the essential
From June 10 to 23, the sculpture festival occupies the city. A rich and varied program with exhibitions, conferences, artist performances, on-site discovery day on Saturday June 22 at Espace Bourdelle.
For more than 20 years, the Bourdelle Sculpture space (school-workshop for the practice of sculpture and multidisciplinary dissemination) has placed the arts of space and material on broader paths by relying on the exemplarity of the Montalbanese artist Émile-Antoine Bourdelle.
Open to the general public and schools, this festival is a translation of the vitality and diversity of sculpture. From figuration to abstraction, from minimalism to realism and in the diversity of materials, professional sculptors and workshop practitioners will exhibit works linked to the theme “Dreams of the Earth…”.
A dream relieves, rests, soothes, and they will take us from one universe to another in a set of current creations from our region.
This year, the festival will feature more than 60 professional and amateur sculptors gathered at five exhibition venues. More than 200 works exhibited, a Sculpture In Situ day with artist meetings, demonstrations, installations, performances…
Tixa Tixador will be the guest of honor. Like a movement of continuous creation, it brings us back to the origins, to the earth, matter and mother of all things. A painter-sculptor, she chose to make paintings with stone and pigments. Her works have a unity, look at each other like turning the pages of a book, she transfigures what is deepest in us, this intimate feeling of fragility of things and beings. She will present her latest work “Bourdelle a lesson in nature”.
Exhibitions not to be missed
To the departmental council
From June 7 to 21, Monday to Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. and from 1:30 p.m. to 5 p.m., weekends from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Opening Monday June 10 at 6:30 p.m.
Exhibitors: Michel Brassac, Stephen Bruckmann, Franck Collin, Joëlle Cristina-Chazal, Jean-Paul Crouzat (photography), Julie Belhassen, Laurent Fortier, Valérie Gimenez, Gaëtan Lembeye, Collective tribute to Gaëtan Lembeye, Annie-Gabrielle Mallet, Sophie Nuncie, Alain Platet , Stéphanie Poincloux, Bruno Renard, Patrizia Rovère, Sandrine Vachon, Harut Yekmalyan.
At the Augustins space
From June 10 to 23, at the Espace des Augustins (27, rue des Augustins, in the Villebourbon district), Tuesday to Friday from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m., weekend 3 p.m. to 6 p.m., opening Tuesday June 11 at 6:30 p.m.
Exhibitors: Antoine Bonnet, Chantal Chappert, Barbara Corbillon, Ludovic Duperrex, Robin Fialip, Benoît Gasparin, Sophie Gerault, Chris Gullon, Andrew Keller, Élisabeth Lissonde, Micham, Renaud Rpbin, Tatiana Rozenblat, Marie Sanchez, Tixa Tixador guest of honor.
At the Little Comedy
From June 10 to 23 at La Petite Comédie (rue de la Comédie, near the theater), every day from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m., opening Wednesday June 12 at 6:30 p.m.
Exhibitors: Didier Fournier, MClaire Hornain, Thierry Jamme, Mathilde Lloret, Domino Chouillou, Magali Taragonnet.
At the Crier’s House
From June 7 to 29, every day from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m., opening Saturday June 8 at 11:44 a.m. 25 sculptors from Espace Bourdelle are exhibiting.
