Exhibition "André Even - By the fields and by the strikes"

Name: Exhibition "André Even - By the fields and by the strikes"
Start: 2022-09-17T13:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Chapelle des Ursulines

Retrospective of the painter André Even, painter of Pont-Aven

17 and 18 September 2022Passed

Conditions

A second part of the exhibition takes place at the Quimperlé media library (10am-6pm on Saturdays)

André Even par Michel Thersiquel ©Port-musée de Douarnenez , Association des Amis de Michel Thersiquel

This exhibition brings together about a hundred works by Even (1918-1997), from his beginnings to later ones, including many local landscapes. The public can discover wax paintings, a technique he has customised for his creations, as well as sketches and preparatory drawings.

About the location

Chapelle des Ursulines

Avenue Jules Ferry, 29300 Quimperlé

Finistère
Bretagne

The chapel of Notre-Dame-des-sept-douleurs, known as the Ursuline Chapel, is a 17th-century Historical Monument, located in an old monastic complex founded by a community of Ursulines dedicated to the education of girls.
In 1652, the Ursulines of Tréguier were authorized to found an establishment. In 1674 (date regravée), the conventual buildings were completed, as was the church. Expulsion of the nuns and sale as national property in 1792\. Return of the congregation and resumption of teaching from 1803\. In 1907, following the Law of Separation of Churches and the State, the Ursulines left and a higher primary school for girls was established. The former conventual church, owned by the municipality, serves since 1996 as a place of exhibition. In 2002, a project to restore, restructure and expand the school, owned by the department.
Today, this monastic ensemble has become the Jules Ferry College and since 1996, the chapel has been devoted to contemporary art exhibitions. The chapel i