Quartet + Avignon
The Cloître Saint-Louis, the Chapelle Saint-Michel, the Manutention, the Célestins church and the Cordeliers church: 5 places that the City opens free of charge to local artists and the public, to bring contemporary art and heritage together.
The objective
Allow cultural associations involved in the visual, digital, and contemporary arts to benefit from five venues made available by the City to stage an exhibition or performance. The aim is to enable all forms of artistic expression to be expressed and for all audiences to access these expressions.
Five emblematic heritage sites in the city to serve as a showcase for current creations
– For “classic” exhibitions (picture rails, wall hangings, panels, mobile supports, grids):
The Saint-Louis cloister
Handling
– For atypical exhibitions as well as artistic or digital performances (sound and light, video mapping, happenings, ephemeral art, culinary, etc.):
Saint-Michel chapel
The Celestine Church
The Cordeliers Church
Programming:
Handling:
From May 01st to 15th: Spoon & Yannu' “Echoes of the Unusual”
“Echoes of the Unusual” is an invitation to explore the beauty of memory and creativity, through the prism of an artistic collaboration between visual artist Spoon and illustrator Yannu'.
Let yourself be carried away by this fusion of visual arts and storytelling, and discover the evocative power of forgotten objects and dreamlike images in this intimate cabinet of curiosities created by 4 hands.
This immersive experience features a collection of intriguing works that combine drawing and writing, embroidery, collage and sculpture, creating a rich and poetic visual dialogue, bordering on the strange and the mysterious.
From 10 a.m. to 18 p.m., opening on May 2 at 19 p.m.
From May 21 to June 3: Bruno Verdet “ECCE HOMO”
After exhibiting his recent paintings at the Figuier Pourpre-Maison de la Poésie in Avignon in April 2024, Bruno Verdet is presenting a large sample of his drawings from recent years at La Manutention.
Some are purely humorous, depicting characters grappling with an absurdity that they have most often created themselves due to excess confidence or credulity.
Other drawings place the subject in front of the tragedy of recent history or history in progress. The slight shift that the drawing allows with the images that flood our screens allows us to see what, sometimes, we can no longer bear to look at.
Whether or not they sport a skull, the characters in these drawings seem to place us ironically face to face with the invariants of our humanity: sex, money, power and violence; we could almost hear them cry out: "Ecce Homo"!
"There is only one resource with death, to make art before it." (René Char)
Open every day from 11:00 a.m. to 19:00 p.m.
Opening on May 21, 2025 between 17:30 p.m. and 20:00 p.m.
Saint Michael Chapel:
From May 1st to 15th: Jean Claude Germain “When?”
"When will we be faced with the evidence that it is no longer possible to hope?
For a time there will still be society, there will be people, faces, behaviors,
of cruelty and domination. History will continue; I believe we will not change. In my exhibition, I am showing the public drawings and paintings that speak of people without renown and who no longer have control over anything. I evoke their fragility, but not only that. They too can live, have fun, dress up, imagine themselves as different. I am not interested in plastic chiaroscuro, which I do not practice but which I respect. What I paint is placed "facing the day", which allows for reciprocal friendship between the colors.
On this subject I work mainly with primary, warm colours, because they can carry and translate love, passions and the violence of the world.
I don't sell; which allows me to be a free painter! Free from salons, collectors, "the market"... In short, free not to please; because giving the visitor what he wants in the hope of selling is pretty much the opposite of creation (My works are cut off from any reference to money.)
I have a pension to live on, and it will be my heirs who will decide. I have been painting since the early sixties. Consistently, my attention lingers on a set of realities that disturb me. The view I carry is an opinion that is expressed through my painting. For me, a painting is 50% subject and 50% execution.
On the other hand, the art of portraiture means a lot to me. I am first and foremost a portraitist. What can be found in a human face is infinite.
Every day from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. and from 14 p.m. to 18 p.m.
Allow cultural associations involved in the visual, digital, and contemporary arts to benefit from five venues made available by the City to stage an exhibition or performance. The aim is to enable all forms of artistic expression to be expressed and for all audiences to access these expressions.
Five emblematic heritage sites in the city to serve as a showcase for current creations
– For “classic” exhibitions (picture rails, wall hangings, panels, mobile supports, grids):
The Saint-Louis cloister
Handling
– For atypical exhibitions as well as artistic or digital performances (sound and light, video mapping, happenings, ephemeral art, culinary, etc.):
Saint-Michel chapel
The Celestine Church
The Cordeliers Church
Programming:
Handling:
From May 01st to 15th: Spoon & Yannu' “Echoes of the Unusual”
“Echoes of the Unusual” is an invitation to explore the beauty of memory and creativity, through the prism of an artistic collaboration between visual artist Spoon and illustrator Yannu'.
Let yourself be carried away by this fusion of visual arts and storytelling, and discover the evocative power of forgotten objects and dreamlike images in this intimate cabinet of curiosities created by 4 hands.
This immersive experience features a collection of intriguing works that combine drawing and writing, embroidery, collage and sculpture, creating a rich and poetic visual dialogue, bordering on the strange and the mysterious.
From 10 a.m. to 18 p.m., opening on May 2 at 19 p.m.
From May 21 to June 3: Bruno Verdet “ECCE HOMO”
After exhibiting his recent paintings at the Figuier Pourpre-Maison de la Poésie in Avignon in April 2024, Bruno Verdet is presenting a large sample of his drawings from recent years at La Manutention.
Some are purely humorous, depicting characters grappling with an absurdity that they have most often created themselves due to excess confidence or credulity.
Other drawings place the subject in front of the tragedy of recent history or history in progress. The slight shift that the drawing allows with the images that flood our screens allows us to see what, sometimes, we can no longer bear to look at.
Whether or not they sport a skull, the characters in these drawings seem to place us ironically face to face with the invariants of our humanity: sex, money, power and violence; we could almost hear them cry out: "Ecce Homo"!
"There is only one resource with death, to make art before it." (René Char)
Open every day from 11:00 a.m. to 19:00 p.m.
Opening on May 21, 2025 between 17:30 p.m. and 20:00 p.m.
Saint Michael Chapel:
From May 1st to 15th: Jean Claude Germain “When?”
"When will we be faced with the evidence that it is no longer possible to hope?
For a time there will still be society, there will be people, faces, behaviors,
of cruelty and domination. History will continue; I believe we will not change. In my exhibition, I am showing the public drawings and paintings that speak of people without renown and who no longer have control over anything. I evoke their fragility, but not only that. They too can live, have fun, dress up, imagine themselves as different. I am not interested in plastic chiaroscuro, which I do not practice but which I respect. What I paint is placed "facing the day", which allows for reciprocal friendship between the colors.
On this subject I work mainly with primary, warm colours, because they can carry and translate love, passions and the violence of the world.
I don't sell; which allows me to be a free painter! Free from salons, collectors, "the market"... In short, free not to please; because giving the visitor what he wants in the hope of selling is pretty much the opposite of creation (My works are cut off from any reference to money.)
I have a pension to live on, and it will be my heirs who will decide. I have been painting since the early sixties. Consistently, my attention lingers on a set of realities that disturb me. The view I carry is an opinion that is expressed through my painting. For me, a painting is 50% subject and 50% execution.
On the other hand, the art of portraiture means a lot to me. I am first and foremost a portraitist. What can be found in a human face is infinite.
Every day from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. and from 14 p.m. to 18 p.m.
Opening
| Opening hours from January 01 to December 31, 2025 | |
|---|---|
| Monday | Open |
| Tuesday | Open |
| Wednesday | Open |
| Thursday | Open |
| Friday | Open |
| Open on Saturday | Open |
| Sunday | Open |
Opening depending on the exhibitions – See detailed program
Pricing
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