AN ARTIST - A PLACE
GRATALOUP
A PAINTER IN LOVE WITH HIS TOWN AND CHEVREUSE VALLEY
Film directed by Laurent PORTES
CHEVREUSE
A CITY RICH AND PROUD OF A PRESTIGIOUS PAST AND CONCERNED WITH ITS CONTEMPORARY HERITAGE
The Musée GRATALOUP is hosted by the city of Chevreuse in the chapel of the SAINT SATURNIN PRIORY, the only surviving testimony of the priory built in Chevreuse in the 11th century. The chapel was renovated in 2011 by the architect Pascal Chovin, who was also in charge of the restoration of the Château de la Madeleine and the realization of the Maison du Parc.
The story of the Priory
In 2011, GRATALOUP designed three contemporary stained glass windows. Realized in collaboration with the Ateliers Loire, master glassmakers in Chartres for more than three generations, the work of these stained glass windows is based on a contemporary research, characterized by the use of different materials and a new use of these - cut glasses, largely loose lead-free collages thus opening the overall vision -.
GRATALOUP
speaks about his stained glass windows
" AN ART THAT BELONGS TO EVERYBODY AND NOBODY .... "
EVE is a symbolic and archetypal representation that has more to do with a "particulate" appearance that appears or disappears according to the light or the viewer’s location.
THE APPLE TREE is in front of EVE. Without the apple and in its monochromatic greenery, the light that crosses it reveals its foliage, of which no leaf is similar in its immateriality. It shows us nature in its infinite multiplicity. It is the tree of life and knowledge that guides or forbids final enlightenment.
THE HOURGLASS is the destiny of the human being who shows its reality. It is rooted in the vibrations of the celestial azure and its finality is realized in the terrestrial by a halo of light at the bottom of the hourglass.