ALTAIS, Administrator ALTAIS Gao Xingjian Artistic approach BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES Artistic approach “ With his 'Call for a new Renaissance', that proponent of total art Gao Xingjian is advocating a new way of thinking, in order to change the wor... Le Château
ALTAIS, Administrator ALTAIS Peter Briggs Artistic approach Biographical notes Artistic approach “ As I was walking along some country lanes, I found the little wood of cut-down trees all in a pile. These heaps offered up an almost inexhausti...
ALTAIS, Administrator ALTAIS François Méchain Artistic approach Biographical notes Artistic approach François Méchain is a sculptor and photographer with a real love of nature. In the open air or on display in galleries and museums, his work draw...
ALTAIS, Administrator ALTAIS Songeries végétales Artistic approach Biographical notes Artistic approach Exhibition presented as part of the FRAC initiative"Songe d’une nuit d’été”. The Pays de la Loire, Poitou-Charentes and Centre regional contempor...
ALTAIS, Administrator ALTAIS Brigitte Olivier Artistic approach Biographical notes Artistic approach Camera in hand, Brigitte Olivier paces up and down a patch of ground on the edge of the Atlantic coast. This stretch of coastline is part of an a...
ALTAIS, Administrator ALTAIS Gilles Walusinski Artistic approach Biographical notes Artistic approach 1979: Heritage Year. To celebrate the event, the Ministry of Culture commissioned Ten Photographers for Heritage . Gilles Ehrmann, Bernard Descam...
ALTAIS, Administrator ALTAIS Éric Poitevin Artistic approach Biographical notes Artistic approach “ Time only exists through the experience of things…I would be tempted to think that it doesn’t really exist at all. More than time, it is experi...
ALTAIS, Administrator ALTAIS Alex MacLean Alex MacLean’s photographs present the vast potential of the rooftops and terraces of New York—the “fifth facade”— to the full, and the means employed to make cities more liveable in through the examp...
ALTAIS, Administrator ALTAIS Darren Almond Out of the two major photographic series presented in the Château galleries, the British artist Darren Almond provides us with a reflection on the notions of time and continuance, and also of memory –...
ALTAIS, Administrator ALTAIS Samuel Rousseau Samuel Rousseau’s video installation L'Arbre et son Ombre (The Tree and Its Shadow), celebrates the permanent renewal of nature, the strength and fragility of trees and the eternal return of vegetatio...
ALTAIS, Administrator ALTAIS Shigeko Hirakawa Artistic approach Biographical notes Artistic approach The Prés du Goualoup, 10 hectares of parkland newly landscaped by Louis Benech, has become a treasure chest of improbable plant life. Tree foliag...
ALTAIS, Administrator ALTAIS Michel Blazy Artistic approach Biographical notes Artistic approach If that banal, everyday object, the broom, is the preserve of the witch, it is also that of the homemaker. Fashioned from wood and straw, is it n...
