Discover Régis Perray’s exhibition Les petites fleurs de l’Apocalypse (1918–2018) from May to October 2026 in the shop at the Château de la Ballue gardens.
Every year, the Château de la Ballue invites you to explore the world of an artist through an exhibition, in partnership with the Superflux Contemporary Art Centre in Bazouges-la-Pérouse.
This year, the artist Régis Perray presents an exhibition commissioned by the Domaine national du château d’Angers, to mark the centenary of the end of the First World War. A preview of his artistic residency at Superflux in spring 2027.
The exhibition consists of a collection of flowers cut from wallpaper, inspired by the floral motifs found on the Tapestry of the Apocalypse, housed at the Château d’Angers. It was created with the assistance of the l’atelier d’Offard, founded by François-Xavier Richard, a former student of the École des Beaux-Arts d’Angers and a wallpaper manufacturer in Tours.
The term ‘apocalypse’ is often associated with the horrors of the Great War, given how the human suffering depicted in the Tapestry and in the New Testament text that inspired it finds an echo in that terrible conflict.
But the primary meaning of the word ‘Apocalypse’ is ‘Revelation’—that of a new, better world. This is what Régis Perray sought to convey with this evocation of flowers sprouting anew on the battlefields and in the trenches after four years of horrific conflict.
Thus, like a gardener marking the centenary of the end of the war, the artist plucks flowers from the Tapestry and transposes them onto wallpaper. He then individualises them, making them grow at the foot of walls in various towns… until finally planting them at the Château de la Ballue.
We invite you to come and discover his work in the shop of the gardens of the Château de la Ballue, open daily from 10am to 6.30pm until 27 September 2026, then from Thursday to Sunday from 10am to 6pm in October 2026. Régis Perray’s works can be purchased there.
