To close By continuing to browse this site, you accept the use of cookies to offer you content and services tailored to your areas of interest. Learn more and manage these settings . Sunday 02 October, 21:54, Saint Léger LOG IN GREAT SOUTH FRANCE - WORLD MISCELLANEOUS ECONOMY SPORTS HEALTH TV-PEOPLE HOBBIES IMMOVABLE SERVICES + MY INFO International Politics Justice Society Education Science Space News News France Society Posted on 09/30/2016 5:10 PM Jean-Michel Othoniel gives a new setting to the treasure of Angoulême cathedral Society Artist Jean-Michel Othoniel, here, staged the sacred art treasure of Saint-Pierre d'Angoulême cathedral Yohan BONNET / AFP The sacred art treasure of Saint-Pierre d'Angoulême cathedral (Charente), staged by contemporary sculptor Jean-Michel Othoniel, was inaugurated this Friday. Some 147 objects of sacred art dating from the second half of the 19th century, statues, pieces of silverware, reliquaries, monstrances or lapidaries, are exhibited on three levels in the south transept of the religious building. Conceived as a "dialogue between history and the contemporary", Othoniel's flamboyant scenography, combining Murano glass beads and aluminum rings, mobilized around fifteen of the best craftsmen in France. "I wanted this explosion of materials with the idea that the beautiful leads to the sacred, a vision that I adopted during my travels in Asia," said Jean-Michel Othoniel. Magnified by an immense stained-glass window containing 10,000 pieces of glass, gold and mica, the cathedral treasure houses, on the top floor, a reliquary, created by Othoniel, containing a fragment of the femur of Pierre Aumaître, Charente missionary martyred in Korea. in 1866, then beatified in 1968 and canonized by Pope John Paul II in 1984. "This treasure is a once-in-a-lifetime project, something which still nourishes me and which will inevitably have a great influence on my work in the future," said Jean-Michel Othoniel. Considered "the Peter Pan of contemporary art", the artist is known to the general public for having dressed the Palais-Royal metro station in Paris in Murano glass beads. In May 2015, at the Palace of Versailles, he inaugurated "Les Belles Danses", three fountain sculptures installed on the basins of the new water theater grove redesigned by the landscape designer Louis Benech. In Angoulême, it took eight years of work. The result of a public order in 2008, the day after the restoration of Angoulême Cathedral, supervised by the Poitou-Charentes Regional Directorate of Cultural Affairs (Drac), this installation received support from the State and sponsorship from Engie (former GDF-Suez foundation). Public tours will begin on All Saints' Day. © 2016 AFP SOCIETY REAL ESTATE IN TOULOUSE € 142,570 Quiet, in a well-maintained condominium, apartment type [...] 149,000 € Close to the Borderouge metro station, on the first floor of a [...] 440,000 € Between Pont neuf and Carmes, quiet, beautiful apartment of 106 m², 5 [...] All the property ads for Toulouse Buying a house Apartment purchase House rental Apartment rental Moderation charter Give your opinion ! Log in to write a comment Create a free account Log into my account In images, in pictures 15 from AZF: the commemoration in pictures Society 17:34 Church: a 34th bell for the Castres carillon 11:31 A Toulouse student gets paid for half of her studies thanks to ... 07:10 Soon, plainclothes and armed railway workers In the news 17:35 A woman falls from a building and is killed in Toulouse 15:52 Valls rings the mobilization in favor of the true-false candidate Holland 09:37 "When you're a nurse in the emergency room": Caroline Estremo leaves ... Relive the celebrations of August 15 in Lourdes in pictures Elsewhere on the web © ladepeche.fr OJD certified Contact us | Legal notices | We are recruiting | RSS | Site map | Moderation charter