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16 - 18 September 2022Passed
September 2022
Friday 16
10:30 - 12:30
14:00 - 19:00
Saturday 17
10:30 - 12:30
14:00 - 19:00
Sunday 18
10:30 - 12:30
14:00 - 19:00

Château de Flamanville

rue du château, 50340 Flamanville
  • Manche
  • Normandie

Exhibition Dahlias, Et cætera

Exhibition associating four photographers gathered around the flower in echo to the exceptional Dahlia Conservatory Garden in the park of the Flamanville castle.
16 - 18 September 2022Passed
Marion Maimon, 2021

Head to Flamanville Castle to discover its magnificent park, its ponds, the Dahlias garden and its cultural activities. Flamanville has the largest collection of dahlias in Europe, with more than 1000 varieties. Taking as its starting point the territory of the garden, the Centre photographique Rouen Normandie has designed an exhibition associating four photographers gathered around the flower. The invitation was first extended to Marion Maimon, a French photographer, to document the different varieties present in the conservatory garden during the last flowering in autumn 2021. In residence in Flamanville, she walked through the garden and created a gallery of portraits of dahlias, «posing» in front of the landscape elements of the coast: sky, water, rock. She is joined here by three photographers who have each recently developed a personal work on the flower. The Dutch photographer Popel Coumou deploys scholarly architectures of colored papers and modelling clay flowers oscillating between naiveté and precision. Hubert Crabières, French photographer, portrait the artificial flower, between pretentious realism and fantasy temptation when Jason Evans, English photographer, actor of the community garden The Garden Gate Project located in Margate (Kent), made of still life and floral composition, the place of social bond. Punctuating these contemporary works, a selection of amateur films from the collections of Normandy Images, evokes the manufacture and practice of Norman flowering corsos.

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Exposition
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About the location

Château de Flamanville
rue du château, 50340 Flamanville
  • Manche
  • Normandie
The Castle of Flamanville dates mainly from the seventeenth century, but the existence of a vast seigneurial property is attested from the fourteenth century.
Built in grey granite extracted from the nearby cliff between 1654 and 1658 by Hervé Basan, this owner wishes a residence worthy of his title of marquis recently awarded by Louis XIV.
Château Park The Château de Flamanville is surrounded by a park of about twenty hectares enriched with woods, ponds and a magnificent octagonal tower. Throughout the year, enjoy a park of about twenty hectares offering many varieties of flowers, plants and trees. At the edge of the ponds, the giant Gunnéras from Chile and the Trachycarpus Fortunei palms give a very North-Cotentine exotic touch.
The castle park opens its doors free of charge throughout the year. Prefer the flowering period from late August to September to enjoy a sumptuous show in the dahlias garden.
Dahlias Garden The park is also home to the wonderful dahlias garden, which brings t
Tags
Monument historique, Château, hôtel urbain, palais, manoir, Espace naturel, parc, jardin, Musée, salle d'exposition
Access
Parking behind the castle park
© Mairie de Flamanville