Meeting with Gonzague Mezin (HEC 05), creator of the Maison Lignereux who is exhibiting at Versailles as part of the Louis XV exhibition
HEC Culture Club and HEC Ile-de-France West Club are pleased to invite you to an exceptional afternoon in the privileged setting of the exhibition "Louis XV, Tastes and Passions of a King" to meet the youngest contemporary designer exhibited at the Château de Versailles: Gonzague Mézin (HEC 05), creator of the Maison Lignereux.
Gonzague began his career at the Chateau of Versailles, then at Sotheby's, before working with a cabinetmaker and then as an art insurer: with this rich background, in 2015, he decided to revive Lignereux, an 18th-century luxury house specializing in the creation of art objects.
Lignereux is a collective dedicated to exceptional art objects. From workshops to studios, Lignereux, under the leadership of Gonzague, collectively assembles its art objects. "I imagine, from extraordinary know-how, contemporary art objects" he summarizes. Materials and gestures meet, and minds and hands unite. Through words and tools, ancestral and contemporary skills are deployed in new forms. "Beauty is a medium that surprises and shakes us up for the benefit of a conceptual approach: a disturbing material that questions reality and the human condition. In such a perspective, the function of the Lignereux object becomes secondary. Basically, our pieces are as much about craft as they are about philosophy."
As part of the exhibition "Louis XV, tastes and passions of a king" at the Palace of Versailles, presenting 400 works revealing the man behind the monarch, but also his attachment to the arts, the organizers of the exhibition wanted to address the symbolic posterity of the Beloved through a current piece. Thus they invited Lignereux to imagine a monumental proposal: ""After us, the flood", inspired by a royal apocryphal quotation, is an installation in porcelain, gilded bronze and mirrors composed of twenty objects never shown to the public, explains Gonzague Mézin. It speaks of Louis XV, of his responsibility, but also of Versailles, this political construction crystallizing certain typically French tensions: the pride of being the custodians of a fabulous monument, but also the indignation aroused by the privileges of the wealthy..."
We will have the pleasure of discovering the exhibition and this creation with Gonzague, before meeting again for a moment of conviviality: the exchanges will continue in the company of the Society of the Friends of Versailles which is doing us the honor of welcoming us in a privileged space.
Saturday, January 28, 2023 at 1:30 pm | meeting on site at 1 pm
on registration only
meeting on site from 1:00 pm
Nathalie Vaguer and Claire Hazart, co-presidents of the Culture Club
Laurent Blondeau, President of the Ile de France West Club
