September 2025

Saturday 20
- 11:00 - 12:00
- 15:00 - 16:00
Sunday 21
- 11:00 - 12:00
- 15:00 - 16:00

Village d'Art Préludien de Chomo

24 rue de Paris Forêt 77760 Achères-la-Forêt

Seine-et-Marne

Île-de-France

Guided tour

Name: Guided tour
Start: 2025-09-20T11:00:00+02:00
End: 2025-09-21T16:00:00+02:00
Location: Village d'Art Préludien de Chomo

20 and 21 September

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reduced rate for everyone: 5 euros for a guided tour

Amis de Chomo

In 1960, Chomo decided to leave Paris permanently and settled alone in Achères-la-Forêt. He named his corner of the forest "Village of Preludian Art".
Ecologist before his time, bee keeper, he will own up to twenty hives; he works with wood (his 'burnt woods'), stone, and plastic materials.
Abandoning bronze, terracotta and marble, Chomo chooses "materials that breathe". Sheet metal, wood, plastic, glass or concrete are sources of permanent discoveries. The sculptor continues his series of burnt woods. He also models gratings that he paints or inlays with molten plastic and various materials. He diverts children’s toys. He uses cellular concrete: "I carve it like writing a poem," he explains to his visitors.
Chomo tackles architecture and stained glass art: he builds three buildings of wood, wire mesh and bottles, which will be used to house his many works. The first is called "Sanctuary of the burnt woods"; the second, "The Church of the Poor", is embellished with a spectacular rose made with colored bottles and the last, "The Refuge", covered with car hoods.
Guided tours will be provided by the association’s mediators.

September 2025

Saturday 20
- 11:00 - 12:00
- 15:00 - 16:00
Sunday 21
- 11:00 - 12:00
- 15:00 - 16:00

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Village d'Art Préludien de Chomo

24 rue de Paris Forêt 77760 Achères-la-Forêt

Seine-et-Marne

Île-de-France

The Village d'Art Préludien is the domain of the artist Roger Chomeaux dit Chomo (1907-1999), where he lived and created alone, for more than 40 years. It consists of its own house and three spontaneous architectures: the Refuge, the Church of the Poor, and the Sanctuary of the Burnt Woods. The Association of Friends of Chomo was created with the aim of preserving these unclassifiable works and making them known to the public.

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