The Grand Nuancier Workshop will aim to collectively and indefinitely extend the eponymous work-in-progress initiated in France by Kim R. Rebholz in 2023, a work of art that he wishes to offer to the city of Jerusalem / “light unto the nations”, in the hope that it will shine like a series of precious stones for the edifice – a bridge rather than a wall – of a peace that is both local and global, to which all the “children of Abraham” aspire.

This workshop will be run both before and after the construction of the dedicated place for the Grand Nuancier, alongside the organisation of temporary exhibitions of the work, in the Holy Land and elsewhere.

A special space for collaborative creativity, the workshop will embody the transformative power of colour in fostering dialogue, understanding, mutual respect and harmony – between people and with the environment – within our “common home”.

The Grand Nuancier Workshop will be structured around four key moments:

1. manual work carried out together, in its simplicity and richness;
2. reflection: our attempt to approach harmony from an artistic perspective will be complemented by others (scientific, religious, philosophical, ethical, etc.) within a holistic framework (personal, interpersonal, humanity & nature);
3. the exhibition of the collective work both within the dedicated place and off-site;
4. commitment: the good resolutions formulated at the end of the workshop will, as far as possible, be put into practice.

The Grand Nuancier Workshop certainly aims to be open to everyone, children and adults from all walks of life, in the name of the benefits of colour – a universal language: breaking down religious, cultural, social and generational barriers – when used in this way all together, as a choral celebration of diversity and unity.

It is no less true that the workshop will in particular be intended for the respective members of “conflicting parties”, starting, of course, with the Israeli, Palestinian and other communities of the Middle East, a region plagued (since biblical times, and now more than ever) by extreme violence ; our stated ambition being to explore, in such a difficult context, through this collaborative workshop, if not the most likely ways and means of  achieving it, at the very least the possibility of what we might call and pray for with all our hearts – in memoriam Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat, who frequently used this expression at the time of the Oslo Accords – The Peace of the Brave.

All this… as a glimmer of hope for a definitive settlement of this regional conflict, gone (directly or indirectly) global, on the basis of the recognition by all parties of everyone’s right to exist and live in peace, both as individuals and as peoples. In accordance with Article 1 of the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights: “All human beings are born free in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.”. Bearing in mind, too, this wisdom of Spinoza: “Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.”.

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