Exhibition

Alain Biet "Halleboteur"

15 Jun 2024 – 22 Sep 2024

Regular hours

Saturday
10:00 – 18:00
Sunday
14:30 – 18:00
Tuesday
10:00 – 12:30
Thursday
14:30 – 18:30
Friday
14:30 – 18:30

Free admission

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DRAWinternational

Caylus
Occitanie, France

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  • Caussade Tarn et Garonne
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DRAWinternational and Les Abattoirs, Musée – Frac Occitanie Toulouse , already partners in organising exhibitions of works from the Abattoirs collections, join forces in 2024 to welcome the artist Alain Biet.

About

As part of the programme " Artistes et Paysans" Alain Biet returns to his origins as the son of winegrowers. He experienced all the vineyard tasks within the family farm, before undertaking an artistic career.

With the title of the exhibition, the artist asserts an identity, a story.

Indeed, “halleboteur” is a Touraine term which designates a person who gathers the grapes forgotten in the vineyards after the harvest. This term also has a literary history: it is referenced in the famous novel by François Rabelais Gargantua (1534), whose story, which is located in Touraine, praises wine: "a precious liquid endowed with great virtues". Hence Alain Biet comes to "hallow" his perhaps forgotten memories and offer a new flourishing of them through a profusion of drawings of familiar objects linked to the wine-growing world.

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