Fenêtre sur cour(s)The core objective of the Royaumont Foundation is to bring people together. This is what inspires projects and in turn enriches individual experience and prompts innovative artistic forms and language.
Convergence underpins Royaumont's support for the creation of new works of art, the transmission of know-how from one generation of artists to another, the conduct of experiments that bring artists and interpreters together and the dissemination of their work through a variety of encounters with the public.
Royaumont offers special opportunities to meet with the artists. These Fenêtres sur cour(s) are deliberately restricted to a limited audience; the idea is to present a work in progress in an open rehearsal by the artists brought together by the Foundation to re-interpret the repertoire, put together music of different origins, invent new works, build choreographed pieces, and so on.
Forthcoming Fenêtres sur cour(s)
Garden... | | | © Joël Klutsch, 2007 |
the nine squares
When landscape architect Olivier Damée created this garden in 2004, he designed it to showcase collections of plants that were to be periodically renewed.
The new theme focused on colour The new garden exhibition is composed mainly of plants from which dyes were made until the advent of chemical dyes in the 19th century. It will also present “fibre” plants used for weaving cloth. In addition to these tinctorial and fibre plants, technical plants, used to achieve durable and stable colour in natural fibres, will also be included. The garden also provides an opportunity to review ancient dye processes dating back to the Middle Ages and earlier periods.
The main exhibition area is made up of nine raised beds of plantings bordered with woven chestnut and surrounded by live willow fencing. The table of knowledge presents a number of potted plants, while next to them a garden of mother plants supplies the garden of nine squares as needed. Last but not least, a small orchard serves as a reminder that abbeys maintained a variety of cultivated areas within their precincts. However, the exhibition does not attempt to faithfully re-create a medieval garden. It demonstrates the principles according to which such gardens were designed and maintained, while adding elements of ornamentation.
Forthcoming the garden
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