Capturing the ephemeral.
An art collector, Laurent Dumas is keen to combine his passion for art and wine. There's something obvious about bringing together artistic expression and the craftsman's gesture, both of which awaken the senses. A first manifestation of this dialogue is to be found in the design of Domaine de la Chapelle labels, which for each vintage is entrusted to a young artist from the pool of artists revealed by a springboard grant created by Laurent Dumas.
David Festoc
Interprets the 2023 vintage.
A painter from Nantes trained at the Pivaut school, David Festoc has been exploring the fields of free figurative painting for the past 5 years. "My painting is built on ambivalence and a cohabitation of the real and the fake. When you look at my paintings, you have to have a doubt.
At first glance naive and colorful, the artist's paintings encourage questioning and the search for meaning and narrative. It is in this discrepancy with a familiar vision that doubt is born in the viewer's mind. For Domaine de la Chapelle's 2023 vintage, the artist has imagined a large, bucolic setting, a labyrinth of characters involved in the wine-making process.
Here, rows of vines grow around a thousand-year-old tree, while a mischievous grape-picker steals bunches from his neighbor's basket. Further on, birds flee with the precious berries in their beaks, while elsewhere a vine is reborn, supported by a plethora of stakes. An ode to work in the fields, to the sometimes difficult relationship between nature and man, the work presents a multitude of facets, snapshots of life.
Raphaëlle Peria
Performs the vintage 2024.
Trained at the École des Beaux-Arts de Lorient, Raphaëlle Peria has been exploring the question of memory and absence in her work for many years. Her work draws on a variety of techniques. Firstly, photography, which freezes the moment that is then patiently purified, scratched and erased by the gesture of a scalpel. The materiality of the paper reappears, delicate shavings accumulate and "take the photograph into relief".
Landscapes, natural elements and ecosystems are at the heart of his artistic approach and are the starting points for his travels. The technique of scratching, of removal, calls up the memory of the presence of living beings. Certain parts of the image are kept intact, creating changes of scale that impact the textures developed by the art of scraping.
Raphaëlle Peria invites us to take a fresh look at the images that attract us from afar. A second reading leads us to discover what lies behind the beauty of the worlds we try to recreate at home. Here, his works create an environment that is both fragile and fascinating. By acting directly on her support, the artist reveals the state of a natural environment that is gradually altering.