In Gagaland, 80 wacky sculptures transform the Pomarède campaign into a fantastic museum

A few minutes from Castelnaudary. Meanwhile, at the place of the Pomarède, a parallel world was discreetly flourished under oaks: Gagaland. Furthermore, Behind this strange name. In addition, contraction of cake and Garnier, the names of artists from Sophie and David, hides an extraordinary artistic garden, populated by a host of creatures as funny as it is strained, born of clay, wood, metal or stone.

For its fourth edition. Furthermore, Gagaland is now organized around a route marked out in fifteen stations, punctuated by around 80 sculptures. Each corner of gagaland, 80 wacky sculptures transform the field becomes a scene, theater or altar. Among the most striking: a singer siren with capricious memory. a “gendarme of the brigade of flying squirrels”, or the famous “winged hens”, recurring figures of the fantasy bestiary of the duo. We also discover a “Sagraga Familia”. a sort of odds and ends, a joyful tribute to Gaudí, shaped with rusty tools, metal strawberries and gleaned objects.

Sophie Model Clay The clay with expressive precision, which it declines in human faces, talkative animals or Buddhist frogs. His terracotta, freezing resistant, are thought of for the outside. David Garnier. carpenter by training, wood sculpt and scrap, shapes living trees, assembles, diverts, pupil of burlesque totems or improbable giants. Between them, they form a world, nourished by recovery, raw poetry and contagious fantasy.

Gagaland is not only an open -air museum: it is also a place of life. Some Sundays, the garden becomes gagaland, 80 wacky sculptures transform a place of expression for organized concerts. The next one, scheduled for August 31, will welcome “Le Barda” a Toulouse musician in full ascent. On site, games for children, picnic areas and a small shop complete the experience. Visitors. sometimes surprised to feel so quickly transported, often leave with a child’s smile and some dream grams in their pockets.