30 MAR. - 27 OCT. 2024
Art Season 2024

What if the Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire were to take on the spirit of the Jardins de Bomarzo this year, with a few monsters and a few madcap characters, fantastic characters from the world of fairy tales or mythology, in the leafy groves of the historic park!
First and foremost, La Grotte Chaumont by Miquel Barceló, a monumental ceramic work created in his brickworks workshop in Mallorca, with exceptional dimensions - almost 8 tonnes - never before achieved by the artist, a thaumaturge with a longstanding passion for the plasticity of the earth and its telluric energy. Designed in the spirit of the famous mantle of Mallorca Cathedral, but destined to withstand the ravages of time, this grotto, like the giant mouth of a monstrous animal ready to swallow us up, is a great first, both an aesthetic masterpiece and an unrivalled technical achievement.
Not far away, and just as enigmatic, Prune Nourry's giant rope-woven figures intrigue the eye, with their immense anthropomorphic silhouettes transforming into trees before our very eyes, while L'Oiseleur and L'Homme sauvage, two impressive pieces by Denis Monfleur, have taken their place in the Park's large green coppices. But the eye is not yet at the end of its surprises. Isn't that a cedar with golden veins? Thus adorned, Olga Kisseleva's jewel tree can reveal its mysterious language.

A new and equally spectacular stage in the visitor's journey is the appearance of Bernar Venet's imposing corten steel sculptures. In dialogue with the park's tall trees, their arches add the magic of their circular forms to the spirit of the place. Another artist, another metal. Vincent Barré, for his part, has designed oblong shafts crossing the space, a kind of anonymous, impenetrable sign in this place steeped in history and the marks of art, speaking to us of the transience of things and our passage through this world. Here, as in the Gardens of Bomarzo, everything is open to interpretation.
But let's leave the Historic Park and head for other extravagances, other visions of nature. Let's enter worlds bursting with gardens, flowers, leaves, earth and even pollen. In the upper galleries of the Château, we'll discover the subtly playful atmosphere of painter Vincent Bioulès, with some forty paintings on nature and landscape, radiating an exceptional science of colour and light. A few rooms away awaits Pascal Oudet's fabulous Laissez entrer le soleil, which transforms the material of an oak tree into lace and tells its intimate story.
As if in counterpoint to this effervescence of forms, Kôichi Kurita's minimalist installation inhabits the Tour de Diane. Fascinating earth-filled flasks are lined up there, offering part of the precious library of Earth, a concrete utopia that the artist has been building up over the last 20 years.
Back at the Château, Pascale Marthine Tayou's hanging chandeliers await visitors in the Grange aux abeilles. The magnificence of nature hybridized with the waste materials of humanity.
In the galleries of the Cour Agnès Varda, the marvellous gardens of Damien Cabanes come into view. The result of a residency at the Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire, these paintings on paper have the freshness of an instant and the depth of a gesture steeped in the history of art.
The Cour de la Ferme is home to Mundo Perdido, three gilded bronze architectures by Anne and Patrick Poirier, while the artist duo dress the Asinerie in paintings, photographs on porcelain and rugs with deliberate messages: "Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed", reads one of them. Upstairs, Karine Bonneval's imaginary meadow rehabilitates the beauty of pollen, whose mission is to transmit life. By changing the way we look at things, art really does have the power to transform the world.

Chantal Colleu-Dumond
Exhibition curator
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Planting yourself and listening to the earth, with Céline Basset and Karine Bonneval, as part of the Se planter exhibition.

We often ignore what goes on beneath our feet, yet the soil is the origin of life on earth. Céline Basset is the founder of the Blue soil farm, which campaigns to restore the soil's microbiota by working closely with farmers on soil quality. In the park, we'll be planting ourselves in the soil in a sensory experience using mats, listening live to the activity of the earth. Céline will be taking us through a microscope and introducing us to soil micro-organisms.

Children, parents and grandparents are invited to discover the exhibitions at the Orangerie through an interactive tour followed by a workshop. A friendly intergenerational experience based around contemporary art.

Meeting point at the orangery - from 6 years old

Bookings required by email: chamarande@cd-essonne.fr

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SIANA and the Domaine départemental de Chamarande are presenting a monographic exhibition by Karine Bonneval, Se planter - Récolter le soleil et cultiver la pluie*, conceived as a journey through the Domaine de Chamarande, echoing the artist's creations.

Based in Évry, the SIANA association sees itself as an artistic laboratory and resource centre for digital and hybrid cultures in Essonne and the southern Paris region. Its aim is to take a simpler, more concrete approach to the 21st century in the multiple territories of Essonne, by exploring the new ethics at work.

Curator: Julie Sicault Maillé and Natacha Duviquet

* In the words of Hervé Covès

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Pro Artibus and The Archipelago Centre Korpoström invite you to the event Do Trees Dream of CO2?, Mother Earth’s Inner Organs and other stories by Maria Ångerman, the current artist in the Pro Artibus Korpo Archipelago Residency.

For a special gathering Maria Ångerman has invited artists whose practices consider more-than-human communities from diverse perspectives. The invited artists are the collective Do Trees Dream of CO2 (Per Hüttner & Karine Bonneval) and Ana Bravo Pèrez.

The evenings consists of artist talks and presentations of projects. The event is held in English with free admission and there will be a break with light refreshments. Free event. Due to a limited number of seats, please register your participation by e-mail info(a)skargardscentrum.fi

Time: Wednesday, October 18th, 2023 16:30-20:00
Place: The Archipelago Centre Korpoström
Korpoströmsvägen 832, 21720 Korpoström
The Archipelago Centre Korpoström is located on the island of Korpo in the Turku archipelago, approx. 2 hours by car or tour bus from the center of Turku.

Pro Artibus et le Centre de l'archipel de Korpoström vous invitent à l'événement Do Trees Dream of CO2, Mother Earth's Inner Organs and other stories de Maria Ångerman, l'artiste actuellement en résidence à Pro Artibus Korpo Archipelago.

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Do Trees Dream of CO?
at 18:00 on 13 October 2023
BIOART Society, SOLU Space, Panimokatu 1 (3rd floor), Helsinki

Researchers have learned that plants rest at night, in similar way that humans and animals do. But do they also dream? What is their nocturnal existence like? Which similarities and differences can we find between them and us?

Do Trees Dream of CO? is a Franco-Swedish collective, which will present their work at SOLU Space on 13th October 2023. The collective has been developing technology and artistic expressions to facilitate interspecies dialogues between humans and trees for two years. The event offers an opportunity for the audience to get a glimpse of the technical, scientific and artistic developments that the projects has made to date. The visitors joining for the evening are also invited to participate in a practical demonstration where they can try to dialogue with a tree.

Humans have traditionally ignored plants’ ability to solve problems. Biology has recently acquired important knowledge about plants and their perception and problem solving skills. We gradually learn more about how plants react when the surroundings world changes and what they do in order to enhance their chances of survival. Mankind has also been relatively blind to many of the similarities that we share with the vegetal life around us. But since we share the same planet and the same evolutionary past, we also share a lot of biochemistry. In biology much attention has recently been given to the agency of plants – how they sense the world and deal with changes in their environment. In Do Trees Dream of CO?, artists and researchers investigate what art can learn from this new and exciting research and how it can be used to create new and visionary art.

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Exhibition from 16 September to 19 November, opening on 16 September at 6pm.

Berkanan is the proto-Germanic rune for Birch.

The first tree in the Celtic calendar, the birch symbolises birth and renewal. It is the tree that lights up the night, the perfect symbol of the balance between the different forces that oppose each other to make life possible. Its sap and buds can be eaten, and its bark and twigs are used in various crafts around the world. However, when we think of birch today, the first thing we often think of is its pollen, which is among the most allergenic. "Berkanan" is a project co-constructed with Nicolas Visez, an air chemist at LASIRE, the University of Lille, who studies the atmospheric ageing of allergenic anemophilous (wind-borne) pollen grains. Working with him, the artist has designed rooms and workshops to bring the birch back into the family.

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Welcome to meet Per Hüttner and Karine Bonneval, two artists who create a performance where we get a unique opportunity to experience the inner life of trees.

18.30 - 20.00 People and trees in interaction. Limited number of seats
21.00 - 22.00 Brain concert in trance with Per Hüttner and Jonas Engman.

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The Grantham Foundation for Art and the Environment's 2023 Creation Prize has been awarded to Karine Bonneval, along with a one-month residency at the Foundation.

French artist Karine Bonneval has exhibited her work in France, Germany, USA, Argentina, and Sri Lanka. The recipient of many grants and international residencies, she has collaborated in particular with the Soil & Crop Sciences and Bioacoustics departments of Cornell University, USA.

The work that she will carry out at the Grantham Foundation will seek to answer several questions related to soil ecology. What is happening beneath our feet? What does soil tell us about our relationship to the earth? How can we rebuild ties with this complete universe about which we know very little and which escapes our perception? Using the tools of bioacoustics and chromatography, a technique similar to photographic processing, Bonneval intends to paint a visual and sonic picture of the land of the Grantham Foundation and its surroundings.

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1 and 2 July at Espace Cardin, 1 avenue Gabriel, Paris 8

At a time of climate disruption, the "Symbiose(s)" weekend organised by the arts & sciences Chair, in partnership with the Théâtre de la Ville, will explore our interdependence with living things, matter and technologies. Two days of exhibitions, performances and lectures to present the creations born of an intensive week of research and creation during the Chaire arts & sciences summer school on the campus of the Institut polytechnique de Paris.
In a DIY spirit, some thirty participants - artists, designers, scientists and students - gathered in 7 interdisciplinary Labs to devise a sensitive dialogue at the crossroads of the arts and sciences.
Phytomorphism workshop in collaboration with Guillaume Hutzler, at the invitation of SIANA.

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On 22 June 2023, an interdisciplinary day for the general public will be held in the greenhouse on the Orsay campus (Université Paris Saclay, Bât 365). Make your choice of activities. In the afternoon, there will be art/ecology/philosophy and gardening workshops. In the evening, you can listen to botanical texts. Karen Houle, a Canadian poet-philosopher and market gardener, will be in attendance. An exhibition by artist Karine Bonneval will also be on show all day.

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