Moulin du Pondy opens for a self-guided encounter with the mill, its history and its surroundings. An exhibition of postcards broadens that view to other mills in the Cher, setting this one within a wider regional landscape. Paintings by Naturorelie add an artistic strand to the free heritage opening, which welcomes families and friends to explore at their own pace.
Tag: art-exhibitions
L’Écume des sèves: Plants, Sculpture and George Sand
Delicate plant-inspired installations by Duy Anh Nhan Duc meet the stone architecture of the Palais Jacques Cœur in L’Écume des sèves. Sculptures and transparent forms explore both the fragility and persistence of living matter. The project also recalls George Sand’s interest in natural science and trees, drawing a line between contemporary making and the writer’s attentive study of nature.
Maintenon Through Artists’ Eyes and Archive Images
Artists’ views of Maintenon meet photographs from its past in an exhibition produced with the Fondation Mansart. Paintings, drawings and engravings interpret the château, town and surrounding landscapes. Older and archival photographs add a documentary counterpoint, allowing changes in the place to be read alongside the ways artists have chosen to picture it.
Levroux’s Heritage Through Residents’ Photographs
Landscapes and scenes of daily life appear through residents’ lenses in this participatory exhibition in Levroux. Photographs from the community contest join older and more recent views of the Levroux Boischaut Champagne territory. Buildings, details and familiar atmospheres become a collective portrait, shaped by what the people who live there choose to notice and preserve.
L’Atelier de la Cire Perdue: Bronze and Local Makers
Bronze is both material and moving image at Audrey Fléchet’s L’Atelier de la Cire Perdue. The sculptor and foundry artist presents Coccyx fêlé, an animated film made in bronze with Aurélien Bouchet-Leger. Casting demonstrations accompany work by invited local makers, ranging from Paul Bonnin’s ceramics to painting, textiles and jewellery, giving Châteauneuf-sur-Cher a meeting point for several crafts.
Que demain reste: Memory and Possible Futures
Transformed objects and low-tech materials join painting and installation in Que demain reste. Farah Bahhar and Anaël Alaoui-Fdili, graduates of the École nationale supérieure d’art de Bourges, explore memory, inheritance and personal stories. Their works move between contemporary art and science-fiction imaginings, asking how places and past experiences shape possible futures.
Laure Hinckel: Châteaux de Beauce in Black and White
Grain silos become the castles of Beauce in Laure Hinckel’s black-and-white photographs. Metal surfaces, towering forms and stores of wheat give these agricultural structures a monumental presence amid the fields. Shown through the Chemin des Arts programme, the series studies the overlap between rural work and industrial architecture in a landscape shaped by grain.
Beaux Lieux: Sculpture and Landscape in Loches
La cime des algues, also titled L’herbe au Roy, anchors the Beaux Lieux art route in Loches with a monumental work. The project brings B2X, the MAPPES collective and Jonathan Bablon into a meeting of landscape, sculpture and heritage. Other sculptural, culinary and performative elements extend a route conceived as an accessible encounter with art in the open landscape.
Matières à patrimoine: How Centre-Val de Loire Builds
Tuffeau, brick, slate, timber and raw earth shape the architectural story told by Matières à patrimoine. Produced by the region’s Heritage and Inventory Department, the exhibition follows building materials from medieval practice to the present. Flint, metal and cob widen the picture, showing how substances used for both structures and decoration define Centre-Val de Loire’s built landscape.
Tour de Vesvre: Medieval Heritage and Craft Skills
Successive layers of occupation can be followed through the medieval complex of the Tour de Vesvre. Self-guided visits introduce the site’s history and development, while exhibitions add context to its surviving fabric. Craft demonstrations and exchanges with heritage enthusiasts bring people and practical skills into the encounter with this fortified past.