Exhibition "Poetic wandering" by Marie Goussé

Name: Exposición "Deambulación poética" de Marie Goussé
Start: 2022-09-17T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Abbaye de Saint-Riquier - Centre culturel départemental

The exhibition "Wandering Poetically" is made up of three works that have in common the reference to the bird

17 i 18 septiembre 2022Passed

Herramientas de registro

0360034470 abbayesaintriquier@somme.fr

Choosing the symbol of the bird for its installations in the gardens of the Saint-Riquier abbey is not insignificant. The artist then refers to the various intellectual activities found in the time of the monks and still today in the abbey. Nevertheless, the choice of the bird symbol in connection with the abbey’s past is not intended to force the visitor to read only one of the exhibition and the works. Everyone is invited to see and decode what they want in order to write their own story.

About the location

Abbaye de Saint-Riquier - Centre culturel départemental

Place de l'église 80135 SAINT-RIQUIER

Somme
Hauts-de-France

On the slopes of the Somme Valley stands a majestic abbey of nearly 1400 years of history. It takes its name from an inhabitant of the vicus of Centule (the city with a hundred towers, today called Saint-Riquier) converted to the Christian religion, which evangelized the Ponthieu and was made holy at his death in 645\.
The monastery founded in the seventh century became a royal abbey in 632 by the protection granted to it by King Dagobert I. His importance was such that in 790 Charlemagne placed at his head one of the highest figures of his court, Angilbert, his adviser. Major abbey of the Carolingian world, it is destroyed in 881 by the invasion of the Normans. In total it will suffer of seventeen destructions. The eclectic architecture of the monument testifies to this turbulent past.
During the French Revolution, the old conventual buildings were sold as national property. Initially used as a quarry of stones, they will then receive many assignments, military (hospitals during the t