Galerie du vitrail - Exhibition "Chartres en vitrail" 2016
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Date : 2016
Exhibition "CHARTRES EN VITRAIL" 15 June - 15 October 2016 at La Galerie du Vitrail in Chartres
15 artists are invited by La Galerie du Vitrail
To present a stained-glass window on the theme of Chartres
Pierre Carron, Valerie Gaugeac, Tetsuo Harada, Nathalie Lefevre Genevieve de Marcellus, Jean-Luc Parant, Joedane Ribaud Beatrice Roche-Gardies, Isabelle Rosenberg, Alice Sancey, Didier Sancey, Agnieszka Sekita-Lefèvre, Luc Thieulin, Antoine Vincent, Leslie Xuereb.
Coming from different backgrounds, these painters, sculptors, visual artists or writers, living or having Chartres euréliennes ties reflected at the request of Natalie Zins Loire, a work on the theme of Chartres. They then worked with Jacques, Bruno and Hervé Loire, glassmakers in Lèves, to translate their project with the glass material.
The Loire workshop at their disposal their different expertise: colored glass set with enhanced lead or not grisaille glass tiles set with resin, fused glass, thermoformed glasses ... The artists, some of whom had never approached The stained glass, chose the technique best suited to their project.
Each one, with his artistic sensibility, proposes his vision of Chartres. The compositions, often figurative, evoke the city through its essential items such as the cathedral, light, scent, but also the Beauce. Others, in a more symbolic or abstract way, evoke their attachment to Chartres.
Explosion of colors or sober colors, variety of styles and expressions, technical prowess, these windows reflect the dynamism of the contemporary art of stained glass.
These works, intended for amateurs or collectors, can take place in dwellings or public spaces.
It is in 1976 that Micheline Loire opened at the foot of the cathedral of Chartres, La Galerie du Vitrail, intended to promote the art of stained glass.
Each summer an exhibition of stained glass dedicated to young people or new talents, a technique or a theme is presented. In 1996, to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Gallery, the exhibition "Chartres en Vitrail" presented stained glass windows made by master glass-makers and artists on the theme of Chartres.
In this year 2016, for the 40 years of the Gallery, Natalie Zins Loire has chosen to renew this event by appealing to 15 Euréliens artists.
