Free visit of the park of the House Elsa Triolet-Aragon and its temporary exhibition

Name: Free visit of the park of the House Elsa Triolet-Aragon and its temporary exhibition
Start: 2022-09-17T14:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Maison Elsa Triolet - Aragon

Visit the park of the Maison Elsa Triolet-Aragon: a museum of contemporary open-air sculptures.

17 and 18 September 2022Passed

Maison Elsa Triolet-Aragon

Free visit of the park of the House Elsa Triolet-Aragon and its temporary exhibition.
Visit the park of the Moulin de Villeneuve: thirty contemporary works have transformed the latter into an open-air museum on 6 hectares. The sculptures interact with each other, playing with the landscape and architecture of the places.
Mark Brusse, Jef Aerosol, Jean-Pierre Rives, Jean Campa, Pierre Marie Lejeune, Fabrice Brunet, Speedy Graphito, ...
Also visit the temporary exhibition of the artist Claude Viallat.

About the location

Maison Elsa Triolet - Aragon

Moulin de Villeneuve - Rue de la Villeneuve 78730 Saint-Arnoult-en-Yvelines

Yvelines
Île-de-France

Located in the south of the Yvelines, the Moulin de Villeneuve takes you into the privacy of Elsa Triolet and Aragon. He was sometimes the setting and source of inspiration for their writings. A walk, through the meadows, woods and “tears” that follow each other, allows the visitor to discover or rediscover two great figures of our intellectual life. It was in 1951 that Aragon decided to offer Elsa the Russian, the uprooted, the foreigner, “this little piece of land of France”. It is a mill established there at the beginning of the thirteenth century. Vestiges of the milling activity remain: the cage of the wheel is at the heart of the large salon, itself backed by the reach. In the park of nearly six hectares, which dominates the white stone of their tomb, winds the Rémarde. It is a place of writing. It was here that some of the most beautiful pages of French literature were written. For your pleasure, current painters, sculptors, poets and novelists continue to meet there. It is a pl