document de travail22/11/2010
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document de travail22/11/2010
Press release Painting Otherwise Contemporary Art and the French Riviera, Experimental Grounds 1951-2011 26 June - 7 November 2011 Musées nationaux du XXe siècle des Alpes-Maritimes an exhibition organised by the Musée national Marc Chagall, Nice, Musée national Fernand Léger, Biot, Musée national Pablo Picasso, La Guerre et la Paix, Vallauris and the Rmn-GP. In summer 2011, Contemporary Art and the French Riviera, Experimental Grounds will demonstrate the extraordinary creativity of this region in some twenty venues (museums, art centres, and galleries) strung along the Mediterranean coast from Vallauris to Menton, through Biot, Vence and Nice. For this event, the Musées nationaux du XXe siècle des Alpes-Maritimes have selected works by artists whose research explores the act of painting and various devices for deconstructing art. The exhibition spans sixty years of creativity and brings together many artists who lived or worked in the region or had a significant impact there. Their work is part of a general exploration of the very nature of painting, and the events, tools and media that bring it into being. They focus on supports and surfaces, experiments with pigment or dye on canvas, the physical reality of the stretcher and other components of pictures and sculpture. Although some belonged to movements such as New Realism, Support/Surfaces or Groupe 70, they all took part in the international questioning of the customary definitions and functions of a work of art. At the Musée national Fernand Léger, proposals from Hartung’s last period will be shown alongside Arman’s Allures d’objets, Yves Klein’s Cosmogonies and Malaval’s Paillettes. Such works not only permit a different interpretation of art movements but also provide a historical foundation for later proposals. And later proposals are not lacking: Ben’s Gestes (Geste: me peindre, 1964), Noël Dolla’s experiments on canvas or other materials such as tarlatan, floor cloths or landscapes; Claude Viallat’s instantly recognisable form laid on all kinds of supports; confrontations of objects or materials by Bernard Pagès and his variations on the act of sculpting. The members of Groupe 70 naturally have their place in this movement in which painting and critical thinking about painting are one and the same. All these approaches are in phase with what others were doing at the same time, elsewhere, in Paris but also in the United States. Floor Cloths, Noël Dolla, 1967-1999 © Noël Dolla, 1999 But the artists of the seventies were not the only ones to question painting and what it involved. The exhibition at the Musée national Marc Chagall shows how the following generation, as well as many artists today, explored the nature of painting and its limitations and ways in which they can still be extended. Adrian Schiess and Pascal Pinaud both work on these issues, one focusing on monochrome mirror surfaces and the other showing how accidents of all sorts give surfaces an undeniable plastic reality. The black depth of the fluid surfaces presented by the BP group reflects the critical spirit which brought them to the public eye. It interacts with those shaped by Ghada Amer, Dominique Figarella, Cédric Teisseire, Marc Chevalier, Aïcha Hamu, Julien Bouillon and many others taking part in this exhibition. Echoing the 1969 exhibition at Coaraze in the hinterland of Nice, the Musées nationaux du XXe siècle des Alpes-Maritimes have formed a partnership with the city to program an exhibition of the work of young artists. Pierre Descamps, Frédérique Nalbandian, Emilie Perotto and Xavier Theunis have been asked to set up installations in public spaces especially for the event. ................................. curated by : Maurice Fréchuret, director of the Musées nationaux du XXe siècle des Alpes-Maritimes Ariane Coulondre, curator at the Musée national Fernand Léger ............................... Musée national Marc Chagall Musée national Pablo Picasso, Press contacts La Guerre et la Paix, Vallauris, Rmn-GP www.musee-chagall.fr place de la Libération Head of the press access: take bus no. 22 or 15 +33 (0)4 93 64 71 83 department from Nice railway station; www.musee-picasso-vallauris.fr Florence Le Moing access: +33 (0)1 40 13 47 62 by rail Nice railway station, [email protected] avenue Docteur Ménard 06000 Nice, +33 (0)4 93 53 87 20 by car, follow the signs from the city centre open: every day except Tuesdays, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. to Golfe Juan, (5 p.m. from 1 November) shuttle bus from Golfe Juan Annick Duboscq admission: €9.50, to Vallauris [email protected] concession: €7.50 Cannes railway station, including the permanent collections take the Vallauris-Aéroport - Nice-Cote d’Azur bus, Musée national Fernand Léger chemin du Val de Pome bus line between Nice and Cannes 06 410 Biot, +33(0)4 92 91 50 30 operated by Bus rapides Cote www.fernandleger.fr d’Azur access: 15 km from Nice-Côte by road, take the RN7 or d’Azur airport; motorway A8, Biot railway station and exit Antibes, then RD 135 to then Envibus no.10 (bus stop Musée Fernand Léger). Vallauris By motorway, Villeneuve-Loubet exit; open: every day except Tuesdays, RN7, 2 km then Antibes, then Biot from 10 to 12:15 a.m. and from 2 open: every day except Tuesdays, p.m. to 6 p.m. from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. (5 p.m. closing from 15 (5 p.m. from 1 November) d i i 7 50 i 6 September); Musées nationaux du e XX siècle des Alpes-Maritimes Françoise Borello +33 (0)6 70 74 38 71 [email protected]