Visit of the reconstitution of the Atelier of Pierre Graille

Name: Visita a la reconstrucción del Taller de Pierre Graille
Start: 2022-09-17T09:30:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T17:30:00+02:00
Location: Château de La Tour d'Aigues

Presentation of the work and the reconstruction of the Atelier of Pierre Graille

17 i 18 septiembre 2022Passed

@pareaproduction @Julia D. Nuccio & Océane Breton @ChâteaudeLTA

Modest postal worker at Grambois, santonnier, potter, wood sculptor, painter, theatre man Pierre Graille (1915-2014) was a man of many facets. Pierre Graille represented in santon the men and women of his village, the people dear to his heart, artists or political personalities.
"Telling a story is one thing, the hardest thing is to make this piece of clay something that thinks."

About the location

Château de La Tour d'Aigues

Château de La Tour d'Aigues 84240 La Tour-d'Aigues

Vaucluse
Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

The castle of La Tour d'Aigues in Vaucluse, owned by the General Council, houses since 1987, a museum of earthenware. On the occasion of the restoration work of the castle, carried out by the General Council of Vaucluse, and the archaeological excavations carried out from 1976 to 1980, an important set of ceramics, glassware, pavement tiles was brought to light. La Tour d'Aigues was a pottery production centre during the second half of the 18th century thanks to» Jean-Baptiste-Jérôme BRUNY (1724-1795), owner of the castle. This descendant of a family of the great Marseilles bourgeoisie was a scholar, a lover of natural history, medicine, agronomy and a great lover of art. His entrepreneurial spirit, his curiosity, his taste for applied research led him to try various experiments in the most varied fields: thus he created a pottery in a bastide next to the castle, some of whose productions are in the museum. He surrounded himself with artists, researched engravings that could serve as m