The Friends of the Moulin de Camalès relay the history of a building whose existence was reported in 1745 and which, until the 1950s, was the site of a flour milling activity; local associations that have registered in the heritage days with national and then European geometry in particular since the integration of the mills in 2006: Country Heritage and Mill Days. The 2024 edition was the occasion for the presentation of an original collection, that of automatons that the creator Michel Coucalon chose to host at the mill, a donation of works which for each, is a tribute to a traditional profession. A new relay between the artisan artist and Igor Chpiliotoff, president of the Friends of the Mill; a real chain between arts of the past and today.
Far from the clocks, chimes and jacquemarts, automatons of prestigious cathedrals that have marked time since the end of the Middle Ages, Michel Coucalon in his workshop in Vic, has shaped characters in situation, from the grinder to the farmer who shells corn, from lumberjacks to cabinetmakers… A gallery of characters in activity because they are mobile, living wood in movement. Ingenious jack-of-all-trades who has been able to extend the stages and professional acquisitions of upholsterer, carpenter, volunteer firefighter, by creating at the same time playful, technical and artistic.
An exhibited collection that completes this stated ambition of the association of an eco-museum where already tools of work of the fields, of forge… donated by elders of the village or their children weave the thread of history. A site and a calendar of events open on announced dates.