Installation/ exhibition: "The Resurgence of Saint-Thivisiau"

Name: Installation/ exhibition: "The Resurgence of Saint-Thivisiau"
Start: 2022-09-17T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T17:00:00+02:00
Location: Fontaine de Saint-Thivisiau

The Saint-Thivisiau fountain hosts a sculpted and commented production, proposed by artist Daniel Tihay: «La Résurgence de Saint-Thivisiau».

17 and 18 September 2022Passed

Conditions

Daniel Tihay welcomes you on site all weekend from 10am to 5pm. Installation visible until Sunday, November 6.

In dialogue with history, architecture and the name of the fountain-wash-house, the figures engraved on the pediment of the fountain come alive and come out of the Kersanton stone to enter a procession led by Saint-Thivisiau.
The twelve characters of wood, metal and glass invest all the basins of the wash house, seeming to walk on the water. Each is assigned specific symbols, materials and colours, echoing the different beliefs attached to them.

About the location

Fontaine de Saint-Thivisiau

rue Saint-Thivisiau, 29400, Landivisiau

Finistère
Bretagne

The origin of this fountain dates back to the Iron Age (between 750 and 50 B.C. AD). Archaeological excavations carried out in 1985 revealed on the site the existence of a lec'h, a truncated stele that, in ancient times, signalled the presence of a sacred place. This fountain was therefore probably votive during prehistory. The territory of Landivisiau was then the scene of a human occupation and it had taken place around the water point that already constituted this source. The lec'h found during the excavations is composed of two parts each measuring 70 cm high, which gives it in its complete form a height of about 3 meters. On the sections, we can still notice the grooves and the locations of the corners that were used for cutting. The lec'h is always visible on the site of the fountain. With the appearance of Christianity, this fountain became that of Saint Thivisiau, a monk who, in the 5th century, came to settle on these lands and founded a monastery, Lann en breton, hence the or