PARIS.- The Centre international d’art et du paysage de l’île de Vassivière is presents the first solo exhibition in France of the British-born, LA-based artist Thomas Houseago: What Went Down. Under the curatorship of Chiara Parisi, the exhibition is on view from July 3 until October 23, 2011. Thomas Houseago’s monumental and anthropomorphic sculptures have invaded Aldo Rossi’s building and the sculpture’s wood on Vassivière Island. Struck by the landscape, the artist expanded the exhibition space of the Centre d’art towards the usually inaccessible Snake Island. Large Lamp I (Snake Island) (2011) rises 4 meters above the ground of the island, and can be admired directly by the lake’s users. According to a local 1950s legend, the island was filled with reptiles which fled the flooding of the Vassivière towns when the artificial lake was formed. This illuminated work converses with the lighthous