If you have not yet gone to admire the works of Elisabeth Mounic, painter and Marie-Pierre Majourau, glass artist, at the Maison des Patrimoines et de la Culture, do not delay, the exhibition only lasts until January 18.
Elisabeth Mounic has been painting for over 30 years, but she has been joining forces with other artists for joint exhibitions for around ten years. She met Marie-Pierre Majourau at an exhibition-trade show organized in Louey. Driven by a great passion for stained glass, she really loved her work and their collaboration was born. “The association of two arts challenges, it opens the public’s horizon.” They exhibited together in Salies-de-Béarn, at the Chambre des Métiers, at the Maison de la Région.
Marie-Pierre Majourau uses glass, combined with other materials “because it opens up possibilities to infinity”. In his artistic approach, water is a determining element, glass heated to high temperature is a slowly cooling liquid, which freezes, wrinkles… “Over time, I developed my universe, I freed myself from “a heavy academicism, my approach is freer, I develop pieces that I like and which I hope arouse emotions” she says. Trained in ceramics and glass in various workshops, she sometimes combines the two materials, seduced by the matte, shiny, transparent contrast. In 2010, she joined the national collective of glassmakers Dare d’Art and has since participated in various group exhibitions.
Elisabeth Mounic paints in oil and Indian ink. She says her painting is intuitive, emotional, based on what she has experienced, even if she doesn’t realize it. The large formats that she likes give amplitude to her movement. She painted a three-meter panel at the Luz-Saint-Sauveur chapel, for a joint exhibition with Marie-Pierre Majourau (glass), Marie-Pierre Campistro (Ceramics) and Claudine Couget (Paper). She confides “I am good at sharing, transmitting, I would like to reach as many people as possible to draw them into the heart of art. Art, culture, it is vital”. She created an association with Nathalie Dumonteil to introduce artists and different forms of expression.
“Many people think that culture is aimed at a certain elite, but that is not true, everyone can encounter an emotion in art that touches them. Education has a major role to play in the democratization of art.”
She talks about her experience with children at Andrest’s school, “the children are demanding, the workshops with them are magical moments”.
In Ibos, a meeting will take place with the children from the school and the leisure center. The exhibition is open to the public on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Town Hall Square. Free entry.
