The 16th Briscarts

For the sixteenth time in about ten years, some local artists opened the doors of their workshops. The event is organized twice a year by the association of the Briscarts and usually lasts an evening (with a collective exhibition) and two days (Saturday-Sunday). Thirty-seven artists participated to the even this November's event. Bocaj and Seb. M didn't (first time for long). Bernard Lecointre has a too small and narrow place, people might break or leave with some of his works and he certainly doesn't need thieves nor vandals, his great ingenuity is limitated to artistical creation, he needs buyers...

I have written more specifically, and will write, about local artists. You are warmly invited to explore this blog! 

Enclos Tissié Sarrus

The opening exhibition, on Friday evening in the Salle Saint-Ravy, invites people to discover the universe of every artist through one selected work. One work is not enough in most of the cases, but it allows the visitors to  make a personal selection and plan their visit. It would be to stay in an artistically dense part of the city and ignore everything else, or to choose where to go following the colors of the doors. The amateurs wouldn't spot the professionnal and/or most interesting artists in this heterogeneous gathering. Tourists wouldn't find the lovely Atelier du singe vert (Nathalie Le Gall), hiding in a lovely private street, and they would miss a good exhibition.

Visitors would aim at the double addresses, and expect to dive everywhere in a bourgeois 19th century, as at the 34, rue Saint-Guilhem.

Monica Jacquin

Monica Jacquin

Christian Cabanes

Christian Cabanes

Christian Cabanes

Gisèle Cazilhac

Visitors might search Gisèle Cazilhac, if they know her from her collaborations (la Cabane Trempée...), posters for festivals, long presence in the place, or find her place unpurposedly: there is another opened studio in the same street, better advertised (posters, website, large glass door), while her place looks from outside like a garage. It would be a shame.

Fortunately, she has a "gallery": Mica, 36 rue Saint-Guilhem. This tiny shop, often only opened in the afternoon, sells local cheap and good art. Mica presents... Mica (pins, serigraphy, etc.), and for example Bertrand Lecointre, François Bouët, Gisèle Cazilhac. Modest arts? There is nothing naive there. Real personalities, real skills.

Joan Beall

Mica promotes artists who on their turn help pals. François Bouët invited Joan Beall, engraver working in the village of Octon, to share his workplace for an exhibition. They both promote engravers exhibitions...

François Bouët

For more classical tastes and color-lovers, the studio of Raphaël Ségura is rich enough... Former art teacher, M. Ségura paints, draws, illustrates books of poetry.

We missed time to visit the studios of the painters Christophe Aichelmann, Isabelle Marsala, Anne Jean-Joseph or the photographer Sylvie Huet (Débit de Beau... promoted, as for her, by the charming hostesses of Cubik): next time!

It would be quite nice also if Frédérique Dupuis could take part. No?