A surprising visit at the Mercurart garden

Ain't this special, the temperatures are  below the seasonal norms and yet a small walk in the Mercurart garden gave us a nice surprise...

A Day Peacock was foraging one of our pink rosemary.
Two enchantments on the same photograph !

Did you already planned your stay in the Ardèche and your visit at the Mercurart garden and gallery ?

Mercurart under the snow

Aerial shots, Thursday, March 1st.


Mercurart under the snow ....

Gallery Mercurart wish you a happy 2018 !

Gallery Mercurart wish you a happy 2018 !

In 2018, we wish you good health and harmonious social relations

In 2018, we wish that our commitment in and for Culture, contribute the combat against the  withdrawal and the practice of power relations.

In 2018, we hope to see you or see you again at the Mercurart garden and gallery !

Some photographs taken this winter in the garden : mixture of past achievements and current creations…:

Preparing of the exposition "États d'âmes" (Moods)

5 Artists of the Mercurart gallery will be welcomed at the Priory of Manthes (26210) in the north of the Drôme department for an exhibition called "Etats d'âmes" (Moods).

Last wednesday, the 6th of September we transported and installed the Art Works.

"Soumission" (Submission) transcription in steel @Mercurart

Soumission (Submission)
"In 1981, at the time of being fired by my employer, I expressed on canvas a sometimes complacent attitude of managers of companies towards their hierarchy. In 2016, I transcribed these obedient figures in steel and in a large size. The sculpture weighs about 500 kg. These last days we have installed three other pieces against the wall of the entrance to the Art gallery, in a position which anticipates that they are joining the first. »

Jean-Claude Millet

A clever spider @The Mercurart Garden

We met an artist spider, already presented in the blog of July 5, 2017.

But we just found out that its also a forger.

"Cyclosa conica" has as characteristic of weaving a vertical strip more dense in the middle of his painting, a "stabilimentum", she adorns remains of plants and prey.

"In the middle of this line structure, the spider leaves an opening, where it will settle down. Then it also closes this strip of waste and shrink among the debris in the eyes of some potential predators. The spider take part of the rare species that transform their environment so that they can be camouflaged. "For most animals, the camouflage works in reverse: they are the ones who adapt themselves to the environment".

Source RTBF info.

Another reason to name the large sculptures of Séverin, “Les Témoins” (The Witnesses) lays in the fact that one of the two is positioned in the right direction to observe what has just been described.