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A new sculpture by Vincent Mauger, created for the Puchot Tower, has just joined the sculpture park.

Since 2007, a set of sculptures both modern and contemporary have been deployed in the exceptional setting of Caen’s medieval castle.

The new artistic installation by Vincent Mauger

La pierre et le sablier (The stone and the hourglass)

Created for the Puchot Tower of Caen's castle, as part of the Millenium, La pierre et le sablier is the result of a public artistic commission. From the footbridge, the visitor is invited to discover a fragment of landscape, a hill, a mount, and in the center a crater, a cavity that seems to dig further as the material that composes it flows down. The bird’s-eye view accentuates the depth effect. This artistic proposal questions our relationship with the place we are in, space, the vertigo of time, in a complex, almost hypnotic visual trick that makes a parallel with the verticality of the tower as well as the depth of History.

Vincent Mauger, La pierre et le sablier, 2025, sculptural works in situ for the Puchot Tower, aluminum modules digitally cut and assembled, various dimensions.

The park's sculptures

The development of this artistic park, fifteen years after its opening, is one of the key elements of a project to requalify and enhance the Château de Caen. It is an extension of the Museum of Fine Arts, so as to expand its contemporary collection of a set of works intended for an outdoor exhibition. After a commission to François Morellet for the museum’s facade, the last purchase, undertaken in 2020 with the support of a public subscription, concerned Lou, the large cast-iron sculpture by Jaume Plensa.
2025, the year of the Millennium of the city of Caen, will also see the creation of two new artworks. The Puchot tower of the castle, closed until then to the public, will reveal an artistic creation commissioned by the City of Caen with the support of the Ministry of culture and communication. Not far from there, in the heart of the park, a monumental work by internationally renowned Danish-Islamic artist Olafur Eliasson will offer a kaleidoscopic view of the sky.
The works scattered in the sculpture park of the castle open new points of view within a site in permanent mutation, a site where the routes remain multiple and mobile, a site that one crosses, visits, picnics in, marvels in, plays in...