Severine MoulinJacques Morel
The exhibition curator shares his enthusiasm with us.
The Crossroads of Arts of Lalouvesc
A modern art gallery in the village: Lalouvesc is the summer cultural destination in Northern Ardèche. The Carrefour des Arts exhibits many well-known and emerging artists and programs jazz and classical concerts. A feast for the eyes and ears. Artists from all walks of life and audiences come together thanks to the concerts and exhibitions at the Carrefour des Arts.
The Micro-folie festival in Val d’Ay
The Lalouvesc Arts Crossroads and Micro-madness celebrated the start of the school year! No major theater or national museum in Val d'Ay? No problem, we're enjoying the Digital Museum and masterpieces right on your doorstep. The Ardèche never ceases to amaze you!
This itinerant and fun museum is programmed by the different municipalities of Val d'Ay and around Annonay. All audiences are invited to enjoy, exchange, discover or rediscover the masterpieces of the Louvre or the Musée d'Orsay.
Micro-madness ministry of culture
A summer in Lalouvesc
The Crossroads of Arts of Lalouvesc proudly embraces this desire for diversity and encounter. An annual exhibition with a territory, artists with an audience. Developing a diversity of cultural offerings in rural areas is a vocation. This allows residents far from major urban centers to enjoy art and artists just a stone's throw from the fields.
The association takes up the challenge with panache: the exhibitions have been free since the beginning. We are amazed by the quality! Indeed everything is thought out in an eclecticism as to the choice of artists and works.
Contemporary French and international painters. A musical program and encounters with the artists. A unique development for this high-flying, multidisciplinary cultural event. Volunteers from the village and surrounding areas provide the welcome during the two summer months. Thus, the materials intersect, find their place, and are illuminated. We talk about them, we rejoice, and we question ourselves.
A human adventure
The association's volunteers have been working since 1989, sharing their passion for the arts, paintings, sculptures, photography, and artistic expression in all its forms. Each exhibition is prepared, installed, and dismantled by a team of volunteers (electricians, carpenters, seamstresses, communicators, designers, accountants, lawyers, architects, etc.).
“There is a time for everything, a time to create and a time to marvel. The Carrefour des Arts has the immense pleasure each year of introducing more than 8000 people to the work of artists, and of making young and old, young and old dream during a visit.”
Julien Besset, President of the Carrefour des Arts
Severine MoulinWhat would you say to someone to join the association?
I would say to him: "If you like the Arts and the Haute Ardèche, with 10 euros per year you will be informed of our exhibitions, our concerts, our museum visits and artists' studios and if you wish to do a little volunteer work, you can join our working committees where everyone contributes what they can according to their time and expertise: plastic arts, performing arts, communication, technique... there is room for all passions, even for a few hours in the summer."
Can you tell us about a place in the region that you absolutely must not miss?
I am as much urban as rural so I will mention two:
- Le old center of Annonay for the history it reveals, the relief it gives to the urbanity, its complexity, its resilience...and I would recommend ending with a walk upstream along the Deume to understand the geography
- La Chapelle Our Lady of Ay for the beauty of the site and while you're at it, on the day of a Carrefour des Arts concert
