EXHIBITIONS at the medieval
Castle (the Rotonde) :
 April
1st to April 28th : Florie Boissy « 36 views of the Mont
Ventoux »
This exhibition presents a series of ink washes which are typical
of my work, the theme being the Mont Ventoux. The title is a reference
to the work of Hokusaï (36 views of Mount Fuji).
Inspired by medieval illuminations and Japanese engravings, I
am attempting a synthesis of these two techniques to create dreamlike,
nostalgic landscapes, often simplified, using contrasting colours.
The Ventoux I depict no longer exists. I wanted to show a wild
mountain, without the presence of man, as it surely used to be
in prehistory. It is an imagined, dreamed Ventoux.
This exhibition is included in the price of entry to the Castle.
April 30th to 21st May : L’Art de Mai Theme
for 2011 « Between earth and sky » (in partnership
with the Conseil Général)
Between Earth and Sky, Art turns, spins and flies up from
the Rotonde to the skies above Simiane … a celebration of
Art de Mai with many materials, colours, shapes and patterns.
A collective Exhibition by Simiane artists :
Pascale David, ceramics
Marie-Laure couet-Delinchant, painting
Georges Derie, painting, sculpture
Françoise Dubouchet, painting
Christi La Liberté, photographs
Roger & Gisèle Legrand, photographs
Stéphanie Mutrux, painting
Isabelle Oudot, painting
Maxime Equestri, sculpture
Nicole Baroin, painting
Invited artists :
Anne Weulersse (Mane), painting
Laurence Marty (Banon), painting
Preview : Saturday 30th April at 7 p.m.
This exhibition is included in the price of entry to the Castle.
1st July to 31st July : Claudine Meyer : Sculpture
(in partnership with La Maison de Brian)
Take a length of wire, twist it, roll it and give it life…
woven metal – calligraphy – gestures captured midway
during movement – hanging curves – the play of light
& shade – gradually the material blurs and softens to
reveal essentials…
Preview : July 1st at 6 p.m.
This exhibition is included in the price of entry to the Castle.
August
2nd to August 31st : Two exhibitions linked to the Early Music
Festival « Les Riches Heures Musicales »
Isabelle Barruol « Patterns in Plants »
Graduate of the Montpellier School of Architecture in 1987, Isabelle
Barruol has concentrated on the plastic arts since 1998. She lives
and works in Toulouse.
Her main area of experimentation is the world of plants. Her work
in this area includes the series « Impressions and Interlacings
», studies in identity and memory.
In the Rotonde she will show a group of prints of the bark of
trees evoking dreamlike glades. The fading colours and declining
light evoke the passing of time, the duration of a day, with the
twelve romanesque niches in the Rotonde standing for the hours
on the clockface.
Anne-Marie Berthon and Jeanne-Marie Noël «
Photographic Archives of the Simiane Festival »
Preview : August 1st at 6 p.m.
These exhibitions are included in the price of entry to the Castle.
September 2nd to October 2nd : Vincent Honnoré
Paintings
From early childhood Vincent Honnoré has practised drawing
and graphics, later making these his profession. With the advent
of computers in this field, Vincent Honnoré preferred to
change direction away from recent developments in order to continue
drawing and painting as he has always done with his pencils and
brushes.
Through private exhibitions and public competitions, he rapidly
became known in Marseilles, Provence and Corsica. Today his success
enables him to devote himself wholly to his art. His paintings
can be seen in galeries in Provence and Corsica as well as in
different places in France and other countries.
His very personal style free of current trends, his way of drawing
and his unusual colour palette mean that his paintings are distinctly
recognizable.
His motto : « Do nothing as others do and stay free of outside
influence ».
This exhibition is included in the price of entry to the Castle.
October 5th to November 11th : « Simiane-la-Rotonde
in Postcards »
Following « Portraits of Simianais » in 2010, we
offer visitors another journey into the past with this exhibition
of old postcards of our village.
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