After our annual pilgrimage to Perpignan in September for Visa pour l’Image, we generally stay a week in the department of l’Hérault which is situated just north of Perpignan, of which Montpellier is the principle city.
The north of the department is the southern edge of the Cevennes, which is a National Park, and the gorges and general landscapes are completely different from the area in which we live, and we love the contrast.
For the past three years we have visited a series of sculptures, plonked down in the countryside during the summer months. They change each year, and there are usually six, and we try to find them all…
The Wolf – 2015
The Flying Man – 2016
This year, however, this circuit does not exist, which is a shame, but there is something new…
An architect called Christophe Benichou has built a large metal cube, and placed it at the top of the Pic St Loup
According to his website « Un cube en équilibre précaire, sur le point de basculer dans le vide, une sculpture minimaliste, impressionnante et intrigante : c’est ainsi que le projet se présente dans le grand paysage »
« A precariously balancing cube, on the point of falling into space, a minimaliste sculpture, impressive and intriguing: it’s how this project is presented in the landscape »
I think it looks very interesting – albeit somewhat daunting for those with vertigo!
We will definitely have to add this to our ‘do list’…