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Activities
Individual gallery visit
Full price: €6
Reduced rate: 4€
Free: children under 7
(By appointment) Full price: €50 (including a private tour, a drink and an art book, deducted in the case of purchases exceeding twice this amount)
Group visit (by appointment)
For groups of 10 or more:
Classic admission: €5
Visit and “RÉGION” aperitif (local white wine and crottin de Chavignol): €10
PRESTIGE” tour and aperitif (Nancay and Vouvray shortbread): €10
CONNAISSEUR” visit (“PRESTIGE” package + art book): €25
Tour times
March 23 to December 7 Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays, 10am to 12:30pm and 2:30pm to 7pm
Information by telephone on 02 48 51 80 22 or by e-mail at contact@galerie-capazza.com
Galerie Capazza, Denis Monfleur｜Galerie CapazzaMarch 23: festive reopening to celebrate 50 years
Free admission – 11am to 6pm
July 5, October 4: vernissages
Free admission – 3pm to 8pm
Practical info
- Annual opening hours
MARCH – DECEMBER
From March 23rd to December 7th Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays from 10am to 12:30pm and 2:30pm to 7pm
- Access and transport
Private parking lot.
Paris Orly airport (180 km) – Tours airport (110 km) – A71 freeway exit n°4 Salbris (15 km) – SNCF Vierzon station (18 km) – GPS 47.08 – 2.39
- Catering
Tearoom on site.
Information by telephone on 02 48 51 80 22 or by e-mail at contact@galerie-capazza.com
- Hosting
List of local accommodation on request.
- Events (seminars and receptions)
- Seminars
- Reception (with or without organization service, equipment available)
Information and booking by telephone on 02 48 51 80 22 or by e-mail at
contact@galerie-capazza.com - Means of payment
Cash, cheque, credit card.
- Host languages
Visitors welcome in English, French, Spanish, German and Italian.
- Reduced rates (on presentation of proof of entitlement)
- Minors (aged 7 and over)
- Students
- Jobseekers
- Route Jacques Cœur Privilege Pass
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- PMR accessibility
PMR on first floor.
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Galerie Capazza, Denis Monfleur｜Galerie Capazza
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Galerie Capazza, Denis Monfleur｜Galerie Capazza
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Galerie Capazza, Denis Durand｜Galerie CapazzaFind out more about the location
Behind the walls, it's a haven.
To enter this port is to leave behind ordinary storms and squalls, and even words and phrases. It’s to enter a dilated time where only the gaze counts, first caught by the space between the long brown façade and the grassy rectangle planted with sculptures. Thus stripped or washed of the everyday, it’s possible to walk through the door. As you wander through the rooms, where the works resonate within you, or not, abolished time arrives. Silence hugs the waxed brick, the lighting leads the eye, the works converse with one another, footsteps stop, skirt around, move aside, the hand would like to sketch an approach, the eye caresses a surface, tries to understand the material, dreams from a fragment. The words will then return, on the spot, on the way back, by other paths.
To describe the place in this way would be to convey only a part of it, and would be to forget the duo who created and animate it, who have become a quartet in recent years. With their complementary personalities, at once discreet and present to each visitor, the four accomplices bring a warm welcome, intimate knowledge of the artists selected, the right unveiling of the techniques employed, acute attention to detail, and the art of inviting music and gastronomy to amplify the inaugurations. Gérard and Sophie Capazza ‘s first-day utopia is reminiscent of the Abbey of Thélème, but it’s they who hold it for us, whether we’re faithful visitors or just passing through. Faithful? No other doctrine than the sharing of artistic emotions, however, a principle that Denis and Laura Durand-Capazza have enthusiastically embraced with the same passion as their elders.
Sometimes, something of the enchantment felt between the walls arrives in a home thanks to the adoption of a piece chosen by particular glances, a piece then colored by its new context. Would the work have found these gazes and completed the journey it began in the artist’s studio without his presence in Nançay?
Leaving the gallery, before falling back into clockwork time, who hasn’t felt refreshed and rejuvenated by rubbing shoulders with the works and the beneficial sense of otherworldliness of this atypical place?
(Elisabeth Dousset – excerpt from the book “Ensemble depuis 40 ans”, Editions Galerie Capazza, 2015)
Galerie Capazza, Laura and Denis Capazza Durand｜Julie Beal
Galerie Capazza｜Galerie CapazzaGérard Capazza is not the least famous of these ocean-going captains. For forty years, he has taken his crew far beyond the known and catalogued worlds, constantly exploring what had not yet been explored. Without doubt having received the honors he would have deserved, he has written history, redefined the map of the senses, and pushed back the frontiers of the horizon.
Those who embarked aboard his ship of art and peace, aboard this singular Ark rich in so many treasures, have, without always being aware of it, participated in an undertaking to preserve the world, at the same time as on a cruise through the imaginary of our time. Murderous reefs, contrary winds and sudden storms have not managed to deviate one inch from the course of this unsinkable will.
In its wake, I see the possibility of inventing new worldsin my turn…
(Ludovic Duhamel – Directeur de Publication Miroir de l’Art – excerpt from the book “Ensemble depuis 40 ans”, Editions Galerie Capazza, 2015)
Few galleries have a space as conducive to showcasing works of art as Capazza. Every visit is a voyage of initiation. You arrive at Grenier de Villâtre via a small bridge over the Coulonet. Through the door, you are greeted by two powerful statues of women by Franta and Fanny Ferré. Further on, Jacky Coville ‘s whimsical bestiary frolics on the vast lawn between sober pink brick buildings.
Grenier is aptly named, for it is indeed a place where grain is stored, grain sown in the soil of visitors’ imaginations. Medieval dwelling of the squires of the Lord of La Châtre? 19th-century château farm? The site bears witness to its dual origins as both a nobleman’s home and a peasant’s farm. Each room offers an uncluttered space where each work can unfold its own world, resonate with its neighbors or echo from one room to another, without the eye ever being hindered by the artifacts of their staging.
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On certain evenings, the attic is the scene of “strange parties “1 where – as in the odyssey of Augustin Meaulnes – a colored reflection floats in the high windows, music plays somewhere, shadows glide across the lawn and the hubbub of conversation rises up in the brightly lit upper hall. These vernissage evenings are invaluable for art lovers. Here you can meet the artists in a convivial atmosphere conducive to exchange. You can hear Goudji recount his incredible journey from his native Georgia, Antoine Leperlier expound his philosophy of time and dream about the states of glass, Christine Fabre explain how she tames bronze, Bernard Dejonghe express his fascination for Neolithic tools and earthen crusts, Felipe Gayo enthuse about mathematics and the genesis of geometric forms…
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The magic of these evenings lies in the radiant presence of the works, which produce a vibration in the air. This presence is enhanced tenfold by the art of ” lighting “. For the gallery is above all a skilfully organized space of light. As you make your way through the rooms, there are passages of semi-darkness, the better to surprise you with the bright illumination of pieces floating on fragile shelves. The lighting is a real eye-opener, an aid to reading and an encouragement to explore.
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1 Cf. Fournier, Alain, (2013, reprint of 1913 edition), Le grand Meaulnes, Chapitre 13 : La fête étrange, Paris, Aux Forges de Vulcain. The gallery includes a small room dedicated to Alain Fournier, a child of the region, who was probably inspired by the buildings of the Grenier de Villâtre for the decor of the party at which Augustin Meaulnes meets Yvonne de Galais.
(Françoise Clerc – Villers, November 2014 – excerpt from the book “Ensemble depuis 40 ans”, Editions Galerie Capazza, 2015)
Galerie Capazza, Claudi Casanovas｜Galerie Capazza
Galerie Capazza, Salle Galerie｜Galerie CapazzaContinuity between the arts: goldsmiths, painters, draughtsmen, photographers, ceramists, sculptors and glassmakers all have their place in the gallery. Beyond the diversity, the attentive observer can detect correspondences, or rather echoes, from one work to another, structures or forms common to one artist to another. Michel Madore ‘s painting ” Les dormeurs et un ange au-dessus d’eux ” evokes Jeanclos’s sculpted sleepers.
Resonances between ceramics and photography are magnified by Andoche Praudel’s ” Les champs de bataille “: photographs of former battlefields, pacified and fragile, are exhibited alongside the tortured ” Trophées “, exploded and charred, as if abandoned in the hell of battle. The echoes and links help to create a dreamlike universe that now extends to the books, where Denis Durand ‘s photographs do justice to the artists’ work.
Although we are more spontaneously drawn to earth and glass, we have also learned to appreciate other arts. In the case of Philibert-Charrin, for example, Gérard Capazza used all his talent to help us discover the subtlety of his constructions and his quirky sense of humor.
As art lovers, we’ve come to recognize that aesthetic value lies not in the work itself, nor in the way we look at it, but in the relationship the work has with the viewer, who mentally inserts it into his or her own universe. A collection projects something of the collector. The choice of a work is a moment of intense emotion, between the exaltation of discovery and the triviality of estimating the possible, between desire and the principle of reality, during which the trusting dialogue with Gérard Capazza plays an important role.
For our favorite artists, for whom we have a particular expectation, the pleasure is to share a vision of their work, to compare it with works already known, to notice a new way… For others, it’s first and foremost the gallerist’s eye that’s important to us and the resulting presentation, a presentation that integrates it into a favorable context and highlights the particular qualities of the work. As after a concert, when the sounds still vibrate in the ear, at the end of the visit images float before our eyes. It’s time to get back to our daily lives, to go home and take with us, if possible, a nugget, a concentrate of emotion, the memory of an encounter.
(Françoise Clerc – Villers, November 2014 – excerpt from the book “Ensemble depuis 40 ans”, Editions Galerie Capazza, 2015)
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