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Pushing the door of the art and history workshop Memento TemporiBazouges-la-Pérouse (Ille-et-Vilaine), bu a real museum of sculptures a journey through time, which the visitor discovers.
Dozens of antique titles are lined up on shelves that go up to the ceiling. A few meters ahead, the showroom incredible wealth testifies to the skills of the house.
Here is hidden one of the rarest and most unusual know-hows of exceptional French craftsmanship: reproduction of archaeological works pottery belonging to various ancient civilizations. Memento Temporï can also be translated from Latin as “remembering the passage of time”…
From the Louvre to the British Museum
Prestigious clients such as Le Louvre (Paris), the British Museum (London), the Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles) and the Rijksmuseum Van Oudheden (Leiden, Netherlands) are among the latest sponsors.
These museums sell again reproductions in their stores. Memento Temporï is also available from major hotels, galleries, etc. can respond to orders.
“We have just delivered reproductions to Leiden Maya and Merit Executed from originals from the 18th dynasty The pinnacle of Egyptian art What they knew how to cut the most, explains Patrick Arnal, workshop director. One of our most unusual orders at the moment was delivered in September. »
Maya was a high-ranking official of ancient Egypt, a contemporary of Tutankhamun (born about -1345 BC, died -1327 BC). Merit was his wife.
Alone in Europe?
Memorial Tempori he also sells his works to individuals, on the site or via the Internet. Because this is the specialty of the place: to be able to make faithful copies of the original in the know-how tradition handed down from ancestors. Exactly… like a faker’s job.
“All our reproductions are like that hand crafted and decorated They reproduce the pigments used by our artisans and in the same way by ancient civilizations,” explains Patrick Arnal.
A team of five or six people works. They contribute to the international reputation of the enterprise, which can compete with the Asian market:
As far as I know, we are the only workshop in France and Europe that can achieve this level of detail in his creations. This is one of the secrets of the raw white pottery we used and which is almost impossible to find today.
Soon in the Vatican and the Prado?
Patrick Arnal says that the story of Memento Tempori was born out of passion. From the age of 7, he already had a dream To be an Egyptologist. “I fell in love with ancient Egypt after seeing the so-called peplum The land of the pharaohs and the subject was the construction of the Cheops pyramid. »
A cheat skill this trained historian who creates the company In 2005 together with his partner Denis Hanifi. Memento Temporï is enjoying now a prestigious partnership both in France and abroad, where the company generates two-thirds of its turnover.
We are in talks to create commissioned pieces with the Vatican Museum, the Prado Museum in Madrid or the Egyptian Museum in Barcelona.
“We just did it for the Rijksmuseum Van Oudheden, with a 50cm reproduction of the sybil. We went to 3D scan it in the Netherlands and finally produced it in our premises in Bazouges-la-Pérouse”, continues the manager.
Living heritage company label
Patrick Arnal and Denis Hafini also compiled a file to obtain Living Heritage Company label.
A new string bow that could increase the prestige of this Breton company with know-how valued across the oceans. In any case, with such a course, all hope is allowed!
Memento Temporï will appear in the first part of the evening of the French national edition on February 3, in a documentary series planned for February. My Perfect Life.
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