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, in the form of a labyrinth where the characters involved in making the wine evolve.

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.