Creux de l'Enfer

45°51′N 3°33′E / 45.85°N 3.55°E / 45.85; 3.55

Le Creux de l'Enfer, Thiers, France

The Creux de l'Enfer is a contemporary art center located in Thiers' Vallée des Usines, France. It opened in 1988 in a former cutlery factory which closed in 1956.[1]

The art center was directed by Laurence Gateau[2] from 1988 to 1999, by Frédéric Bouglé from 1999 to 2018, and since 2018 by Sophie Auger-Grappin.[3] It offers a varied and multidisciplinary quarterly program. The exhibitions present sculpture, photography, painting as well as video installations.[4]

Selected exhibitions

  • Mona Hatoum (26 September 1999 - 2 January 2000)[5]
  • Erró (8 June - 14 September 2003)
  • Tadashi Kawamata (25 June - 25 September 2005)
  • Thomas Hirschhorn, Concretion (1 July - 24 September 2006)[6]
  • Mounir Fatmi, Fuck Architects (4 June - 14 September 2008)[7]
  • Claude Closky, Illumination (15 October 2008 - 31 January 2009)[8]
  • Georges Rousse (4 June - 14 September 2014)[9]
  • Claire Tabouret, Neptune (28 June - 17 September 2017)[10]
  • Le Génie du lieu with Jennifer Caubet, Elsa Werth, Sylvain Grout & Yann Mazéas, Hélène Bertin, Flora Moscovici, Anne-Laure Sacriste (27 October 2018 - 17 February 2019)[11]

External links

References

  1. ^ "Le Creux de l'enfer". Biennale d'art contemporain. Retrieved 2020-10-10.
  2. ^ France, Centre (2018-12-26). "Diable, 30 ans ! - Les souvenirs de Laurence Gateau, ancienne directrice du Creux de l'Enfer, à Thiers". www.lamontagne.fr. Retrieved 2020-10-10.
  3. ^ De La Fresnaye, Marie-Elisabeth (2019-05-31). "Rencontre avec Sophie Auger-Grappin, directrice du centre d'art, le Creux de l'Enfer (Thiers)". 9 Lives Magazine (in French). Archived from the original on 2020-03-29. Retrieved 2020-10-10.
  4. ^ "Centre d'art contemporain le Creux de l'enfer | Cnap". www.cnap.fr. Retrieved 2020-10-10.
  5. ^ Thély, Nicolas (1999-11-03). "Mona Hatoum - Pas de printemps pour Mona". Les Inrockuptibles (in French). Retrieved 2020-10-10.
  6. ^ Hirschhorn, Thomas (2006). Thomas Hirschhorn : Concretion (in French). Thomas Hirschhorn. Thiers, France: Centre d'art contemporain Le Creux de l'Enfer.
  7. ^ "Mounir Fatmi | Cnap". www.cnap.fr. Retrieved 2020-10-10.
  8. ^ "Claude Closky at the Creux de l'enfer". www.paris-art.com. Archived from the original on 2020-10-17. Retrieved 2020-10-10.
  9. ^ "Thiers (63): Georges Rousse expose au Creux de l'Enfer". France 3 Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (in French). Retrieved 2020-10-10.
  10. ^ Turcan, Maud (2017-07-06). "Claire Tabouret expose au centre d'art contemporain". www.lamontagne.fr. Archived from the original on 2020-10-17. Retrieved 2020-10-10.
  11. ^ Alkema, Hanna. "La belle revue - Le Génie du lieu at Creux de l'enfer". www.labellerevue.org. Retrieved 2020-10-10.
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