Presentation(Display) of the collection of contemporary sculptures

Name: Presentation(Display) of the collection of contemporary sculptures
Start: 2019-09-22T15:00:00+02:00
End: 2019-09-22T16:30:00+02:00
Location: Parc de Pourtalès

Stroll commented in the Park of Pourtalès proposed by the European Centre of contemporary artistic actions(shares)

Sunday 22 September 2019, 15:00Passed

Conditions

Free visit - on registration(inscription) - Meeting(Appointment) in front of the castle - a duration 1 h 30

Registration

public@ceaac.org 03 88 25 69 70

Giulio Paolini, Le Genius Loci, 2000.

Stroll commented in the Park of Pourtalès proposed by the European Centre of contemporary artistic actions(shares)
Together with a guide lecturer, CEAAC suggests you discovering artists' works of international reputation to which we suggested evoking human presence, its representation and its implications in nature.
This meeting will be also a chance to evoke the past of this "English-style" garden surrounding the neoclassical castle registered in conformance with(for) historic monuments and which was built by the family of Bussière sponsor of which the countess Mélanie of Pourtalès was active one for a number important of artists of the XIXth century.
Presented artists: CLAUDIO PARMIGGIANI - Jean - Marie KRAUTH - ERNEST PIGNON-ERNEST - STEPHAN BALKENHOL - GIULIO PAOLINI - JIMMIE DURHAM-SARKIS - GAETANO PESCE - BARRY FLANAGAN

About the location

Parc de Pourtalès

161 rue Mélanie, 67000 Strasbourg

Bas-Rhin
Grand Est

The first activity(occupation) of the site dates the XVIIIth century. 35 hectares of the park are done up in "French-style" garden surrounding a house of master(teacher) and two small detached houses(flags) occupied by an engineer of the king of France. In 1802, the viscount Athanase Paul Renouard of Bussière acquires(buys back) the property compound(made up) from now on of 117 hectares. Alfred de Bussière, son(sons,thread) of the viscount, is going to begin(undertake) big work to transform the house of master(teacher) into castle. His daughter Mélanie-Louise of Buissière, become wife of the banker Edmund de Pourtalès-Gorgier, begins(undertakes) the enlargement of the castle and transforms the "French-style" garden into "English-style" park. The countess of Pourtalès will decide to prettify the park by installing(settling) a collection of neoclassical sculptures there. Mélanie de Pourtalès will receive(welcome) regularly in residence in the castle of the writers, musicians and of the political personalities. In 1914, the countess Mélanie dies. The castle will be definitely closed by Mrs Maurice Bérard, grand-daughter of the countess, in 1939\. Today, the castle was converted into hotel while the park stays the property of the City of Strasbourg. As part of a project conceived(designed) by the European Centre of contemporary artistic actions(shares) (CEAAC), a collection of contemporary sculptures was installed(settled) in diverse points of the park.