On June 24, 1984 at 12pm, Joseph Beuys and James Lee Byars presented to an attentive audience. ‘The introduction of the Sages to the Alps’ an event organised by Marc Hostettler that inaugurated the first season of Furkart. Forty years later , we invite you to (re)discover this special day with the presentation at Maison Routier in Saint-Cirq-Lapopie of a documentary exhibition , proposed by Thomas Rodriguez and Archive Furkablick Furkart.

Poop Philosophy in four words :

‘I hate French theory’

Cédric Fargues , 2023.

Carlos Aires ingeniously recreated the renowned ‘Portrait of André Breton’ masks, originally captured by Man Ray in 1930, using paper and cardboard. For the last edition of Parade, the public event in 2023, Aires exhibited 50 unique self made masks. This intervention was documented in photographs taken both by the artist himself and members of the ‘masked’ audience.

‘I imagined a project. In order to overturn Musil's observation, I wanted to create a monument dedicated to oblivion as much as to self-denial, to the one who 'almost made it.' An allegory of the anonymous, Collins more than anyone else was the first man not to walk on the Moon. I tried to contact him by sending letters to NASA and to the publisher of his autobiography. The idea was to create a casting of his foot (probably the left one) instead of a bust, make a bronze or aluminum cast of it, and then bury it somewhere in secret. In the Pech-Merle cave, a few kilometers from Saint-Cirq-Lapopie, there is a fossilized footprint of a child. A left foot. A 'vestigium pedis' (a term that refers to the representation of the trace left by Prophets or saints and which constitutes a relic). The child slipped in the mud, no one ever passed by there again, and time turned the mud into stone. You can visit the cave, which I did for the first time when I was five or six years old. The guide had pointed out to me: "you see: he was your age 25,000 years ago." It is the only memory I have of the visit.’

NB, 2023

For the first and second edition of ‘Parade,the public event’ Guillaume Bijl contributed one of his signature works called Sorry. A ‘Sorry’ is one of the five categories into wich Guillaume Bijl organises his work. Each ‘Sorry’ is a mildly surrealistic, humorous assemblage of found objects, blending the ordinary with the absurd in a way that chalenges traditional notions of art and reality. ‘Sorry’ 2021 was shown in the Nightshop of Radicale1924, where the artist was present and available for informal conversations with guests and visitors.

‘When in Saint-Cirq-Lapopie one cannot resist the landscape. On cloudy days the colours are deep until the fog embraces the valley, then everything becomes muted. In Maison Routier I’ve seen many small paintings of Daniel Adrien Routier, where I recognise the colours and the shapes that I experienced myself. The small format of the works allows one to quickly catch a short moment, even when it comes back as a memory.’ excerpt from interview Simona Mihaela Stoia & Tamara Beheydt, 2023.

Simona Mihaela Stoia carefully chose this painting by Daniel Adrien Routier ‘Astaffort’ (1917) engaging in a dialogue with her contemporary artistic practice.

On the first floor we present a selection of works by Daniel Adrien Routier. Routier’s landscape paintings stand out for their highly developed sense of composition and the choice of wild color patches. His oil paintings reflect his love for the rolling landscapes of the Dordogne, the seaside of Spain and Oran as well as the ancient beauty of Saint-Cirq-Lapopie.

In 2022, Nienke presented ‘Meta-Stones’ in the last original woodturning shop of Saint-Cirq-Lapopie, featuring a collection of rocks found in the surrounding nature of the village by Nienke. Through her sculptures, he subtly manipulates the viewer’s perception, transforming these rocks into ‘Meta-Stones’ ——a meta landscape where time is ensnared within itself, stones trying to preserve stones.

For Maison Routier, Samyra Moumouh & Hans Demeulenaer chose to present this single object fitting to the house, titled ‘Kucia’. This piece is based on the sculptural work of Peter Shire. ‘Kucia’ is part of a larger sculptural ensemble that they presented during the first exhibition at Maisons Daura, titled ‘A Good Circle Makes A Good Square’ (2024)

Pieter Van der Schaaf invited the inhabitants of Saint-Cirq-Lapopie to send him a photo of their pets, and subsequently printed them on pizza boxes, which could travel throughout the village for deliveries. A participative project, spotlights the non-human inhabitants of the village and also food as a connecting medium, transcending nationalities and cultures.

In the Nightshop of Maison Routier , Idris Sevenans presents his first artistic manifestation with the project ‘Tour de Zwanze’. This work features an imaginary bike tour between the Museum of René Magritte in Brussels and Maison André Breton in Saint-Cirq-Lapopie. It consist of a video, a bike and a costume.