Artist-designers Lionel Jadot and Mircea Anghel are drawing, signing and selling 1.000 wine bottles at Objects With Narratives
On 18 and 19 December 2024, artist-designers Mircea Anghel and Lionel Jadot will stage a two-day performance at the Brussels design gallery Objects With Narratives, where they will be live drawing and signing 1.000 wine bottles from 10am until 6pm.
The unique series of 1.000 bottles will be sold for 100 euros each and the profit will go to the project called Barrosinha, a 2000 hectares estate 20 minutes from Comporta, Portugal, where Lionel Jadot, Mircea Anghel, Pierre Rousseau and entrepreneur Edouard Fernandez have embarked on an extraordinary adventure, combining art, community, land and agriculture. This project aims to enhance creativity and artistic freedom by creating spaces that attract artists, craftsmen, scientists, and researchers.
Following the example of Zaventem Ateliers, the Barrosinha Estate offers a hotel, artists’ studios, nature walks, wine tasting, local cuisine, and a family-friendly tavern with outdoor seating. By cross-pollinating agriculture, culture, design and lifestyle, the owners want to build an ecosystem based on circular economy.
At Barrosinha, alongside the traditional community of farmers, winemakers, and rural workers, a new community of artists and craftmakers is emerging. The interaction between these two worlds has been particularly interesting, with agricultural traditions blending naturally with artistic creativity. While the long-standing residents preserve and share their knowledge of the land and production, the new members bring innovation, arts, and crafts, enriching the local atmosphere. This balance between rural heritage and modern artistic creation has led to a dynamic and inspiring coexistence.
Barrosinha Winery blends tradition and innovation in wine production, cultivating a range of white and red grape varieties. Surrounded by vineyards, cork forests and rice fields, it is the perfect location. Located between the Setúbal Peninsula and Alentejo, the wines are shaped by diverse microclimates. Using both modern stainless steel tanks and traditional concrete amphoras, the wines are crafted with distinct character.
Mircea Anghel is an internationally acclaimed artist and designer based in Portugal whose studio is located since 2019 in a 1,500-square-metre sawmill at Barrosinha. His practice celebrates natural processes where every piece is made by hand that have either been salvaged from storms or responsibly sourced.
Lionel Jadot is a Belgian designer, decorator, and artist who epitomises an era of profound ecological change, intuitively mastering its codes.
Both Mircea Anghel and Lionel Jadot currently exhibit work at Objects With Narratives: Anghel presents the solo exhibition 'Out of the fire' to celebrate the 10th anniversary of his practice; and Lionel Jadot presents work as part of his permanent residency at Objects With Narratives.
Lionel Jadot & Mircea Anghel
Performance and wine sale
18 & 19 December 2024, 10:00 - 18:00
Objects With Narratives
Place Du Grand Sablon 40,
Brussels 1000
Images here (credit: Stanislas Huaux)
About Lionel Jadot
Lionel Jadot was born in a chairmaking workshop in Brussels, where his family had crafted stylish chairs and sofas for six generations. The rest of his story unfolds like a novel fueled by a child's early passion for transforming workshop gleanings. Jadot creates unique works, favouring durable objects over disposable catalogue items. He is also an interior designer, recently completing the Mix, a hybrid hotel-living space in Brussels, collaboratively shaped with around fifty creators. This endeavour offers an unforgettable hospitality experience, fostering ecological, serene, and desirable design. Most of these “makers” are housed in his workshop in Zaventem, a proper breeding ground for talent. Selected for their ability to shake up the established order, they open the way for ecological, serene and desirable design.
About Mircea Anghel
Born in Romania in 1986, Mircea Anghel is a self-taught designer based in Portugal and the founder of Cabana Studio. From a young age, growing up in Bucharest, he displayed a particular interest in mathematics and always found pleasure in problem-solving. The son of a diplomat, Anghel moved to Lisbon in 2001, where he studied economics at the University of Lisbon, before embarking on a career in finance. During those years, he developed a keen interest in woodworking, to which he devoted himself while not at work. His passion soon turned into a full-time occupation, and after resigning from his position at a hedge fund, he established his own design practice, Cabana Studio, in 2015. In 2019, in need of space for his larger creations, he moved his studio in the Portuguese capital to a 1,500-square-meter sawmill, located in Herdade da Barrosinha, a rural estate in Alcácer do Sal.
https://www.mirceaanghel.com/all
About Barrosinha
Herdade da Barrosinha, nestled by the Sado River in Alcácer do Sal, offers relaxation, artists’ studios, nature walks, wine tasting, local cuisine, and a family-friendly tavern with outdoor seating.
Herdade da Barrosinha started to blossom under the responsibility of Abel Pereira da Fonseca, founder of the eponymous company, producer and distributor of wine and goods. Philanthropist, his enlightened leadership fostered a social vision of industrialisation in the early 20th century in Portugal.
Carried on from 1947 by his successors Marcelino Correa and sons, this heritage has grown around the Tagus and Sado estuaries in the form of strong rural communities organised in cooperative that ensured civil rights, health and education for all.
The property located 50 min from Lisbon and 20 min from Comporta, currently holds agricultural, wine production and hospitality operations integrated in 2,000 ha known for fertile hinterland, with fields of wheat, olive trees and vineyard, disturbed only by centuries-old cork oaks.
https://herdadedabarrosinha.pt