THE RADIANT FORTNIGHT 17

The Radiant Fortnight #17 - 21 June > 27 July 2025

THE RADIO QUINZAINE #17 - From 21 June to 27 July 2025

NATSUKO UCHINO Tin wedding
LAPIN-CANARD Does artists' posters
WE DO NOT WORK ALONE Usual objects by artists

Exhibitions open Saturdays and Sundays from 2.30 pm to 6 pm
CONTEMPORARY ART - ARCHITECTURE
ESPACE BEZARD - LE CORBUSIER
Free admission

GRAND OPENING WEEKEND

Saturday 21 June from 6pm
Concert ELASTIC SYSTEMS
+ DMC with students from the TALM Le Mans art and design school + Pellegrini Sound System + DJ Pierre Pasmal aka DJ PP + Dj rue des Menuts
Jardin du Moulin, La Barbagato snack bar / Refreshment bar / Booking recommended
Sunday 22 June at 11.30am
Concert TROMPES D'ECOUVES,
Hunting trumpets on Big Stump, based on a proposal by Stéphane Vigny
La Chapelle Saint-Léger, Shared meal following the concert
Booking recommended

Sunday 13 July at 4.30pm
Gaëlle Guérange Companyr, Margo.
Performance: Word, Story, Dance.
Île du du Moulin

Free, conscious pricing for each event / Free for members / Membership €20
Booking recommended


NATSUKO UCHINO

Tin wedding
Black barn

Natsuko Uchino is an artist and teacher of sculpture and ceramics at the École supérieure d'art et de design TALM - Le Mans.
Born in Japan in 1983, she graduated from The Cooper Union in New York in 2007 and from the Kitakyushu Contemporary Art Center Research Program in Japan in 2012. In 2007, she co-founded Art and Agriculture, on a forested site in upstate New York. This agrarian and cultural initiative set out to defend a contributive polyculture: autonomous diversified agricultural production and interdisciplinary residencies.
Natsuko Uchino's practice interweaves experiences in agriculture and craft, combining art with ecology, food and conviviality in the use of ceramics. Her work takes the form of installations, films and performances combining multiple materials - from sculpture to functional objects and living things.

Invited in 2016 with Maroussia Rebecq for the 8th edition of La Quinzaine radieuse, Natsuko Uchino designed an open-air kitchen with an open fireplace, giving rise to a memorable banquet. Keramikos. For this year's edition, she is taking over the Grange Noire for a brand new exhibition.

LAPIN-CANARD

Does artists' posters
Moulin de Blaireau

LAPIN-CANARD is an artists' poster publishing house founded on 1 May 2015 in Belleville. Lapin-Canard gives carte blanche to artists whose work it loves to produce a poster in a unique A0 format. Each new release is the occasion for a party including music, libations and dancing. This production-celebration-distribution model has enabled Lapin-Canard, for whom art is inextricably linked with human interaction, to multiply its collaborations and share its choices with a wide audience.
To date, Lapin-Canard has organised more than 40 festivals and published more than 200 posters in collaboration with artists of all shapes and sizes. After Paris, Berlin, Hamburg, Poitiers, Geneva, Toulouse and Bordeaux, Lapin-Canard is delighted to be joining forces with Piacé le radieux to celebrate the launch of the 17th edition of La Quinzaine radieuse by creating a new series of posters!

SIMON BOUDVIN / LILIAN BOURGEAT/ FRANCOIS CURLET/JULIETTE FABERT / AURÉLIE FERRUEL & FLORENTINE GUÉDON / MATHILDE GANANCIA / DOMINIQUE GONZALEZ-FOERSTER / LAURENT GOUMARRE / SEVERINE HUBARD / CHLOE QUENUM / MAÊLLE LEDAUPHIN / JEAN-PHILIPPE LHONNEUR / MRZYK & MORICEAU / JEAN-LUC MOULENE / CELESTE RICHARD-ZIMMERMANN / NATSUKO UCHINO


WE DO NOT WORK ALONE

Usual objects by artists
Espace Bézard-Le Corbusier, Kub d'Or

WE DO NOT WORK ALONE produces limited editions of everyday objects designed by artists.
WE DO NOT WORK ALONE offers artists a departure from their usual practice by confronting them with the question of functionality and use. Drawing on traditional or industrial know-how, these everyday objects are produced on a case-by-case basis, according to procedures defined in collaboration with the artist.
WE DO NOT WORK ALONE is a fresh attempt to answer the age-old question of the links between art and everyday life.
WE DO NOT WORK ALONE is also the title of the collection of thoughts on artistic creation by Japanese potter Kawai Kanjiro.

CONTEMPORARY ART TRAIL

47 works (installations / sculptures / microarchitectures) in and around Piacé.

Piacé le radieux regularly invites artists, architects and designers to explore the links between modernity and rurality. A trail of forty-seven works (microarchitectures, sculptures, installations, etc.) is accessible all year round in the village and surrounding countryside, extending as far as the neighbouring communes of Juillé and Beaumont-sur-Sarthe.

A.U.A. / JOËL AUXENFANS / NEAL BEGGS / JEAN BONICHON / LILIAN BOURGEAT / RONAN BOUROULLEC / GEORGES CANDILIS / JACQUES CARCHON & JEAN FOURNIER / DAVID MICHAEL CLARKE / FRANÇOIS CURLET / FLORENCE DOLÉAC / FRANCE FICTION / RAPHAËL GALLEY / VIDYA GASTALDON / JEF GEYS / IBAI HERNANDORENA / KENJI HARAI / SÉVERINE HUBARD / PIERRE HUYGHE / JACQUES JULIEN / LE CORBUSIER / MARC LESCHELIER / THOMAS MAILAENDER / JEAN BENJAMIN MANEVAL / ENZO MARI / CAROLINE MESQUITA / NICOLAS MILHÉ / ANITA MOLINERO / MRZYK & MORICEAU / DANIEL NADAUD / CLAUDE PARENT / JEAN PROUVÉ / CHRISTIAN RAGOT / HUGUES REIP / PASCAL RIVET / JEAN BAPTISTE SAUVAGE / CHRISTOPHE TERLINDEN / DAVID DE TSCHARNER / STÉPHANE VIGNY / JOCELYN VILLEMONT / LOIS WEINBERGER / CHARLIE YOULE & BEVIS MARTIN

ESPACE BEZARD - LE CORBUSIER

For the duration of La Quinzaine radieuse, the Espace Bézard- Le Corbusier will be open to the public on Saturdays and Sundays from 2.30pm to 6pm. This space is dedicated to the utopian project of the Radiant Farm and Cooperative Village imagined in the 1930s by Norbert Bézard and Le Corbusier to develop the countryside. Plans, models, archives and more retrace the history of this project. The exhibition also features ceramics, drawings and paintings by Norbert Bézard and photographs by Lucien Hervé.