Animation for school children: an old chapel and a Japanese artist, the unusual metamorphosis!

Name: Animación para los escolares: ¡una antigua capilla y un artista japonés, la insólita metamorfosis!
Start: 2020-09-18T10:30:00+02:00
End: 2020-09-18T15:30:00+02:00
Location: La chapelle des pommiers

Guided tour of the apple tree chapel

Viernes 18 septiembre 2020, 10:30, 11:30, 14:00, 15:00Passed

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Register / book: https://www.les-enfants-du-patrimoine.fr/visites/une-pepite-cachee-du-patrimoine-de-la-chapelle-au-lieu-d-art-1379

The St Vigor Chapel is located 4 km from the cliff. It has been transformed into a work of art by a Japanese artist: Kyoji Takubo. The roof with coloured glass tiles evokes the stained glass. The walls are decorated with frescoes representing branches of apple trees obtained by scraping different layers of paint. Since these transformations, the chapel has become a place of exhibition.

About the location

La chapelle des pommiers

Chapelle St Vigor, 14700 Saint-Martin-de-Mieux

Calvados
Normandie

Small chapel which harmonises with the farms which surround it. Totally left neglected, she(it) is spotted by the Japanese artist Kyoji Takubo who settles down in Falaise(Cliff) in 1989 and carries out(achieves) in this chapel a permanent work. After complete restoration(catering), the artist covered the walls of several coats(layers) of painting(paint) of different colours by ending with the white. Then by scratching, he(it) revealed motives on the theme of apple trees.