Natixis at a glance

Since 2003, Natixis has contributed to the efforts of cultural institutions to reveal the hidden treasures of our heritage to the general public and create a better understanding of the world and its evolution.

Our original cultural sponsorship policy called “Yesterday’s Heritage, Tomorrow’s Treasures”, unites and confronts past and future, heritage and creation, art and science, to guarantee that one-off cultural projects produce a rich store of meaning that enhances our heritage. This proactive dimension is essential for Natixis which strives in this way to throw new light on works of the French and international heritage.

The cultural sponsorship actions undertaken by Natixis:

• Financing of the digitalisation programme of the Albatros Collection in 2007. Owned by the Cinemathèque Française, this collection of 54 films dating from the inter-war period are of major importance from the point of view of our cinematographic heritage and the history of the Cinemathèque.
• Sponsorship of the Festival Européen des Quatre Ecrans (European Four Screens Festival), which will be held for the first time in Paris in September 2007. This festival is the first stone of a large and ambitious civic project: to set up and run in Europe a centre for research and debate that contributes to an image culture based on meaningfulness.
• reating awareness of a unique collection of animated films from the early history of film (1892-1948) belonging to the Centre National de la Cinématographie (CNC). This action will present these creative films to the public during the retrospective “From praxinoscope to cellulo, a half century of animation film in France” which will be held at the Cinématheque Française in October 2007.
• upport for the acquisition by the French state for the Mobilier national (France’s state-owned furniture) of 8 tapestries missing from the Artemise series. Displayed in its totality since May 2007 in the Galerie des Gobelins, this series is the outstanding element of a unique exhibition tracing the history of the tapestry “factory” from 1607 to our days.
• Creation of the multimedia gallery and documentary portal of the Quai Branly museum, giving access to its entire collection on the Internet.
• Presentation of the “XRays” exhibition at the Picasso Museum in Paris, designed by Xavier Lucchesi, a contemporary visual artist, and in partnership with C2RMF (Centre de Recherche et de Restauration des Musées de France, Research and Restoration Centre for France’s Museums). This exhibition reveals the internal structure of the plasters of Picasso thanks to x-ray technology.
• Financing of the transport, study and exhibition of the monumental terrestrial and celestial Globes of Coronelli, masterpieces of the 17th century presented to the public in the Grand Palais in September 2005, before their definitive installation in the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF, National Library of France) in October 2006.
• Support for the acquisition by the French state of a National Treasure, La Jeune Fille à la gerbe (Girl with a Sheaf), a terracotta sculpture by Camille Claudel which joined in 2004 its marble replica carved by Auguste Rodin, Galatée, in the collections of the Rodin Museum. A study by C2RMF (Centre de Recherche et de Restauration des Musées de France, Research and Restoration Centre for France’s Museums) threw new light on the working methods of these two artists.