For the master glassmaker, the end-of-year festivities were above all the religious celebration of Christmas. For the artist, one plant dressed up for a surrealist New Year’s Eve. Here she is, as a crayfish. As for New Year’s Eve, he imagined it deep in the forest…
The year 2024 will mark 100 years of Surrealism. This is an opportunity to present the works of Charles Carrère. At the end of the day, the master glassworker will be switching activities to surprise us with his works, some of which will take us back to surrealism.
In 1987 Charles Carrère received a call from Reunion Island. It was a friend, Father Émile Baptiste, who asked him to send photos of the stained glass windows he had made in the Basque Country. And so began the Reunion adventure…
Charles Carrère created three stained glass windows for the church of Saint Léon de Marracq in Bayonne. A leaded stained glass window located behind the baptismal font and two glass slabs located on either side of the altar inside the choir.
It is a story that ends on a positive note despite the artist’s death. At the beginning of 2022 Charles Carrère found himself at the top of the poster on the kakemono installed on the façade of the Basque Museum and History of Bayonne.
