In Port-Cros, get to know Charles Carmignac Villa Carmignac

Musician and member of the folk-rock band Moriarty for 20 years, graduate in economics and political science (he created a newspaper sold to the group Les Echos), passionate about enigmas (he founded the company Ma langue au chat)... Charles Carmignac, 42 years old, could be qualified as a jack-of-all-trades. The difference is that this pragmatic creative goes to the end of his desires.

Since 2017 at the head of the Foundation created by his father, he says he is happy with this appointment:

Everything converges for me in this mission: art, economics, politics and even the enigmatic side. Everything interests me... I would have loved to be a gardener!

While his father's love affair with the island and the Villa dates back twenty years, he discovered them in 2012.

And it's a love story too. For sentimental, friendly and spiritual reasons, I am very attached to this place today. It has shifted a lot of lines in my life...it has transformed me.

The challenge of creating an art center on an island and in the heart of a national park, he considers it the key to success..

For my father, it couldn't be done anywhere else. He wanted a crossing, that you could leave your daily life behind, arrive with an open mind ready to welcome new things. What was the difficulty of the project is now its richness. The works are integrated into the landscape, the artists are inspired by the place and our partnership with the National Park is strengthened through common projects aiming to promote the dialogue between art and the preserved nature of the island.

What has marked him since the opening?

Seeing people crossed by a strong emotion, potentially transformed, when they were not necessarily art lovers... What is closest to his heart? To contribute through art and photojournalism to raise awareness and mobilize individual and collective consciousness.

For him, the Esprit Parc National brand is "in line with a commitment that we are pursuing with an experiment on water management, or the implementation of the principle of circular system with, in particular, the reuse of materials from the works in the vineyards that are worked in biodynamics