Jean-Philippe Lemée / Gilles Mahé NCDGQAD

Have you heard about NCDGQAD (Nous Cherchons Des Gens Qui Aiment Dessiner) ? This school of art has existed between 1994 and 1997. NCDGQAD was based in Rennes and has had 1500 students from all over the world, especially Japan (our sponsor, APC Paris, has many stores there). The idea was to send recipes (each month) to "our" students in order to let them make contemporary art. Each drawing was reproduced (after being gently critized and graded by us) next to the other contributions on a monthly poster. We did 30 posters - plus 3 collectors - in three years, and many exhibits, even at the French Open. Since our enterprize was going on well, we had to create jobs... but we were awful managers. This is why we decided to quit.
JP Lemée and G. Mahé (who died in 1999) where the creators of this complex and exhausting project. Our main victories : exhibiting our students' drawings whith a real Picasso at the Rennes museum ; another victory on "human condition" were monthes of laughters, joy, meals, jokes... and work. Our philosophy was inspired by Robert Filliou : "Well done = badly done = not done". In other words, we were "non-teachers"...
This video is simultaneously translated in Japanese by a japanese fan who refused to show her face on the video... The world of art, in spite of articles, exhibits and so on, has obviously mostly ignored NCDGQAD".
In this video, we are so bad presentators that... we are not bad at all !
Our last exhibition was "The most "plugged in exhibit of the year" (1997 - FRAC Bretagne). After that, JP Lemée and G Mahé's collaboration has lasted for two more years, even if we had our separate works