Aurélie Nemours' stained glass windows
Contemporary stained glass windows at Salagon.
Renovations of the priory were completed in 1997. In the church, the windows were glazed with plain glass. A decision was taken to hold a competition to commission stained glass windows from a contemporary artist. Entries were received from Pierre Buraglio, James Bishop, Jean-Pierre Bertrand and the competition winner, Aurélie Nemours.
Un des 6 vitraux de l'artiste Aurélie Nemours situé dans la nef principale de l'église romane. Sur le même mur, vous pouvez contempler une peinture anonyme du XVe.
Le rouge profond des vitraux diffuse dans l'église une lumière envoûtante qui redonne vie aux murs romans.
Quand la nuit tombe, les vitraux contemporains donnent fière allure au monument de Salagon.
"La peintre se situe ici même, entre feu et lumière" écrit Aurélie Nemours. L'artiste connue internationalement avait 86 ans quand elle a réalisé les vitraux de Salagon.
Les vitraux d'Aurélie Nemours sont monochromes : rouge pourpre souligné de lignes droites orthogonales tracées au plomb.
Aurélie Nemours, an artist with international fame
Asceticism is the dominant theme of Aurélie Nemours' work. She begins with a figurative image and gradually removes everything she feels to be superficial - figures, then the curves, then the colours. At the end, only the lines and a single colour remain.
The stained glass windows at Salagon
"It begins with the form, it gives the rhythm, and the secret is in the number." Aurélie Nemours was 86 when she created the stained glass windows at Salagon, the culmination of her research. The lead used to set the windows reflects the horizontal and vertical lines which are so important to her work, and give each of the six windows its own particular rhythm. The selenium red used in the windows gives a colour which is unaffected by the state of the sky and the passing clouds. This was the first time it had been used by a stained glass artist.
To see other work by Aurélie Nemours:
- Mouans Sartoux Concrete Art Centre
- Cambrai Fine Art Museum
- City of Rennes:Alignements du XXIe siècle (21st century alignments)