Start: Friday 19 September, College of the Resurrection, Mirfield

Finish: Sunday 21 September, Wakefield

The weekend will begin with a lecture by Fr Marc Chaveau, who will share his experience as a Dominican curator during 17 years in the Priory of La Tourette, France, which is still a place inhabited by Dominicans.

Fr Marc’s talk will be focused around the question of dialogue between contemporary art, religious spaces and spirituality. 

Using Fr Marc’s words, “All the artists invited who have exhibited at La Tourette have been touched by this incredible experience. It was a dialogue between Le Corbusier’s architectural work and the works exhibited. There was a new way of looking at both the convent’s architecture and the artworks.”

The weekend will include a visit of the College of the Resurrection on Saturday, a guided tour of selected exhibitions at the Hepworth Gallery on Sunday. A more detailed programme will soon be shared.

Speaker

Frère Marc Chauveau, Dominican and art historian, has lived for twenty years in the convent of La Tourette, built by Le Corbusier in the Lyon region of France. Since 2009, he has curated contemporary art exhibitions, inviting artists to establish a dialogue between their works and those of Le Corbusier.

Frère Marc now lives at Couvent de l’Annonciation in Paris.

Frère Marc Chauveau. Picture by Jean Simar.

More info to come.