Art lovers are spoilt for choice in our beautiful region so which exhibions to visit? P-O art critic and writer, Ellen Turner Hall’s passion for art leads her all over the P-O, visiting exhibitions featuring some incredible artists, both living and long-departed, some famous, others waiting in the wings.
Visa Pour l’Image. What a great way to explore and enjoy Perpignan, as you wander from venue to venue in this historic centre.
Claude Viallat’s playful take on art is currently filling the Espace des arts, Le Boulou.able body of work on display at the Musée Maillol, Banyuls.
With quaint, cobbled streets, pretty squares, lively shops, restaurants, and bars, and art and music museums, there is certainly enough temptation to hang around the town, but there is plenty going on around and about too.
If you happen to be in Perpignan at the end of the summer and notice an unusually large number of people wandering around with large cameras dangling from their torsos, it is because you have stumbled across « Visa Pour L’Image ».
An anonymous 12th century sculptor, the Master of Cabestany was not recognised until the 1930s when a Romanesque-style tympanum was unearthed during renovation work at the parish church of Cabestany.
An extraordinary collection of works produced by the crazy, the unattached and the marginal, the Museum of Art Brut is a true delight in this all-too-rational world.
In the sumptuous surroundings of the Chateau de Jau and its former silk-factory turned exhibition space, Nicolas Cussac’s art has found a home for the summer.
Lest we forget, Ellen Turner Halls takes us on a visit of the exhibition at Rivesaltes’ Camp Joffre
Another day, another Rigaud : Ellen Turner Hall imagines herself as Perpignan legend, Hyacinthe Rigaud, as he paints his famous Self Portrait.
