Cultural season 2021
This year, the Bois-Guilbert Sculpture Garden presents photographs by Olivier MARTEL in the garden on the theme of "Eternal women around the world", and works by contemporary artists in the château's salons presented by FRAC NORMANDIE ROUEN, Fonds Régional d'Art Contemporain, as part of an exhibition bearing the Flaubert 21 label, dedicated to the illustrious Norman writer whose bicentenary is being celebrated in Normandy.
Find out more about our 2021 cultural program!
APRIL 10 TO NOVEMBER 7: DENATURALISER, BOUVARD ET PÉCUCHET EXHIBITION
Science and humor are intrinsically linked to the caustic novel Bouvard et Pécuchet. Readers will recall their museum in the form of a cabinet of curiosities, as well as their many successive interests in anatomy, zoology, astronomy and geology.
The Frac - Fonds régional d'Art contemporain Normandie Rouen has selected works from its collection that similarly take an offbeat, absurd yet often poetic look at the natural sciences.
MAY 1 TO NOVEMBER 7: ETERNAL WOMEN AROUND THE WORLD EXHIBITION
Forty years of photographic experience, seventy-five countries around the world. Photographer Olivier MARTEL offers an encounter with women from different backgrounds, ethnic groups and cultures, ten years after his exhibition of the series completed by the Senate on the gates of the Jardin du Luxembourg.
A photographer and reporter, Olivier Martel graduated from the Ecole des Beaux-arts d'Avignon and the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. He has contributed to numerous publications.
Twenty photographs line the Garden and its seventy permanent sculptures.
Exhibition and sale of his works, and of the book "Femmes éternelles" with texts by Eric Fottorino.
SATURDAY JUNE 5 AND SUNDAY JUNE 6: LES RENDEZ-VOUS AUX JARDINS, FROM 10AM TO 6PM
Organized by the French Ministry of Culture, this year's Rendez-vous aux Jardins focuses on the transmission of knowledge. Activities for families. Discussions with trainees in the Ecology degree program at the University of Rouen. Meeting with Jean-Marc de Pas.
SUNDAY, AUGUST 22: BOIS-GUILBERT RÉTRO, 12TH EDITION, 10 A.M. TO 6 P.M.
Gathering of vintage and prestige cars, around the château.
Exhibition of the Pégase car with rotating headlights, created in the 1920s by Etienne d'Arboval, grandfather of the family. A day of conviviality and exchange with enthusiasts. Light refreshments on site.
JULY 10 TO AUGUST 15: A SUMMER OF MUSIC, SUNDAYS, 6-10PM
Share unique moments in the Sculpture Garden, during a musical summer, with evenings outdoors or in the château's salons. On Saturday, July 10, and every Sunday thereafter, music takes center stage.
After each concert, you can enjoy a candlelit dinner with the musicians and the owners of the château - picnic included.
This year's program has been designed in collaboration with Fériel KADDOUR, pianist, concert performer and professor of musicology at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris, who has been in residence at the château for several years.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 21, 2021: EMMA BOVARY ROMANCIERE LECTURE
With Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert invented a new relationship with literature. His heroine, Emma, is defined as a reader, a bad reader and a reader of bad literature. This leads her to be romantic, to construct novels in which life seems insipid, unacceptable... In the end, she writes a role in which her character meets the demands of a new literature, disenchanted and lucidly tragic.
Vincent Vivès teaches literature from the 19th to the 21st centuries at the Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France. His work focuses particularly on poetry and music. He is one of the scientific curators of the Madame rêve en Bovary exhibition at the Maison Marrou and the Opéra de Rouen, and organizer of a series of lecture-concerts at the Château de Bosmelet, Flaubert/Baudelaire: regards croisés.
SUNDAY, AUGUST 29: CONCERT WITH THE DIMITRI QUARTET
Concert with Céline Planes and Louise Grindel, violinists with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio-France, Renaud Stahl, principal viola, and Frédéric Dupuis, cellist, both with the Orchestre National d'Ile de France.
Program: Mozart (Quartet KV158 in F major), Schubert (Death and the Maiden), Dvorak (American Quartet) and Brahms (Hungarian Dances).
Concert in the garden, weather permitting, or in the château salons, followed by a friendly drink.
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 18 AND SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 19: EUROPEAN HERITAGE DAYS, 10AM TO 6PM
Organized by the French Ministry of Culture, on the theme "Heritage for all". Reduced admission for all: €6, free under 18.
Visit the garden and exhibitions.
Free modeling workshop from 3 pm to 6 pm, Saturday and Sunday.
Presentation of Citadelles & Mazenod on Sunday 19th from 10am to 6pm and presentation of the book "L'Orient de Flaubert en images" by its author Gisèle Séginger - lecture at 4pm (registration recommended) and book signing.
Visit of the workshop and meeting with Jean-Marc de Pas, sculptor, creator of the garden, Sunday 19th from 10am to 1pm, 2pm to 4pm and 6pm to 7pm.
Concert on Sunday at 6pm cancelled.
