Open every day From April to October: 9 a.m. - 6 p.m. From November to March: 10 a.m. - 4.30 p.m.	!!! Attention: this exhibition is over. Hanneke Beaumont - Sculptures From the 30th of June until the 21st of October 2007 Hanneke Beaumont’s sculpted characters take stage at the castle of Gruyères. Sometimes solitary, often placed in groups, they state timeless values in a modern language - courage, melancholy, human relations - and rescale, the time of an exhibition, the rooms of the site. In perpetual emergence, the gesturing of the figures contrast with the roughness of the ancestral architecture. The expressions and gazes, subtle and accomplished, open up new perspectives to the landscape. The plastic approach of the artist, distinguishes itself by the intense treatment of textures, be it fragile terra cottas, imposing bronzes or glowing red iron castings. An important name in contemporary sculpture, Hanneke Beaumont, shares her time of life and creation between Brussels and Pietrasanta in Italy. She was born in 1947 in Maastrich in Holland. After having studied dentistry in Boston (Massachusetts), she returns to Europe and settles in Belgium. She begins in 1977 a rich artistic education at the Fine Arts of Braine-l’Alleud and in Brussels, notably at “l'Ecole Nationale Supérieure de La Cambre”. 1994 marks an important turn in her carrier. Her sculpture group, she named "Le Courage", is awarded with the “Grand Prix” major award of the “Centre International d’Art Contemporain du Château of Beychevelle”. Shortly after, the plastic artist takes successfully part in the "2e Exposición Internacional de Esculturas en la Calle" organised in Santa Cruz of Tenerife. Since then, Hanneke Beaumont benefits from international acknowledgement, having exhibitions in European countries as well as in the US and Canada. Since spring 2007, her emblematic sculpture "Stepping Forward" marks the entrance to the LEX, the new building of the European Union Council, in Brussels.