Challand Art artworks

Challand Art has 14 Land Art artworks created along the path which leads, from the Villa Lake, in Challand Saint Victor, towards Arlaz pass.

Every artwork is realised with natural materials, most of them brought from the same place or in the Challand Saint Victor territory.

All the artists are from Patta Libra.

Circumference perspectives, a branches binding which links sinuosity and nature.

The artcraft can be seen from two points of view, each one with its  “relative” vision.

The first artwork created in Challand Art is a big trout, as a symbol for the Villa Lake Natural Reserve, close to the eco-track.

The artist who thought the artwork is Marco Della Valle.

The fish is built through wood and iron strings binding technique. The wood has been taken directly by the artists in the forest. It’s ash (Fraxinus excelsior), chestnut (Castanea sativa) and wild cherry (Prunus avium) wood.

The building of the artwork lasted almost 4 months.

Following the track, we can find the second artwork, Matrix, sited in the forest in a little open area, just before the only steep ascent of the track.

Matrix is a big vortex, originated from a reel, in which starts a “string” of liana.

The materials used are wood, iron and plants of Clematis vitalba. This plant is an infesting species, parasite of other plants, with big diffusion on the territory.

The structure is in wood and iron, but all the rest of the artwork is liana, bound in big bundles which create, with a spiral, a 2 metres high and 7 metres long vortex.

This “impact” art work is made up by 107 wood and coloured flowers, held up by iron “stems”. The flowers are at the end of the ascent which lead to the panoramic place on Challand Saint Victor castle.

Although the most part of the art work is focused in this area, you can see big coloured flowers also… from other points of view! Up to you to discover them….

The fourth artwork of Challand Art is a big leaves flow. The leaves weave together among the rocks, through the ascent which leads to the artwork “26 september 1944”. Passing inside of the flow feels like being inside a big “leaves snake” which comes down from the mountain. Following the snake, you’ll pass the steepest part of the path without realising the effort!

Geogenesi is an artwork built entirely with stones. The pack basket from which they come out, represents the start of the human settlement in the nature, which continues with the anthropisation of the places and the use of the nature for human purposes. The stones flow ends symbolising the human abandon of the territory.

The artcraft makes you to meditate on what was used by human people in nature ages and centuries ago that now is abandoned. With an hope of reactivation of the past work.

A big heap of wood surrounds a pine plant, as protecting it. The pine represents the wisdom and the longevity, the old and wise people, the ancient knowledge which we can’t abandon but we have to preserve. The rigidity of the wood creates sinuosity: a wave.

“Boite a terroir” is made up of three big cubes of different sizes, in wood, mainly in chestnut. They are spread in the forest, in a beautiful and calm clearing, where you feel to go inside a little “imaginary” world in which the geometrical shapes melt with trees and earth.

Boite a terroir is an artcraft of “unordered geometry”, which gives a beautiful instant of stop for people who would like to walk there and discover it.

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Wood pendulums which dance among high and slim pines, “La ballade des pendules” is a suspended artcraft. The afternoon is the best situation to see it, because there’s always a soft breeze that makes the pendulums and the pines move, creating a real wood dance. A net among the trees keeps the chestnut segments which form the “pendules”. A magic that you can’t loose!

Coloured pencils for forest artists: an island with multicoloured tones which makes children dream but which has to make adults think about the “night of broken pencils”. 18 pencils with differnt forms and sizes, put in a circolar way around a big pine. A sunny place coloured by artists!

As a gift for a Friend, who has contributed to this artcraft. Dedicated to the power of a place and of the stone located in it. A big monolith and a door to present it to the wayfarers. An artcraft made by stones, born from a natural power.

A bee which looks for a place for its hive. A big responsibility, just for a brave and good heart. The queen who doesn’t lead, but loves, fights and finds a way for all her family which has ever followed and maintained her. Pieces of wood as bees, in a big swarm, pulled by a coloured bee.

River stones as forest souls… A stone crowd which starts from the earth and comes from above.

An artcraft with Mont Avic and its majesty in the background.