World Water Day

Journée mondiale de l’Eau

20 March 2025

Philippe Castanet and Rossella Rossi: the Art and Science duo at the helm!

For the fourth edition of World Water Day celebrated at his firm, Gilles Hittinger-Roux and Galerie Roanne de Saint-Laurent organized, with our support, an exceptional evening marked by the threat of a major flood in June 2025, a 100-year replica of the 1910 flood. Philippe Castanet, former Prefect of Lozère and Director of Finance at the @prefpolice in Paris, now Director General of the @metropole_du_grand_paris, spoke passionately about the subject. Anxious subject if there ever was one, but one that the State has anticipated with great anticipation, as the threat is reinforced by the climate change we witness (almost) every day… The subject was also soothed by the sublime work of Rossella Rossi, a renowned Italian artist and beloved child of the Mediterranean, who unveiled a new series of canvases, her Nocturnes, illuminating the manifestation of her smile and her love for the element that is the source of our happiness and our worries: Water.

The excellent news is that you’ll be able to meet Rossella Rossi again on March 8 at the same address (55 avenue Kleber) and deepen your encounter with her work and visions, all more interior than exterior, all more grandiose than minimalist, offering a total immersion in the artist’s soul.

Well done to Gilles Hittinger-Roux, @the_bengeance and Elisabeth Radix. Thanks to @maxime_eelsen for helping to make this event a success.

Finally, a word to the brilliant David Colon, multitask engineer, inquisitive and combative spirit, guest of the 2023 edition, for bringing his “little grain of water” to a subject he knows well, and for sharing with us the fantastic advances of his VERDEO platform, to be followed very closely….

Agnès Bouquet