Exposition musée Despiau-Wlérick

During the work on the Despiau-Wlérick Museum, the former Dubalen Museum is being transformed to become the Museum Gallery and host an exhibition dedicated to the Mons sculptor Robert Wlérick (1882-1944) from June 6 to December 19. Entitled Robert Wlérick, in search of the model, this exhibition explores the artist's work around the female figure and inaugurates six months of cultural offerings dedicated to the Mons sculptor. Program: FAMILY MUSEUM 2:30 PM/4 PM - Registration required • Like Robert Wlérick A first approach to understanding how a statue is born. A visit around the works present in the temporary exhibition will be followed by a modeling workshop to give room to the imagination and thus create a small statue to take home. Saturday, June 14, 2025, Museum Gallery - 5 Rue Gaston Phoebus + L'Atelier du musée - Halles, ages 5 and up • Discovering Rolande Let's enter the Robert Wlérick exhibition in search of the model to observe the statue Rolande. The children will then go into the workshop to produce a work from an aluminum wire structure. They imagine the posture of their statue, mime the position and then bend the aluminum wire. Finally, they add strips of plaster to give thickness to their creation. Wednesday, June 18, 2025, Museum Gallery - 5 Rue Gaston Phoebus + L'Atelier du musée - Halles, ages 5 and up • Game of the Goose - Special temporary exhibition The principle of the game of the goose is taken up and adapted to the temporary exhibition Robert Wlérick in search of the model, combining reflection, practice and observation. Saturday, June 21, 2025, The Museum Gallery - 5 Rue Gaston Phoebus, ages 5 and up • Introduction to red chalk At the beginning of the session, there will be a time to discover the drawings made by Robert Wlérick. In turn, the children will practice red chalk drawing in the temporary exhibition using the works presented as models. Saturday, June 28, 2025, The Museum Gallery - 5 Rue Gaston Phoebus, ages 7 and up • The female model After a time of discovery and observation of the temporary exhibition, the children will make a model from clay on the theme of the female model, a theme dear to Robert Wlérick. They will discover the material but also the constraints associated with it and will go home with their completed work. Saturday, July 5, 2025, The Museum Gallery - 5 Rue Gaston Phoebus + The Museum Workshop - Halles, ages 7 and up • Pastel sketches Let's discover the drawings of Robert Wlérick in the temporary exhibition. The children will then become the artists of this special time. After a time of sketching in the exhibition, the children will go to the workshop to add colors with the use of pastel. Wednesday July 9, 2025, Museum Gallery - 5 Rue Gaston Phoebus + L'Atelier du musée -Halles, from 5 years old • Water sculpture After a short visit to discover the usual materials worked by Robert Wlérick, the children imagine an artistic composition around an unusual material: water. They assemble, superimpose, align, compose according to their inspiration with this water which takes shape and color. It becomes a plastic element, material “to sculpt”! Wednesday July 23, 2025, L'Atelier du musée - Halles 11 Rue Robert Wlérick, from 5 years old VISITS Group visits from 15 people. By reservation CONFERENCE • Two personalities, one foundation, one unique training, by Alexandra Mérieux Son of a sculptor and grandson of a stonemason, Jean BERNARD (1908-1994) worked both in the artistic field, alongside his father, the sculptor François Pompon, and in the craft world with the foundries. He distinguished himself with his fresco in Millau for the church of Notre-Dame de l'Espinasse, but also his masterpiece, the illustration of the Gospel according to Saint John for which he designed the paper, typography and all the wood for the illustrations. He developed the modern guild system and created the Workers' Association of the Compagnons du Devoir, created by him in 1941, while writing the editorials for the newspaper Le Compagnonnage. In 1949, in the aftermath of the Second World War, men and women disappeared, but also trades. In the context of the reconstruction of France, Jean Bernard was looking for a place to welcome training and young people, in order to preserve trades and know-how. He met Yvonne de Coubertin (1893-1974), heiress to the Coubertin estate and founder of several charities. In 1950, Jean Bernard and Yvonne de Coubertin created an association, "The Coubertin Foundation for the Preservation of Rural Trades." From this meeting was born a foundation consisting of a training center for young professionals in the arts and crafts, master workshops as well as an open-air museum, dedicated to modern and contemporary sculpture Saturday June 7, 2025, 3 p.m., Maison des associations Joëlle Vincens, 1st floor

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