Exhibition "Voix d'artistes" in partnership with the Centre Pompidou

Name: Exposition "Voix d'artistes" en partenariat avec le centre Pompidou
Start: 2022-09-17T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Abbaye de Saint-Riquier - Centre culturel départemental

In partnership with the Centre Pompidou, "Voix d'artistes" is an exhibition on the themes of gesture at work, and voice as a vector of transmission

17 et 18 septembre 2022Passé

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This exhibition was conducted by 4th grade students in CHAAP class of the Alfred Manessier College in Flixecourt. During a week-long residency at the Pompidou Centre in Paris, they were able to discover the works of the museum, professionals from the cultural world and above all to participate in the selection of the works of the exhibition.This educational project allowed the students to put themselves in the shoes of true curators of exhibition.
Thus, the students invite you to discover the selected works and all the poetry they wanted to discover by choosing 6 video works of contemporary art: John Baldessari - Yoko Ono - Karel Appel - Pierrick Sorin - Martha Rosler - Ben.
Your last chance to discover this exhibition which will close on Sunday 18 September:

À propos du lieu

Abbaye de Saint-Riquier - Centre culturel départemental

Place de l'église 80135 SAINT-RIQUIER

Somme
Hauts-de-France

On the slopes of the Somme Valley stands a majestic abbey of nearly 1400 years of history. It takes its name from an inhabitant of the vicus of Centule (the city with a hundred towers, today called Saint-Riquier) converted to the Christian religion, which evangelized the Ponthieu and was made holy at his death in 645\.
The monastery founded in the seventh century became a royal abbey in 632 by the protection granted to it by King Dagobert I. His importance was such that in 790 Charlemagne placed at his head one of the highest figures of his court, Angilbert, his adviser. Major abbey of the Carolingian world, it is destroyed in 881 by the invasion of the Normans. In total it will suffer of seventeen destructions. The eclectic architecture of the monument testifies to this turbulent past.
During the French Revolution, the old conventual buildings were sold as national property. Initially used as a quarry of stones, they will then receive many assignments, military (hospitals during the t