From April 30 to January 14 in Chartres: Chartres in lights.
The Montescot hotel, Entitled “Rock, paper, scissors…”, the scenography of the Montescot hotel invites you to explore some pages of the building’s history through a child’s perspective. Like the famous hand game, between surprise and magic, emotion and monumental perception, our vision of the site will evolve over the sequences.
St. Peter’s Street. Thanks to a creation by the city’s graphic studio (Jean-Baptiste Maradeix and Stéphane Lebouché), the portraits of the 11 characters who have marked the history of Chartres (Father Franz Stock, Raymond Isidore Picplate, Jean Moulin, Chaim Soutine, Charles Péguy, Noël Ballay, François Séverin Marceau, Jérôme Pétion, Henri IV, Mathurin Régnier and Bishop Fulbert) will come alive this year. Maybe they will even follow you with their eyes? (Impacted by the shortage of components, the setting up of the scenography of rue Saint-Pierre could be delayed).
And always…
The royal portal of the cathedral, with two scenographies that turn in a loop: “Chartres, from yesterday to tomorrow” and “Nave of light”.
The north portal of the cathedral, with a scenography that restores the polychromy, which has now disappeared, of the statuary of the portal.
The south portal of the cathedral, with a scenography that imagines that all the sunlight that has penetrated the stained glass windows emerges at nightfall.
The church of Saint-Pierre, with a show that shows the evolution of the light projected by the sun and then the moon on the facades of the building, from the depths of the night to the first glimmers of dawn.
The main facade of the Museum of Fine Arts. A tribute to Jean Moulin, this scenography highlights the highlights of his life through his writings and drawings.
The theatre, where a love affair takes place.
The bridges and washhouses and the Saint-André collegiate church are invested by a phantasmagoria of animals and plants. A beautiful escape in a magical nature, accompanied by sound atmospheres that accentuate the immersive character.
The Quai Gloriette, where the bridges and washhouses are adorned with a magical world populated by magical creatures, taken from encyclopedias and books of hours, with, in the background, a weft of Art Nouveau-inspired plants, and, in colored and textured superimpositions of glass, animal, vegetable and hybrid chimeras.
And also… The L’Apostrophe media library, the Lattre-de-Tassigny fresco and L’Eurélium.
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