Centre d'Art et de Photographie

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Closed

Monday Closed
Tuesday Closed
Wednesday 02:00 pm - 06:00 pm
Thursday 02:00 pm - 06:00 pm
Friday 02:00 pm - 06:00 pm
Saturday 02:00 pm - 06:00 pm
Sunday Closed

Opens Wednesday at 02:00 pmDetailed schedules

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Location : Town

Province : Pau and its surroundings, the Jurançon and Madiran vineyards

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- The Photographic Summer Festival is an unmissable highlight of the annual program of the Lectoure Art and Photography Center which works daily, in the Gers in Occitanie, to create, share an artistic project and participate in the cultural dynamics of this rural territory, with a permanent concern for high artistic standards. Each year, this summer event deployed in several emblematic places of Lectourois heritage, invites visitors to discover temporary exhibitions and one-off events in atypical places, real catalysts of creativity, field of observation, experimentation and sharing. for artists, teams and visitors.
  
  For the 34th edition of its Photographic Summer Festival, the Center for Art and Photography in Lectoure invites you to “Bring the future to life” with exhibition curator Émilie Flory. This one invited about twenty artists from France but also from Germany, Belgium, Belarus, Spain, USA… A step aside to play at building utopian worlds…
  
  From July 16 to September 18, every day except Tuesday from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m.
  Do not miss the vernissage open to all on Saturday July 16 from 8 p.m. on the Bastion promenade.
  On-site catering and DJ evening to celebrate the start of L'été photo with dignity!
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Traveller Reviews Google Centre d'Art et de Photographie

4.2 sur 5 61 reviews

5 sur 5 Reviews posted by Tim & Valerie Putnam on 09/02/2018

Organises outstanding summer long multi venue photography exhibitions, can just about be seen in a long afternoon.
5 sur 5 Reviews posted by Jerome Poisson on 04/07/2018

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1 sur 5 Reviews posted by Fred on 23/01/2023

This Lectoure ART and Photography Center is a bit like the local Beaubourg but without the pipes, Buren without its columns, Fantasia among the Hicks, a Light in the darkness of a population weaned from rugby from an early age, to bodegas where towels are turned and whose musical culture is limited to bandas... In fact, the misunderstanding may be found in the very title of the project: Center d'ART above all, where photography is only a word and has no longer had its place for a long time. Do not expect to find there those moments of Eternity which make the magic of photography displayed on supports worthy of them. No, these will be shots worthy of the first smartphone to come as an illustration of agreed remarks. Invited "VIP" in 2021 of an exhibition entitled "workers in logistics", the show was not on the walls, but in the public of these Germanopratin Lectourois, all these old wigs nostalgic for France in Tonton, s self-satisfying, with tears in your eyes, to be in between yourself. Ah, dear Balzac, admirable despiser of the Comédie Humaine, why weren't you there... This Contemporary Art Center to give it its true name (a contemporaneity frozen for nearly 80 years...) is therefore the local contribution to Art Pompier, Institutional Art financed and commissioned from public funds, a poetic Ode to None, and the homage of the City of Lectoure to Bernard Arnault who is a great Amateur and Benefactor of Humanity according to the latest Forbes ranking...