The cultural offering is developing in the Siam district of Brest. After La Petite Galerie at the bottom of rue Pasteur this Thursday, December 12, 2024 and, in another register (more flea market), the Galerie du Château in September, the Galerie Alain Hélou opens this Saturday, December 14 at Place Wilson, in place of the Ô Square sandwich shop. A pre-opening until December 31 since the finishing touches will be carried out in January 2025, for an inauguration at the end of this month. “I am happy to open here, very close to the Antinoë and Françoise Patris gallery (at 30, rue Émile-Zola), the Museum of Fine Arts, the art school (EESAB) and Comoedia,” on the other side of the square.
“Pure Kerichen product”
Originally from Brest – “I am a pure product of Kerichen from kindergarten to Lettres sup, before leaving at 19 for Sciences Po Toulouse” – Alain Hélou founded the Ateliers du Vent, in Rennes, in 1996. He left in 2014 for Saint Petersburg, Russia, to lead the cultural cooperation network between France and artists.
I resigned from my post in Moscow because it no longer made sense.
Returning to France in 2019 at the Ensemble Sillages (contemporary music), he was “asked to go to Moscow as a cultural attaché, six months before the war” in Ukraine. “Six months after the start of the war, I resigned because it no longer made sense. » This is the essence of his journey.
Also exhibit elsewhere?
In the 25 m² of this “microgallery”, as he calls it, he will exhibit ten contemporary artists that he has known for a long time: the designer Morvandiau, also Mylinh Nguyen, Ilann Vogt, Christophe Ecobichon, Gwénaëlle Rébillard, Mioshe, Sébastien Thomazo , Dimitry Bulnygin, Kazy Usclef and Elizabeth Saint-Jalmes. A focus will be made regularly on one or one of them and works of 20th century artists will be brought together to be compared with those of these current artists. Alain Hélou plans to exhibit them in other places in Brittany and France before, perhaps one day, abroad.
Practical
Galerie Alain Hélou, 36, rue Émile-Zola in Brest. Open until December 31, 2024 then at the end of January after the end of the work. Monday to Saturday from 12 p.m. to 7 p.m. and Sunday from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m.
