Abbaye de Boscodon: 1,000 years of history, remarkable architecture, an exceptional forest, a museum for everyone
Surprisingly, in its mineral and vegetal setting, the abbey appears like a moored ship.
Like a whispered invitation, the tour immerses visitors in the medieval mentality.
A spiritual universe between the visible, the veiled and the invisible?
Between architectural and musical aesthetics?
A quest for meaning between faith and reason?
The threshold, an invitation to enter
The guide pauses in front of the gate. He signifies the passage between the profane and the sacred, and then walks slowly into the sanctuary.
The visitor's gaze skirts the bare walls, coming to rest on the crossless Christ at the bedside, revealing even more of the edifice's total bareness.
Immensity of space, silence and depth
Visitors seem to wonder: can they hear the murmur of breathing stone? Do they let themselves be inhabited by silence or carried away by the resounding chant of the monks?
In this enveloping space, light reveals itself, shadow extends it: against all duality, unity and harmony seem omnipresent.
Bare and naked
Nothing... no stained-glass windows, sculptures or frescoes. Without representative images, the guide opens a few doors to interlocking worlds: geometric shapes, numbers, Romanesque architecture, Cistercian art. He suggests a symbolism in which the listener and viewer are free to choose their own representations.
©: Nathalie Gouet, Jean Mansir, Alain Bellet
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