Sculpture trail on the 12 hectares of the estate.
900 m2 of exhibition space within the Château du Plessis-Brion.
Useful information
Château du Plessis-Brion, 2 rue de l’Eglise, 60150 Le Plessis-Brion
1 hour from Paris / 10 minutes from Compiègne
Reception by appointment.
[email protected]
Park & gardens
Monumental sculpture trail
45 sculptures to discover…
Alquin - Charbonnel - Dilitz - Garel - Hopare - Langlois
Liot - Mitoraj - Pelletti - Theimer - Villas - Volti
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Chateau - ground floor & 1st floor
Collective exhibition
Sculptures: Alquin - Caesar - Charbonnel - Couaillier - Dilitz - Garel - Hopare -
Langlois - Lazzari - Liot - Merienne - Mitoraj - Pelletti - Pras - Theimer - Villas
Paintings - Drawings - Diasecs: Caillard - Carrier - Ernest Pignon-Ernest
Garouste - Hopare - Mallart - Merienne - Pras
Furniture - Design: Le Mounier - Mallart
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Chateau - 2nd floor
Hopare - drawings & sculptures
First presentation at the gallery of Hopare, an emerging urban street art artist, with nearly 20 drawings and studies of his frescoes, on the second floor of the castle.
Immerse yourself in its incredible world!
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Hopare: Chateau du Plessis-Brion
Alexandre Monteiro alias Hopare, is a rising figure in French street art. Born in 1989, he spent his childhood in Essonne and discovered graffiti at the age of 13 or 14 in an abandoned factory in the city. At barely 20 years old, he worked for an interior designer who, according to the artist, “influenced my way of drawing, with more and more straight, parallel or intertwining lines”. The artist thus contributes to interior architecture, decoration or textile styling projects.
Hopare signed his first wall in 2006 and joined the TSF Crew (a large-scale street art movement with joint projects and festivals). Accompanied by aerosol cans, brushes, inks or paint rollers, Hopare celebrates aesthetics. Its lines, bordering on perfection, outline geometric and abstract curves. He does not refrain from “freestyle” where improvisation guides his hand. Spontaneity and randomness flow towards the construction of figurative elements of great virtuosity.
A jack of all trades, he likes meetings and collaborations, he appreciates the principle of the artistic residencies that he has been able to do in recent years in Lisbon, Miami, or even with the Réunion des Musées Nationaux in France… He collaborates with the pastry chef François Daubinet, is interested and tries his hand at engraving, ceramics and for several years sculpture... Hopare is an endearing young man, curious about everything... inspiring...
A tireless world traveler, he created a fresco on the facade of the MoMa Gyeonggy in South Korea in 2016. Two years later, he was in Tibet where he had the privilege of painting the entrance wall to the Dalai Lama temple. In 2019, Hopare was invited to Superbowl LIII and created a huge fresco of more than 1000 m2 in Atlanta! In the space of a few years, he can boast of having painted immense frescoes in the four corners of the world... from Aalborg in Denmark, to Detroit, Houston, Westfield, in the United States, via Tunisia , South Korea or Tibet… without obviously forgetting many cities in France (Paris, Grenoble, Strasbourg, Laon, Puteaux, Saint Brieuc…).
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The Chateau du Plessis-Brion.
Just an hour from Paris and ten minutes from Compiègne, the Château du Plessis-Brion is located in the heart of a 12-hectare park including a lake, forest, ditches, islet, etc. on the edge of the Laigue national forest.
Established since spring 2022 in this magnificent setting, the Bayart gallery has set up a route of monumental sculptures within the wooded park, a route which is gradually expanding with, for this new season, 45 works to discover...
The castle, of great sobriety, is the only Renaissance castle in the region. Classified as a Historic Monument, it includes exceptional architectural elements ranging from vaulted cellars from the Merovingian era to fortified towers.
Its large surface area - almost 1,500 m2 - and its ceiling height of five meters on the ground floor and first floor allow large-scale exhibitions, while extending the route of monumental works inside the castle …
