Since the 1990s, the Colas Foundation has been working to promote contemporary painting. Each year, through a call for applications selecting artists of all nationalities, it acquires around ten paintings.

The selected artists have carte blanche to create a canvas around the theme of the road, the core business of the Colas group.

For its 2018 edition, the selection committee consists of:

  • Gérard Fromanger, Artist
  • Ann Hindry, Historian and Curator of the Renault collection
  • Alain Julien-Laferrière, Director of the CCCOD, Tours
  • Anaël Pigeat, Editor-in-chief, Artpress
  • Fabien Simode, Editor-in-chief, L'OEIL magazine
  • As well as 5 employees of the Colas group including Mr. Hervé Le Bouc, President of the Colas Foundation

To date, the Colas Foundation collection “The Routes of the Imaginary” brings together more than 350 canvases, works of artists of 40 different nationalities which reflect the richness of contemporary pictorial creation.

The Colas Foundation is a foundation of the Colas group, a world leader in the construction and maintenance of transport infrastructure, established in more than 50 countries on 5 continents.

For more information : www.colas.fr