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.
Tag: sculpture
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.
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.
Galerie Casanova: Glass Art and Dinard Heritage
Galerie Casanova opens its doors for a look at glass sculpture and Dinard’s social history. Chantal Royant’s pâte de verre work draws on the sea, light and changing landscapes of the Emerald Coast. The gallery occupies a former dance bar created as an annex to the Gallic Hôtel, bringing the resort’s cabaret past into the visit.
Exposition Sacrés Trésors in Sainte-Anne-d’Auray: Art Unveed
Exposition Sacrés Trésors presents exceptional works from the sanctuary collections of Sainte-Anne-d’Auray. Statues, paintings, silverware and Breton costumes reveal gifts offered to Saint Anne by pilgrims from many parts of the world. Video, audio, games and models place four centuries of devotional art within the history and living culture of one of Brittany’s major pilgrimage sites.
Ce que la pierre garde in Trédrez-Locquémeau: Mosaic Art
Ce que la pierre garde presents Paulina Okurowska’s mosaic work with recycled Breton slate, a material carrying roofs, weather and rural building memory. Cut, tilted and set with glass or gold leaf, the stone becomes relief, landscape and light. Schist and weathered roof tiles retain their Breton mineral identity even as they become contemporary relief, landscape and light.
Shellfish Modelling Workshop in Dinan: Kids’ Creativity
At Musée Yvonne Jean-Haffen in Dinan, children aged 3 to 12 can Explore the fascinating world of Breton marine fauna through a shellfish modelling workshop. Kids will interact with the artist’s works and model marine animals like lobsters, shrimps, and crabs using clay. This engaging event requires reservations and presents a blend of creativity and cultural enrichment in the heart of Brittany.
Sculpture Workshops in Carnoët: A Month of Creation
The Vallée des Saints in Carnoët hosts resident sculptors as they transform Bretagne granite into monumental figures. Visitors can watch perforators, grinders and hand tools shape blocks weighing many tonnes, making the creative process visible in public. Works such as Blessed Marie-Catherine de Saint Augustin connect stone carving, saintly memory and the contemporary monument landscape of central Brittany.