3-in-One. Discover another Collioure
By Ellen Turner Hall
Three small galleries. Three hidden gems. Three reasons to venture off the beaten track and discover another Collioure.
At the Galerie Emerveille the paintings and tapestries of Andreas Rüthi, are inspired by the landscape. From his workshop in Rimbau surrounded by hills, Rüthi paints a patchwork world of colour sometimes with the ghostlike silhouette of Perpignan’s skyline in the distance, sometimes with the clock tower of Collioure on the horizon. Monumental mushrooms are the subject of two tapestries, from a series of wall hangings, one of which is due to be shown in the Royal Academy this spring.
The small gallery off the garden of the Musée d’art moderne is filled with varied interpretations of the landscape between Céret and Collioure. Fourteen local artists took up the challenge to bicycle between the two museums drawing whatever took their fancy along the way. The results, hung like laundry on a line, are both witty and weighty. While Nicolas Cussac paints his sugary rousquille with a bite taken out, Aline Filipp draws a sober tree-lined stretch of road. Nicole Bergé and Barbara Nascimbeni both integrate bicycle wheels into their designs, one with stick-on badges and the other with inky circles.
Tralala gallery has just taken permanent residence in a lovely luminous space on Boramar Beach. As you walk in the door, two large works and about a dozen miniatures by Willy Mucha greet you. Particularly striking is one which depicts a yellow boat with a net full of fish suspended in the water. Anticipating a summer show dedicated to blue, is a corner with pots by Beatriz Garrido and blue ball-point drawings by Laetitia Grun. Penstroke by penstroke, delicate and precise, layer upon layer, Grun creates a vision full of depth. In colourful contrast to all that blue, are two Miro lithographs and a watercolour by Franck Gabarrou.
Galerie Emerveille, Route de la gare, 06.14.17.17.20,
12 April to 28 June.
Musée d’art moderne, Route de Port Vendres, 04.30.44.05.46,
11 April to 17 May.
Tralala, Boramar Beach, 06.25.40.79.92,
All year round.