Centre international d'art et du paysage de l'île de Vassivière
F - 87120 Ile de Vassivière
tel: +33 (0)5 55 69 27 27
fax: +33 (0)5 55 69 29 31
e-mail : info@ciapiledevassiviere.com
www.ciapiledevassiviere.com
Opening
From June to October : everyday from 11 am to 7 pm
From November to June : from 11 am to 1 pm, 2pm to 6 pm (except on Monday)
Closed on 25 December, 1 January
Offices open from monday to friday from to 10 am to 1 pm, 2 pm to 6 pm
Fare
full ticket: 3 euros/reduced ticket: 1,5 euros over 12 years, students, unemployed/free: under 12 years, disabled and their companions, Friends of the Centre international d'art et du paysage, members of the Artothèque
Venue
Vassivière Island is 60 km east from Limoges, on the route to Beaumont-du-Lac between the departments of Haute-Vienne and Creuse.
By car: From the north (Paris): highway A20 direction: Limoges, after Limoges exit 35 direction: Feytiat/Eymoutiers, then Beaumont-du-Lac, Lac de Vassivière, Ile de Vassivière.
From the south (Toulouse): highway A20, north of Uzerche exit 42 direction: «Lac de Vassivière» to Eymoutiers then Beaumont-du-Lac, Lac de Vassivière, Ile de Vassivière.
By train: From Limoges take the train to Eymoutiers train station, direction: Ussel/Clermont-Ferrand. The Centre international d'art et du paysage is 15 km away from Eymoutiers, then taxi (Eymoutiers taxis: phone (+33) 05 55 69 12 04).
By plane: International airport Limoges Bellegarde.
Press Contact
Frédéric Legros
tel: +33 (0)5 55 69 27 27
fax: +33 (0)5 55 69 29 31
e-mail : communication@ciapiledevassiviere.com
The park of sculptures
The park of sculptures is free and open all year round. It has been developed over the years since the very first artistic project took place on the island. French and international artists are invited regularly to produce and place a work in the park: Adel Abdessemed, Marco Boggio Sella, Andy Goldsworthy, Olivier Mosset, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Michael Sailstorfer...
Contact : Guillaume Baudin
tel: +33 (0)5 55 69 27 27
e-mail : info@ciapiledevassiviere.com
The documentation
The documentation with its 12 000 works and the bookshop with a selection of art books, architecture, landscape and gardens, catalogues, multiples of artists, postcards and selections of works in connection with the exhibitions, publications of the Centre international d'art et du paysage can be ordered by post at the bookshop and will be dispatched against reception of payment.
Contact : Guillaume Baudin (accueil-librairie) et Madeline Dupuy (documentation)
tel: +33 (0)5 55 69 27 27
e-mail : librairie@ciapiledevassiviere.com / documentation@ciapiledevassiviere.com
The educational service
The educational service proposes all year round various teaching activities adapted to the requests of the partners of national education and associations: meeting-visits with accompanying notes of the exhibitions, the building and the park of sculptures; visits, workshops, artistic initiation and animations around the relay of the Limousin's artothèque.
Contact : Madeline Dupuy et Jean-Christophe Radke
tel: +33 (0)5 55 69 27 27
e-mail : pedagogie@ciapiledevassiviere.com
The artothèque relay
The artothèque relay has a permanent collection of original prints, photographs and drawings: as in a library, they are consultable on the spot and can be borrowed. The artothèque relay proposes laboratories of understanding of contemporary art.
Contact : Madeline Dupuy et Jean-Christophe Radke
tel: +33 (0)5 55 69 27 27
e-mail : artotheque@ciapiledevassiere.com