Du Grand spectacle, wealthy in passions, was given in Dijon on March 20. Not by actors within the theater, however by the elected officers of the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté area gathered in a plenary meeting. During the finances vote, a priori little poetic train, there was discuss of creation and the exhibition on “degenerate” artwork “, at the Picasso Museum, in Paris. The elected officials of the National Rally (RN) are convinced, during this sequence, to have been compared to Nazis and this episode says a lot on the dirty quarter of an hour that culture passes in France.

It all started when the regional councilor RN Julien Odoul estimated that the region, held by the left, could save 65 million euros by cutting subsidies which he considers useless, especially those for contemporary art. The position of the elected official is not atypical, part of the population assimilating current art to a scam.

In this register, Julien Odoul is an artist of the brutal lexical field and permanent clash. On the subsidized culture, it has the easy trigger. Some formulas have also made its reputation, resonating on social networks: “The inventive world is affected by the ideology of the left” ; inclusive writing is a “Cancer for the French language” own has “Destroy the heritage of France” ; Franco-Malian singer Aya Nakamura is the“Apostle of linguistic and cultural decadence”.

A cultural approach that spreads

It was then that on stage Nicolas Soret, vice-president of the region, bottled in socialism by Martine Aubry and popular art by the Lille 2004 demonstration, the year when the city of the North was European capital of culture: “When Mr. Odoul says that there are waste, he instantly talks about tradition and up to date artwork. So, I’ve a proposal to make. There is an impressive exhibition in Paris, which known as “Art ‘degenerated’”, on the Picasso Museum. The subtitle is “the trial of modern art under Nazism”. It is hyperinating to see how, on the time, Van Gogh, Chagall, Picasso (…) had been conspired and chased. (…) And I say to all of the academics on this area: we are going to finance the coaches to go see this exhibition. »»

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