The place is well worth it. A bucolic corner reached by a train that takes its time, winding through expanses of smooth green before stopping at a station just outside Clermont-Ferrand.
The artists are waiting to take me to their studio.
It's the hottest day of summer. The garden, dotted with works of art by an artist friend of the family, is a haven of freshness and poetry. The journey is complete.
The weightlessness, light and delicacy that emanate from the work of Atelier Horizon Verre are projected onto their workshop.
Atelier Horizon Verre is four hands, two worlds, a multitude of skills and emotions, it is Mélanie and Justin who shape the light, each in their own way.
The Atelier is large and composed of two separate spaces. One dedicated to firing and polishing, the other to storage and special handling. This duality echoes that of the artistic tandem.
If they work together on common creations, the Atelier Horizon Verre is two creative researches, in unison or in dialogue, which constantly stretch their possibilities, towards a new perspective, extensible, always new, always more poetic.
Born from the creative elective affinities of Mélanie Gracia & Justin Hemery for a common medium of expression, the Atelier Horizon Verre traces the correspondence of their two practices and universes.
Mélanie likes to explore varied subjects with a constant search for the association of figurative or abstract elements, with in the background the permanent establishment of a space for dialogue with those who will look at her works and who remain the central actors of her work.
Justin draws his inspiration from nature and the multitude of phenomena that express it, whether mineral, meteorological, geological, telluric or celestial. The emotion that stems from its manifestations and the humility they induce are a source of infinite research for him. He develops a search for multiple emotions and an equally prolific creativity.
The result of these creative fields with panoramic opening of emotions is the Atelier Horizon Verre.
At the end of the day, I regretfully leave this bucolic bubble nourished by Art where time seems suspended, my senses filled with wonders to be recounted for a while.
A luminous and sensitive work to discover in more detail here
Summer has ended its course and is projecting its last fires at the beginning of autumn.
Softer, they announce a rare season, rich in colors and sparkles, a burst of flamboyant renewal, like an aesthetic final bouquet.
This late season is gently taking shape, with less darting rays and less harsh light promising to multiply beauty.
It's not fall, it's just the Indian version of summer.
Claude Como, a multidisciplinary visual artist, expresses herself through oil painting, ceramics, resin, charcoal and wool.
Born in Ivory Coast, she lives and works in Marseille. It is from this identity forged between two continents that her artistic research evolves.
She discovered tufting in 2019, on the internet, and very quickly took ownership of this practice which touches a tactile and more sensory dimension to her work, opening an incredible sensual dimension between her work and those who will discover it.
It is this immersive work that is highlighted in his exhibition “Sweet Symphony” at the Menton museum gallery.
This exhibition brings together 130 textile works, including a truly oversized installation, which draws us into a world where visitors are "invited to touch" as the artist invites.
The installation is gigantic (60 m). "Sweet Symphony," the eponymous title of the exhibition, is a complete immersion in the colorful and poetic imagination of Claude Como.
A full and rare sensory journey
From June 1 to September 21, 2024
Museum Gallery Palace of Europe
8 avenue Boyer 06500 Menton
The Château d'If, its legends, its majesty and its mystery, its thousand and one stories including that carried by the novel by Alexandre Dumas, stands imperturbable off the coast of Marseille, it is reached from the Old Port.
Since this summer, it has been particularly dazzling the horizon, a temporary work of art renamed "marine flux 2024." Adorned with vibrant colors, it invites the gaze more than ever.
Like a modern siren, it draws us into the odyssey told by Miguel Chevalier, who covered it in canvas and transformed the building into a cabinet of curiosities.
We succumb to the visual song of his 3D printed sculptures, drawn under a blue light that transports us to a world of flamboyant corals in the heart of a fantastic ocean.
The artist chose shapes and colors inspired by "the energy that is generated around this island."
The exhibition inside the castle offers an immersive experience in the heart of an underwater world modeled in 3D ceramic and recycled plastic and offers a journey beyond the boundaries of reality.
An exhibition with almost psychedelic connotations.
Miguel Chevalier
Until September 22, 2024
Château d'If
Marseille
The Ceret Museum is hosting a retrospective exhibition of Teresa Lancet, the Catalan artist who chose Penelope's medium, tapestry, to create a modern-day Ulysses, exploring at her fingertips the particular know-how of this practice, of Berber or Gypsy communities.
With the theme of collective memories, the exhibition retraces in 70 works, including many previously unseen, the journey of this committed artist who has drawn her Ariadne's thread between textiles, paintings, drawings, ceramics and videos.
A luminous exhibition
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Teresa Lanceta “Woven Memory”
From March 2 to June 2, 2024
Museum of Modern Art of Céret
8 Bd Maréchal Joffre, 66400 Céret
Maubuisson Abbey offers a sensory journey with seven artists as guides to these new lands where the senses intertwine.
Hearing, sight, touch, taste and smell intertwine in works to be felt for a fabulous poetic journey with the superb Abbey as a setting.
We seem to feel the color, see the softness and hear the scents.
An almost initiatory sensory journey in a historic place.
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“Sentience, listening to the scent of color”
from March 29 to September 1, 2024
Cistercian Abbey of Maubuisson , Saint-Ouen-l'Aumône
It is an unclassifiable place, almost out of the imagination, at the crossroads of the charming incongruity of Lewis Caroll and a refrain of Charles Trenet, a place of harmonious collusion where reverie becomes real, the flea market - tea room, the tea room - antique dealer, the antique dealer - gallery and the gallery - jam house... And time suspended.
La maison d'Horbé, a richly decorated flea market and tea room nestled in a charming village in the Perche region, is an unclassifiable place where three generations delight the senses, from homemade tarts and cakes under cloches to marvels picked with precision and passion, all wrapped in the aroma of jams simmering in a cauldron.
A delicious interlude
Horbé's House
Main Square - La Perrière 61360 LA PERRIERE
Shy, he is nevertheless there.
Although it may not yet be displaying its new colors and its azure sky is not yet assured, spring is nevertheless here, and very much here.
Behind the scenes, he foments whirlwinds and impulses, desires and renewals with an even more intense passion for what he makes himself languish.
New pages open, and new chapters begin.
Spring is awakening. And with it our love of beauty.
Samuel Latour unwittingly sculpts the innermost beings of others. The artist creates and shapes abstract sculptures in which his own journey becomes the starting point for a story that others will tell (themselves).
His sculptures, once completed, belong to those who look at them.
Vertical electrocardiograms, they appeared to me as bursts of life captured in matter. Sculpted emotions defying heaviness rather than gravity.
When asked this question, Samuel gives free rein to our imagination, leaving no stone unturned in assumptions and allowing his works a new life, a new echo that resonates differently in each person's eye and emotions.
This generosity is one of the traits that strikes you when you meet the artist. There is a total abandon and trust in the connection he places between his work and those who will discover it.
It is with this same prodigality that he welcomes me into his studio in Toulouse, where he has settled after a veritable artistic pilgrimage.
He had the workshop in transit, sharing, traveling and even sometimes interior before taking root in the pink city.
A graduate of the Boulle school, which he joined in the second year of Art turning, it was the profession of Art bronze worker that would fascinate him as soon as he left school and he would work with great designers in Paris and Berlin as well as with foundries.
A gleaner of know-how and horizons, each discovery is a new passion, each new gesture a new path.
A year of vibrant travel discoveries in Nepal, Burma and Vietnam where he discovered other skills, other heritages and traditions and shaped his aesthetic horizon, towards ever more openness and freedom, of gesture and creation.
He works in a permanent exploration of volumes, materials, wood, bronze or even plaster, of varied and precise know-how such as wood turning, casting or chiseling on bronze and abstract expression.
The thread that binds this beautiful trinity is an undeniable fantasy, free and unfettered, born from artistic inspirations as well as from the smallest details of everyday life. And it is these stories of silent yet vivid eloquence that her sculptures invite us into.
Bubble wrap rolls play tightrope walkers high above, while in another room, shelves are adorned with essays, explorations, and old works.
At the back, there is a desk where sketches sit alongside a computer, an essential tool that connects him to his students (he has been in charge of the wood workshop at the Toulouse School of Fine Arts _I.SDAT_ since 2018) and as an essential link with his clients who cover a horizon almost as broad as his own.
Despite the sanding noise from the neighboring workshop, there reigns a joyful serenity, an unshakeable enthusiasm, and it is with this feeling of lightness that one leaves his workshop.
Between two, uncertain and unpredictable, the blue hour is that lapse of time that stretches between shadow and light, at dawn or dusk when the two embrace for a brief moment.
From this furtive tango springs a deep and serene azure, which erases the darkness and colors, almost inhabits, the light.
From this fleeting exchange a rare magic is born, in a brief instant the poetry of all things appears.
In the heart of winter, we celebrate heating blue, cobalt, turquoise, ultramarine, cyan, Klein, turquin, sapphire or celestial, to remind ourselves that the blue hour is above all an inner journey.
