Art contemporain
Contemporary art: this winter’s unmissable exhibitions
In addition to the region’s “classics”, from Chagall to Bonnard, this season also focuses strongly on women painters, photographers, and collectors. What a joy!
By Tanja Stojanov
Pierre Bonnard, Le Café, 1915, huile sur toile, 73 x 106.4 cm, Tate, Londres./ © Tate, Londres, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Tate Photography
Musée Bonnard Le Cannet
Balthus, Bazaine, Rothko, les enfants de Bonnard
Jusqu’au 30 janvier
He was a great loner and found the favourite themes of his paintings in his day-to-day life. Yet Pierre Bonnard developed a quasi-abstract language of great modernity that marked the post-war French and American artistic movements. A heritage is highlighted in this hanging, with 15 or so paintings in support by the master.
16 boulevard Sadi Carnot, Le Cannet – Tél. 04.93.94.06.06 – museebonnard.com
Latifa Echakhch, L’homme aux masques, Série des Automates, 2018. Vidéo couleur et son 4 min. 28 sec. Collection NMNM, n° 2018.49.2
Nouveau Musée National de Monaco : Tremblements
The uncompromising photographic work of Nan Goldin is the subject of several exhibitions across the region, and Clément Cogitore’s adaptation of Rameau’s opera Les Indes Galantes, featuring Krump dancers, was a resounding success when it was presented at the Musée Chagall in Nice. Both artists, representing two generations, have entered the collections of the Nouveau Musée National de Monaco. This winter Villa Paloma presents a selection of works acquired between 2010 and 2021, produced by 18 artists representing 10 nationalities. It’s a chance to see work by Duchamp prize winners including Latifa Echakhch and Sylvie Blocher, creators supported by Lafayette Anticipations such as American videographer Arthur Jafa and Kosovan visual artist Petrit Halilaj, as well as local artists including Brice Dellsperger from Cannes. The works, inspired by the notion of trembling, explore the human condition, colonialism, consumerism and the poetic fantasy of Laure Prouvost.
Jusqu’au 25 mai 2022
Villa Paloma
56 boulevard du Jardin Exotique, Monaco
Tél. +377 98 98 48 60 – nmnm.com - nmnm.mc
Fiona Rae, Figure 2a, 2015, huile sur toile, 182,9 x 129,5 cm./ © Photography Antony Makinson at Prudence Cuming Associates Ltd © Rae, Courtesy Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris/Bruxelles
Centre d’art La Malmaison Cannes
Fiona Rae
Promoted by Galerie Nathalie Obadia, she was part of the Young British Artists group—along with Damien Hirst, Gary Hume, and Sarah Lucas—which shook up the contemporary British art scene in the 80s by transgressing limits and creating controversy with their shocking works. Born in Hong Kong and living in London, Fiona Rae thus became one of the most prominent painters of her generation, with her brightly coloured psychedelic abstract forms
joining the Tate Britain and Centre Pompidou collections.
Jusqu’au 24 avril 2022
47 La Croisette, Cannes - Tél. 04 97 06 45 21 - cannes.com
Clavecin et vitrail peint par l’artiste dans l’auditorium. / © MNMC C.Weil
Musée Marc Chagall Nice
Le passeur de lumière
Jusqu’au 10 janvier
The light passer. “For me, the stained-glass window represents a partition between my heart and the heart of the world”, wrote the Belarusian artist, a great colourist whose paintings relating to the biblical message and breath-taking stained-glass window are housed in Nice. In France and around the world, 15 buildings house this type of work on glass by the artist, who invested them with strong spiritual symbolism. To be discovered.
musees-nationaux-alpesmaritimes.fr
Jenny Rova, On departure, April in Venice, Série : I would also like to be / A work on Jealousy, 2013.
Natasha Caruana, Natasha, Série : The Other Woman, 2005.
Centre de la photographie de Mougins : L’Amour toujours
Love always. Say nothing about yourselves, position yourselves as remotely as possible from your work… The two photographers brought together here have one thing in common: taking opposing views of these stipulations. They have made private life the material of choice in their work, be that what they have observed around them or their own romantic relationships. Jenny Rova (Sweden, 1972) questions how others perceive us through photos of her taken by her exes and illustrates the eventful journey of a fiery passion. Natasha Caruana (the United Kingdom, 1983) questions what makes the male gaze and shows the complexity of couple relationships, the power of desire, little day-to-day perversions, and unacknowledged secrets. Straightforward women, new outlooks.
Jusqu’au 30 janvier 2022
43 rue de l’Église, Mougins
Tél. 04 22 21 52 12
centrephotographiemougins.com
Vue de l’exposition Sibyl Albers, salle 8 avec Richter, Honegger, Hafif, Ridell, West et Zobernig. / © Espace de l’Art Concret
Musée d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain Nice
Daniel Spoerri’s Theatre of Objects
What is Spoerri’s connection with Nice? He was part of the New Realists in the 60s, a movement whose Nice branch comprised Klein, Arman and Martial Raysse. A virtuoso in the art of clashes, anecdotal and derisory encounters with obvious humour, the Swiss artist made a name for himself with his painting-traps, freezing the leftovers of diners’ meals in time. You launch into his work with its snares and traps, his cabinets of curiosities and banquets as you would a funfair. A surprise in 300 or so works and documents.
Jusqu’au 27 mars 2022
Place Yves Klein, Nice - Tél. 04 97 13 42 01 - mamac-nice.org
Espace de l’Art Concert Mouans-Sartoux
Freed-up space
EAC co-founder Sybil Albers-Barrier loved this emptiness, this absence that leaves sufficient space for wonderment to happen. A freed-up space is being deployed for this tribute exhibition after its disappearance in autumn 2019. An opportunity to relive the Albers-Honegger Donation inauguration in 2004 through unpublished photographs by Bernard Plossu; to explore this woman’s demanding collection—she chooses to live in art with her companion—and to take a walk through 30 or so works that were dear to her. A universe of radical forms—often monochrome—in which we meet works by François Morellet, Aurélie Nemours, Herman de Vries, and Elisabeth Vary. Fascinating.
Jusqu’au 20 février 2022
Château de Mouans,
Tél. 04 93 75 71 50
espacedelartconcret.fr
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