The orchard of maturities by Thierry Boutonnier
Since 2022, as part of the Pays de l’Arbresle’s “Les murmures du Temps” art trail, Thierry Boutonnier has been sending…
CATALOG OF THE TEN YEARS OF THE INTERNATIONAL GARDEN FESTIVAL – HORTILLONAGES AMIENS
Lauranne Germond, director of COAL, contributes to this retrospective work through a text on the art of resilience. The catalog revisits the landscape and plastic productions realized for the International Garden Festival – Hortillonages Amiens since its creation in 2010.
Image credits: Stéphane Larcin et Baptiste Demeulemeester, Cabotans maraîchers, Festival international de jardins 2019. © Art & jardins – Yann Monel
Published on 24 May 2022
ABOUT THE INTERNATIONAL GARDEN FESTIVAL – HORTILLONNAGES AMIENS
The International Garden Festival – Hortillonnages Amiens, has the mission to support and promote young landscape, architectural and artistic creation through a program rich in innovation and poetry. In 12 editions, 182 gardens and installations were produced by 272 landscape designers, visual artists and architects, and enjoyed by more than 450,000 walkers.
The public is also made aware of this natural heritage through meetings and workshops. The festival also gives its environmental commitment a solidarity dimension, by distributing food produced on the site, and by engaging in a social integration process with the agents of the integration site for the maintenance of the gardens and the civic service volunteers for the reception. As such, the festival is co-financed by the European Social Fund within the framework of the National Operational Program “Employment and Inclusion” 2014-2020.
PROGRAMMING OF THE 13th EDITION FROM MAY 26 TO OCTOBER 16, 2022
Among the 46 installations presented, the 2022 program revealed 12 new creations, including 2 projects by students from the UFR des Arts of the Université Picardie Jules Verne and a photographic installation in partnership with the Institut pour la photographie des Hauts-de-France in the context of Lille 3000/UTOPIA. On foot or in a boat, walkers could discover these works and installations along a route spread over a natural site of over 300 hectares in Amiens. Permanent landscape creations in the Somme Valley complete this program beyond Amiens, on the banks of the river in Long and Abbeville, and in the urban landscape of Saint-Quentin.
By offering visitors the opportunity of an aesthetic experience in a natural environment, the International Garden Festival – Hortillonnages Amiens, transcends the polarities between nature, culture, agriculture and heritage, in order to take into account our relationship with the territory, its history and its future, in the reflections related to climate issues. The preservation of ecosystems, the fragility of riverbanks, water resources, food production and the quality of food are among the themes raised by the works of this festival.
The article “Rice, Art and Burial” written by Lauranne Germond, Director of COAL, echoes this “art of resilience” in the 4th opus of artistic and landscape creations of the International Garden Festival – Hortillonnages Amiens. An order form and a few pages of this book can be found here!
