Exhibition of artists Micha Tauber and Joanna Letchimy at the chapel of Vauguillain

Name: Exhibition of artists Micha Tauber and Joanna Letchimy at the chapel of Vauguillain
Start: 2024-09-21T10:30:00+02:00
End: 2024-09-21T18:30:00+02:00
Location: Chapelle de Vauguillain

Artists Micha Tauber and Joanna Letchimy were inspired by the chapel in 2023, creating a long painting canvas for one and cyanotypes for the other.

Saturday 21 September, 10:30Passed

Artists Micha Tauber and Joanna Letchimy were inspired by the chapel in 2023, creating a long painting canvas for one and cyanotypes for the other.
They present the work started last year around the themes of architecture, traces, construction, light, on the occasion of the European Heritage Days.

About the location

Chapelle de Vauguillain

105 route de la Chapelle, 89330 Saint-Julien-du-Sault

Yonne
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté

The chapel of Vauguillain was built in the 12th century by Archbishop Guillaume de Champagne. Dedicated to Saint-Julien, the only building remaining with the ramparts, the chapel dominates the village of Saint-Julien-du-Sault and the Yonne valley. Saint-Julien becomes barony of the archbishops of Sens: King Louis VII, brother-in-law of Guillaume, often comes. After a period of inactivity, the fortress found a role as a support point for the troops of Henri de Navarre, future Henri IV. In 1634, the castle becomes an old abandoned hut: the ramparts disappear little by little but the inhabitants maintain their chapel which remained parish served by the canons of the chapter of Saint-Julien. During the Revolution, the property of the archdiocese was put up for sale: the chapel and the land were bought by André Destroye, winemaker in Vauguillain for 600 francs in 1794\. It was sold in 1813 to a Jovinian who had promised to make repairs, but the project would never see the light of day. The