Expo Samantha Prigent presents the work of a painter and illustrator shaped by horses and the Breton countryside. Her childhood rides with Rica, her first horse, feed a body of paintings devoted to equestrian subjects and drawings of female silhouettes. The exhibition places animal movement, personal memory and rural landscape at the heart of the artist’s visual language.
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Salins Fire of 1825: A Historical Exhibition
Grande Saline revisits the fire that transformed Salins-les-Bains through archives, engravings, melted objects and firefighting equipment. The exhibition follows the blaze, relief effort and rebuilding rules that changed the town’s streets and houses. A hand pump from the Jura firefighters’ museum and reproductions of works by Ingres and Cicéri illustrate the response to the disaster and efforts to fund reconstruction.
Un Dimanche En Bourgogne in Dijon: Local Delights
Un Dimanche en Bourgogne brings local producers and makers together in Dijon’s pedestrianised centre. Its creative themes include ceramics, fashion, painting and photography. Cheese, gastronomy and wine are also part of the market’s range, alongside opportunities to meet the people behind the products.
A. Puifferat Exhibition in Gargilesse-Dampierre: George Sand
Aurore Puifferat exhibits paintings in Gargilesse-Dampierre in a tribute connected with George Sand’s writing. Her work brings romantic and impressionist approaches together through colour. The exhibition places a contemporary painter’s response to Sand within the Creuse Valley village associated with the writer and its continuing artistic life.
Christiane Sand Exhibition in Gargilesse-Dampierre: Artistic
Musée Serge Delaveau presents paintings by Christiane Sand in Gargilesse-Dampierre. The exhibition connects her visual work with her interest in George Sand’s literary heritage. Different themes within the paintings form a contemporary artistic tribute in a village associated with the writer, placing image-making beside literary remembrance.
Exposition A. Chartraire in Gargilesse: Art & Literature
Alexis Chartraire’s exhibition at Musée Delaveau in Gargilesse was cancelled. The planned show featured colourful marine paintings in oil and gold leaf, between figurative and abstract forms. The painter and writer made his first drawings in George Sand’s garden at Nohant. His planned tribute to the writer included a painting of the house she loved in Gargilesse.
Exposition “Impressions” in Éguzon-Chantôme: Light Inspired
Didier Alonzo presents Impressions in Éguzon-Chantôme. The paintings examine light in the natural world, making its changing effects the exhibition’s central subject. Across the displayed works, the painter approaches landscape through the relationship between illumination and painted form, bringing this body of work into the town’s exhibition programme.
George Sand Tribute in Gargilesse-Dampierre: Art Display
Ce que disent les arbres brings paintings and drawings by Christiane Sand and Louis Jourdan to Gargilesse-Dampierre. Nature provides the subject of the works in this tribute to George Sand. The exhibition places the two artists’ interpretations within a village associated with the writer, joining contemporary images and literary remembrance.
C. Césari Exhibition in Gargilesse-Dampierre: Art & Color
Catherine Césari presents paintings in Gargilesse-Dampierre. Colour is central to works moving between abstraction and figurative form. The exhibition brings these different approaches together, allowing the painted surfaces and their colour relationships to shape the display within the village’s visual-arts programme.
Art Exhibition in Gargilesse-Dampierre: Romantic Landscapes
Chantal Cogne’s exhibition looks at the Indre valley through oil and watercolor landscapes shaped by a precise literary memory. The artist connects these views with the paths where George Sand and Alexandre Manceau once searched for plants for their herbariums. The countryside is never an anonymous romantic backdrop; the paintings return attention to terrain, vegetation and the act of observing. Shown in Gargilesse-Dampierre, the work brings artistic practice into a village closely associated with Sand’s life and imagination. Visitors can follow how color and water mediate between a present-day landscape and the traces of two walkers, writers and collectors. The result is a quiet dialogue between painting, botany and Berry’s cultural geography.