L’aparté, the contemporary art centre beside the lac de Trémelin, shows what came of a residency by Nicolas Desverronnières. He cuts wood in taille directe, sculpts bas-reliefs, lays installations on the floor and draws with charcoal powder on panels. The work takes hold of the building’s exterior cladding, so each piece is read against the architecture. Its matter is the natural patrimoine of the lake and the artisanal savoir-faire around it.
Tag: contemporary-art
De phare en lumière: Ramiro Chaves at the Pointe du Raz
Ramiro Chaves photographed the Breton coast after dark, with the beam of a lighthouse for his only light. He made the series along this shore during a residency run from Brest by the Centre Atlantique de la Photographie. A photographer from Córdoba who has long lived in Mexico, he sets those images against a stronger southern light. The show joins the Maison de site’s season on lighthouses and the Curieux Mexique cycle of a Cap Sizun collective.
Les Minutes Bleues at La Galerie, Binic-Étables-sur-Mer
Rue Touroux holds La Galerie, where the contemporary artist Elsa Tomkowiak sets strong colour, volume and movement through space at the crossing point of painting and sculpture. A café follows the walk through the rooms, and the group trades what it noticed. The fifth edition of Les Minutes Bleues puts such sessions in the natural and cultural patrimoines of the Côtes-d’Armor, read in the blue light of dawn or dusk. Admission is free, every age is welcome, and booking is strongly advised.
Les Minutes Bleues: Elsa Tomkowiak at La Galerie
Colour, volume and circulation through a space are the materials Elsa Tomkowiak works with, somewhere between painting and sculpture, and La Galerie on Rue Touroux hands its rooms over to her for one appointment in the fifth edition of Les Minutes Bleues. Walking the installation comes first, then a café where the group puts words to what it has just crossed. The intercommunal tourist office of Binic-Étables-sur-Mer programmes it locally, inside a festival that Côtes d’Armor Destination builds across the natural and cultural heritage places of the department, under the blue light the festival is named for. Every age is admitted, booking is strongly advised, and admission is free.
Salon Vibrations at the Abbaye de Léhon
The second edition of the Salon Vibrations fills the Abbaye de Léhon with contemporary work. Paintings, sculptures, wall pieces and one-off objects form a route laid out so that each work answers the space it stands in. The artists and the artisans d’art stay for the whole run and talk through the story behind a given piece. The abbey is a protected monument whose heritage the organisers treat as part of the show.
Paris-Berry / Berry-Paris: six artists of the in-between
Six visual artists answer a question George Sand lived out: does shuttling between Paris and the Berry produce a place that is nowhere? Their works run from the old oak of the Maitres sonneurs to journeys by train. Danielle Autissier-Vasseur, BerTrand, Catherine Autissier-Maître, Delphine Dewachter and Elise Blanchard show in the Hall des Bains-Douches at Lignières. Phalène-Arts pluriels presents the exhibition, and admission is free.
Vincent Barré: Sculptures at Les Hauts de Sancerre
Vincent Barré fills the gardens of Les Hauts de Sancerre with monumental sculptures cast in aluminium from polystyrene models cut by hot wire. Column, Core and Triple Hulls have the archaic look of archaeological fragments and tell no story. Their surfaces keep the striations, corrections and splices of the work, so the hand that made them stays legible. Visitors enter by the Porte César esplanade, at the top of the wine town.
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.
Claire Linard: Porcelain in Mehun-sur-Yèvre
Fine, luminous porcelain meets rougher stoneware in Claire Linard’s exhibition in Mehun-sur-Yèvre. Descended from generations of potters, she carries inherited skills into functional and decorative pieces with markedly different textures and forms. Wood firing leaves room for unexpected transformations, giving the finished ceramics a tension between technical control and the action of flame.
Les Bretons dans tous leurs états: Maryse Vanghent
Brittany supplies the inspiration for Maryse Vanghent’s Les Bretons dans tous leurs états. Originally from Dunkirk, the painter trained in egg tempera and oil painting before making her home in the region. Her practice also includes restoring chapel murals at Château de Blain with the Compagnons de Saint-Roch, a background in craft that accompanies this exhibition of her own work.