Exhibition: in Tours, paper in all its forms
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Exhibition of the Offard workshop at the Hôtel Goüin. CHRISTOPHE RAIBAULT / CD37
An exhibition at the Hôtel Goüin traces twenty-five years of creations from the Offard workshop, founded and directed by master craftsman François-Xavier Richard. A fascinating discovery of the many possibilities of paper.
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I subscribeBulky cardboard-stone lamps spring up like ancient columns in the vestibule of the Hôtel Goüin in Tours. (Indre-et-Loire), which this summer is hosting the exhibition "D'Offard, metamorphoses of paper." A celebration of the expertise of master craftsman François-Xavier Richard and his workshop, like this wall covered with pieces revisiting the art of dominoes, the old name for "wallpapers." In a neighboring room, the landscapes of the Loire scroll by on a large panoramic view, a bit like the production of the domino artists of yesteryear, who used wallpaper as a narrative medium to tell glorious historical events. or great literary sagas.
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