TOUS LÉGER!
19 MARS - 20 JUILLET 2025
Grâce à un partenariat inédit entre deux collections majeures du territoire de la Côte d’Azur, les œuvres de Niki de Saint Phalle, Arman, Yves Klein, Raymond Hains, Martial Raysse ou encore César viennent à la rencontre des innovations plastiques de Fernand Léger, l’un des pionniers de l’avant-garde au XXe siècle.
Aux côtés de ces principaux représentants du Nouveau Réalisme, des œuvres d’artistes tels Roy Lichtenstein ou plus tard Keith Haring, illustrent les échanges artistiques qui ont très tôt existé entre la création européenne et la scène américaine.
Le parcours de l’exposition, composé de près de 100 œuvres, aborde, sur un mode ludique et créatif, différents axes thématiques : le détournement de l’objet, la représentation du corps et des loisirs, ou encore la place de l’art dans l’espace public.
BRIGITTE AUBIGNAC
14 DECEMBER 2024 - 02 MARCH 2025
the Paul Valéry Museum in Sète hosts forty paintings by Brigitte Aubignac and as many by Nazanin Pouyandeh, in the form of a double monograph
MARTIAL RAYSSE
October 26 - December 26, 2024
2024 marks the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and France.
On this occasion, the G Art Museum presents an exhibition of drawings by Martial Raysse with the support of the Fonds de Dotation Martial Raysse, the Gallery Hadrien de Montferrand, the French Consulate in Guangzhou, and the Institut Français in China.
POP FOREVER
OCTOBER 17, 2024 - FEBRUARY 24, 2025
From October 17, 2024, to February 24, 2025, the Foundation Louis Vuitton presents “Pop Forever, Tom Wesselmann &...” an exhibition devoted to Pop Art, one of the major artistic movements of the 1960s whose presence has not ceased, to this day, to assert itself on all continents and for all generations. The installation America America by Artist Martial Raysse is the opening art of the show
MARTIAL RAYSSE
JULY 13 - SEPTEMBER 01, 2024
2024 marks the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and France.
On this occasion, the Shenyang 1905 space presents an exhibition of drawings by Martial Raysse with the support of the Fonds de Dotation Martial Raysse, the Gallery Hadrien de Montferrand, the French Consulate in Shenyang, and the Institut Français in China.
MARTIAL RAYSSE - PAINTINGS, STATUES, POEMS
JULY 06 - NOVEMBER 11, 2024
From 6 July to 11 November, the castle of Biron hosts an exhibition dedicated to Martial Raysse, an artist who has chosen home and workshop in Périgord. In this exhibition entitled "Paintings, statues, poems 1974-2014", the public will discover 40 years of works by the artist.
MUSEO IMMAGINARIO
OCTOBER 21 - DECEMBER 01, 2023
Brigitte Aubignac’s exhibition "Museo Immaginario" stands as a firm declaration statement of intent that the museum is either imaginary or it is not, to the detriment of the traditional concept of the museum space, perhaps now outdated, which wants it to be a static entity. The exhibition presents around thirty works, including gouaches on paper and works on canvas, which showcase accumulations of sculptures from all styles and eras. In these apparent museum storerooms, are placed works of the most disparate kinds, shrouded in dark atmospheres and lit by dim window lights. One of these figures, in particular, seems to establish a dialogue with the viewer: the dancer by Degas, sometimes portrayed in an eccentric profile position, others from behind, seems to be inseparably connected to Aubignac, an alter ego that allows her to contemplate this miscellaneous surreal world, prompting her to question herself about art’s capacity to reinvent itself.
FIGURES SEULES
JULY 01 - SEPTEMBER 24, 2023
The exhibition Figures Seules, presented at Lee Ufan's Espace MA in Arles from July 1 to September 24, 2023, brings together the works of five artists working in France, Brigitte Aubignac, Ymane Chabi-Gara, Marc Desgrandchamps, Tim Eitel and Djamel Tatah, around the theme of the human figure.
MARTIAL RAYSSE - RECENT WORKS
JUNE 17 - NOVEMBER 05, 2023
The Paul Valéry Museum exhibits the works of Martial Raysse, painter, sculptor, illustrator, and video artist. Martial Raysse brilliantly mixes the traditional themes of pictorial art with contemporary images.
CITADEL OF THE MIND
SEPTEMBER 20 - NOVEMBER 20, 2022
Valentin Pavageau, a Belgian artist born in 1990, spent his childhood drawing comics before entering art school where he mainly works with Chinese ink, before dedicating himself to digital collage. His use and mastery of this technique allow him to give free rein to his imagination, and his creative process leaves a great deal of room for visual experimentation and impulsiveness.
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BODY POSITIVE
JUNE 1 - AUGUST 1, 2022
Daniel Oruwhone paints figurative works, that juxtapose classical and contemporary philosophy drawn from history and his diverse life experiences; Questioning the viewers' perception and exploring themes of sexuality and historical nostalgia.
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ASIAN PORTRAITS
MARCH 22 - MAY 22, 2022
The portrait is an artistic genre with ancient origins, essential in painting because of its rich history, and commemorative purpose. Visited then revisited, the portrait genre is symptomatic of the aesthetic thought of an era and evolves during the various pictorial movements.
During the high peak of artistic creation, the Italian Renaissance. Many portraits focused on the desire to capture a person’s likeliness so he or she could seem present even in absence. But likeness and evident artistic mediation are not mutually exclusive. Stylized portraits like those by Bronzino were also praised for being lifelike. Indeed, portraiture without art, without the intercession of style and adherence to beauty ideals, has been viewed since antiquity as a lesser achievement. While Vasari lauded Anguissola for being able to both imitate and invent, Michelangelo’s artistic invention prevailed; when critics recognized that Michelangelo’s sculptures of the Medici’s were not faithful to their models, the artist reportedly declared that in a century no one would remember that they looked any different.
Then, in a world dominated by digital images and the mass media, how does our psychology combine with the social functions of portraits? Perhaps because the portrait not only refers to the other but above all to ourselves. In its global use, the portrait reminds us of our own image and our personal issues intimately and realistically.
Through the portrait, the artists in this exhibition question our relationship to the body and to the notion of identity in a complex socio-cultural context that redefines the borders of art expression.
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