Voyage d’hiver - The groves of Versailles

Voyage d’hiver - The groves of Versailles
22.10.2017 - 07.01.2018

On the occasion of « Voyage d’hiver », Versailles opens its gardens to seventeen artists who are to create a poetic walk through its groves. The path was imagined as a stroll in that open-air museum, starting when October is burnishing the vegetation and ending in the pale brightness of the winter. It will be punctuated by seventeen sights, seventeen works which dialog with the creation of André Le Nôtre.

For its 10th edition, the contemporary art exhibition has been made together with the Palais de Tokyo. The curatorship, composed of Jean de Loisy, Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel, Yoann Gourmel and Alfred Pacquement, invites the visitors to this journey from the 22nd of October to the 7th of January, every day Tuesday to Sunday, from 10am till nightfall.

artists and works:
1 MARGUERITE HUMEAU
RIDDLES (Sphinx Otto Protecting
Earth from Humankind)
Triumphal Arch Grove
2 DAVID ALTMEJD
• LE SOUFFLE
• L’OEIL
Three Fountains Grove
3 JOHN GIORNO
• WE GAVE A PARTY FOR THE GODS
AND THE GODS ALL CAME
• LET IT COME LET IT GO
Apollo’s Baths Grove
4 DOMINIQUE PETITGAND
TOUT EST BOULEVERSÉ
Dauphin’s Grove
5 MARK MANDERS
DRY CLAY HEAD
Star Grove
6 JEAN-MARIE APPRIOU
HIVER, AUTOMNE, PRINTEMPS, ÉTÉ
Obelisk Grove
7 CAMERON JAMIE
9 SCULPTURES DE LA SÉRIE SPINE
STATION
Enceladus Grove
8 HICHAM BERRADA
• MATRICE MINÉRALE
• ÉQUILIBRE SATURÉ
Grove of the Domes
9 UGO RONDINONE
THE SUN
Apollo’s Fountain
10 SHEILA HICKS
PROSERPINE EN CHRYSALIDE
Colonnade Grove
11 TOMÁS SARACENO
CLOUD CITIES :
DU SOL AU SOLEIL
King’s Garden
12 ANITA MOLINERO
FLORAISONS POUR NOLLOPA
Mirror Pool
13 OLIVER BEER
ACCORD /TACET
Girandole Grove
14 LOUISE SARTOR
“C’EST ESTRE FOU QUE
N’AIMER RIEN”
Labyrinth Walk
15 RICK OWENS
UNTITLED
Queen’s Grove
16 STÉPHANE THIDET
BRUIT BLANC
Ballroom Grove
17 CÉCILE MINARD
GRENOUILLES EN GRANDS
MANTEAUX
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