Stone cutting workshops with the Verrecchia Endowment Fund

Name: Ateliers taille de pierre avec le Fonds de dotation Verrecchia
Start: 2022-09-17T11:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-17T17:00:00+02:00
Location: Espace Richaud - Ancien hôpital royal

Led by an artist and a stonemason, three sessions of practice workshops are offered to the public, on reservation.

Samedi 17 septembre 2022, 11h00, 14h30, 16h00Passé

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The Verrecchia Endowment Fund is a philanthropic entity working for the promotion of trades and arts around the cutting stone.
As part of JEP2022, and its establishment at the Château de la Maye, the fund offers practice workshops led by resident artists and stonemasons.
The workshops allow a first approach to cutting and engraving on stone, thanks to playful exercises around a letter, a drawing or a word.
Each workshop allows for a dual creative and technical approach. They are limited to 10 people for optimal support. Children may be accompanied by their parents. ---
As part of its program of artistic residencies at the Château de la Maye, the Verrecchia Endowment Fund presents from September 17 to October 1 the works carried out by the Laureates of its 2022 Material(s) Grant around stone, with a wide variety of techniques and practices.
The public is invited to discover them in the exhibition STATE(s) of MATIÈRE, and to learn about stone cutting during the workshops offered on Saturday 17 September at the Richaud space in Versailles.

À propos du lieu

Espace Richaud - Ancien hôpital royal

78 boulevard de la Reine 78000 Versailles

Yvelines
Île-de-France

Begun in 1781 under the direction of architect Charles-François Darnaudin, the construction of the Royal Hospital of Versailles lasted for nearly 80 years, and was not completed until 1859\. After the transfer of hospital activities to the Mignot site in 1981, Richaud would experience long years of abandonment, resulting in rapid degradation and even destruction caused by three soothing fires, including the latest one in 2009\. The safeguarding and rehabilitation of the site took place over a period of four years and allowed the redevelopment of a major urban area of Versailles, located between the Versailles Rive-Droite station and the Notre-Dame district.