The Cloître Saint-Louis, the Chapelle Saint-Michel, the Manutention, the Eglise des Célestins and the Eglise des Cordeliers: 5 venues that the city is opening free of charge to local artists and the public, to bring together contemporary art and heritage.
Objective
To enable cultural associations involved in the plastic, digital and contemporary arts to take advantage of five venues made available by the city to stage an exhibition or performance. The aim is to enable all artistic expressions to express themselves and all audiences to have access to these expressions.
Five emblematic heritage sites to showcase contemporary creations
- For "classic" exhibitions (picture rails, wall hangings, panels, mobile supports, grids):
The Saint-Louis cloister
La Manutention
- For atypical exhibitions and artistic or digital performances (sound and light, video mapping, happening, ephemeral art, culinary art...):
Saint-Michel Chapel
Célestins church
Cordeliers church
Programming :
Handling :
May 01 to 15: Spoon & Yannu' "Echoes of the unusual
"Échos de l'insolite" is an invitation to explore the beauty of memory and creativity, through the prism of an artistic collaboration between visual artist Spoon and illustrator Yannu'.
Let yourself be carried away by this fusion of visual arts and storytelling, and discover the evocative power of forgotten objects and dreamlike images in this intimate cabinet of curiosities created by 4 hands.
This immersive experience features a collection of intriguing works combining drawing and writing, embroidery, collage and sculpture, creating a rich and poetic visual dialogue on the borders of the strange and mysterious.
10 a.m. to 6 p.m., opening May 2 at 7 p.m.
May 21 to June 3: Bruno Verdet "ECCE HOMO
After exhibiting his recent paintings at Figuier Pourpre-Maison de la Poésie d'Avignon in April 2024, Bruno Verdet presents a large sample of his drawings from recent years at La Manutention.
Some are purely humorous, depicting characters grappling with an absurdity they have most often created themselves through overconfidence or credulity.
Other drawings confront the subject with the tragedy of recent history or history in the making. The slight contrast that drawing provides with the images that flood our screens allows us to see what, sometimes, we can no longer bear to look at.
Whether or not they're wearing skulls, the characters in these drawings seem to be ironically confronting us with the invariants of our humanity - sex, money, power and violence - and we can almost hear them crying out: "Ecce Homo!
"There is only one resource with death: to make art before it. (René Char)
Open daily from 11:00 am to 7:00 pm
Opening on May 21, 2025 from 5:30 to 8:00 pm.
Chapelle Saint Michel :
May 1 to 15: Jean Claude Germain "Vers quand?
"When will we be faced with the evidence that it is no longer possible to hope?
For a while there will still be society, there will still be people, faces, behaviors,
cruelty and domination. History will go on; I don't think we'll change. As part of my exhibition, I'm showing the public drawings and paintings about people who have no reputation and no hold on anything. I'm evoking their fragility, but not only that. They too can live, have fun, primp and imagine themselves as something else. I'm not interested in plastic chiaroscuro, which I don't practice but do respect. What I paint is placed "facing the day", which allows colors to be friends with each other.
In this respect, I work mainly with primary, warm colors, because they can carry and translate love, passions and the violence of the world.
I don't sell, which allows me to be a free painter! Free from salons, collectors, "the market"... In short, free not to please; because giving the visitor what he wants in the hope of selling is just about the opposite of creation (My works are cut off from any reference to money).
I have a pension to live on, and my heirs will decide. I've been painting since the early sixties. Consistently, my attention lingers on a set of realities that disturb me. The gaze I bear is an opinion that passes through my painting. For me, a painting is 50% subject and 50% execution.
Portraiture is also very important to me. I am first and foremost a portraitist. What you can find in a human face is infinite.
Daily from 10am to 12pm and from 2pm to 6pm
To enable cultural associations involved in the plastic, digital and contemporary arts to take advantage of five venues made available by the city to stage an exhibition or performance. The aim is to enable all artistic expressions to express themselves and all audiences to have access to these expressions.
Five emblematic heritage sites to showcase contemporary creations
- For "classic" exhibitions (picture rails, wall hangings, panels, mobile supports, grids):
The Saint-Louis cloister
La Manutention
- For atypical exhibitions and artistic or digital performances (sound and light, video mapping, happening, ephemeral art, culinary art...):
Saint-Michel Chapel
Célestins church
Cordeliers church
Programming :
Handling :
May 01 to 15: Spoon & Yannu' "Echoes of the unusual
"Échos de l'insolite" is an invitation to explore the beauty of memory and creativity, through the prism of an artistic collaboration between visual artist Spoon and illustrator Yannu'.
Let yourself be carried away by this fusion of visual arts and storytelling, and discover the evocative power of forgotten objects and dreamlike images in this intimate cabinet of curiosities created by 4 hands.
This immersive experience features a collection of intriguing works combining drawing and writing, embroidery, collage and sculpture, creating a rich and poetic visual dialogue on the borders of the strange and mysterious.
10 a.m. to 6 p.m., opening May 2 at 7 p.m.
May 21 to June 3: Bruno Verdet "ECCE HOMO
After exhibiting his recent paintings at Figuier Pourpre-Maison de la Poésie d'Avignon in April 2024, Bruno Verdet presents a large sample of his drawings from recent years at La Manutention.
Some are purely humorous, depicting characters grappling with an absurdity they have most often created themselves through overconfidence or credulity.
Other drawings confront the subject with the tragedy of recent history or history in the making. The slight contrast that drawing provides with the images that flood our screens allows us to see what, sometimes, we can no longer bear to look at.
Whether or not they're wearing skulls, the characters in these drawings seem to be ironically confronting us with the invariants of our humanity - sex, money, power and violence - and we can almost hear them crying out: "Ecce Homo!
"There is only one resource with death: to make art before it. (René Char)
Open daily from 11:00 am to 7:00 pm
Opening on May 21, 2025 from 5:30 to 8:00 pm.
Chapelle Saint Michel :
May 1 to 15: Jean Claude Germain "Vers quand?
"When will we be faced with the evidence that it is no longer possible to hope?
For a while there will still be society, there will still be people, faces, behaviors,
cruelty and domination. History will go on; I don't think we'll change. As part of my exhibition, I'm showing the public drawings and paintings about people who have no reputation and no hold on anything. I'm evoking their fragility, but not only that. They too can live, have fun, primp and imagine themselves as something else. I'm not interested in plastic chiaroscuro, which I don't practice but do respect. What I paint is placed "facing the day", which allows colors to be friends with each other.
In this respect, I work mainly with primary, warm colors, because they can carry and translate love, passions and the violence of the world.
I don't sell, which allows me to be a free painter! Free from salons, collectors, "the market"... In short, free not to please; because giving the visitor what he wants in the hope of selling is just about the opposite of creation (My works are cut off from any reference to money).
I have a pension to live on, and my heirs will decide. I've been painting since the early sixties. Consistently, my attention lingers on a set of realities that disturb me. The gaze I bear is an opinion that passes through my painting. For me, a painting is 50% subject and 50% execution.
Portraiture is also very important to me. I am first and foremost a portraitist. What you can find in a human face is infinite.
Daily from 10am to 12pm and from 2pm to 6pm
Openings
Openings
All year 2025 - Open everyday
