Domain of Chaumont-sur-Loire Centre for Arts and Nature opens for spring season
(Artdaily.org)

Twelve artists have been invited to Chaumont-sur-Loire for this new Art and Nature season, over which dream and poetry reign supreme. The Château’s west and south wings are exhibiting dreamlike landscapes by the great Chinese artist and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature Gao Xingjian, entitled Appel pour une nouvelle Renaissance (Call for a New Renaissance). 2019 sees the return of the Ghanaian artist El Anatsui, with a new installation of rivercraft masterfully upended across from the Loire, symbols of the “forgotten boatmen” who plied their trade at the service of humankind, materials and ideas... In the Donkey Stables, the Brazilian artist Janaina Mello Landini ’s ghostly forest of braided ropes is an immaculate silent reflection of the agonies of trees too often subjected to the violence of humankind. Faithful to his