«UCO opens its reserves»: Visit of the tapestries of La Pintière

Name: «UCO opens its reserves»: Visit of the tapestries of La Pintière
Start: 2022-09-17T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-17T16:00:00+02:00
Location: Université Catholique de l'Ouest

This monumental work is the artist’s re-reading of his deportation as a resistance fighter in the camps of Buchenwald and Dora in the light of the Apocalypse.

Saturday 17 September 2022, 10:00, 15:00Passed

Conditions

Subject to availability | Reception in the lobby of the Jeanneteau building (entrance via 6 rue Merlet de la Boulaye)

This year, during the European Heritage Days, «UCO opens its reserves», the opportunity to discover the tapestry cycle of La Pintière «From Darkness to Light»! This monumental work is the artist’s re-reading of his deportation as a resistance fighter in the camps of Buchenwald and Dora in the light of the Apocalypse. A moving work, not to forget; a spiritual journey from darkness to light, testimony of hope of a Christian artist who survived the hell of the camps.

About the location

Université Catholique de l'Ouest

4 rue Merlet de la Boulaye, 49000 Angers

Maine-et-Loire
Pays de la Loire

The heritage of the Catholic University of the West consists of many movable and scientific objects among which art tapestries, textile objects, paintings, important scientific collections (chemistry, physics, geologist, paleontologist, botany, zoology), a chapel from the late 19th century, as well as a collection of books from before 1811 containing more than 16,000 works.