Claude Viallat, Et Pourtant Si…

Carré d'Art, Nîmes

For the first time, Le Carré d’Art in Nîmes, Viallat’s birthplace, presents an exhibition dedicated to this artist, founder of the Support/Surface movement. The exhibition focuses on recent works by Viallat, taken directly from the artist’s studio. Paintings, sculptures and assemblages are presented to demonstrate the talent of this exceptional colorist.

A founding member of the Supports/Surfaces group and historic figure of French abstract art, Viallat is tirelessly developing a body of work which is at once instantly recognisable and constantly on the move. In addition to his paintings, the exhibition will feature numerous objects, somewhere between sculpture and fortuitous assemblage that are always at once precariously balanced and consummately elegant. Their playful simplicity dialogues constantly with the intense formal and chromatic pleasures of his painting.

CARRÉ D’ART-MUSÉE D’ART CONTEMPORAIN
PLACE DE LA MAISON CARRÉE – 30000 NÎMES

Open daily except monday, from 10 am to 6pm

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Miró – Picasso, Celebración Picasso 1973-2023

Picasso Museum and Miró Foundation, Barcelone

On the occasion of the “Celebración Picasso 1973-2023” program, a total of fifty events celebrating Picasso are being organized around the world, including an exceptional collaboration between the Picasso Museum and the Miró Foundation. Focusing on two themes, the friendship between the two artists and their attachment to Barcelona, the exhibition brings together over 250 works to be discovered at both the Picasso Museum and the Miró Foundation.

The exhibition is organised around six major chronological and thematic axes and will bring together a set of more than 250 works from public and private collections from all around the world with the aim of exhibiting, one beside the other, two artists who transformed 20th century art with their own voice and an unprecedented plastic intensity. From the time they met in 1917 in Barcelona to their last monumental projects, including the episode of the Pavilion of the Spanish Republic in Paris in 1937 or the interest in the ancestral technique of ceramics, the visitor will also discover how these two artists and friends shared many transcendental moments of their careers.

Miró-Picasso forms part of the events of the Picasso Celebration 1973-2023, which includes a total of 50 exhibitions dedicated to Picasso that will take place around the world between the autumn of 2022 and the spring of 2024.

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Mark Rothko, Retrospective

Fondation Louis Vuitton

The Fondation Louis Vuitton hosts the first mark Rothko retrospective in France since 1999. Bringing together over a hundred works from major collections, the exhibition chronologically traces Rothko’s fruitful career, from his first figurative canvases to his famous Color-Field all-over canvases.

The exhibition’s co-curator, Christopher Rothko, the artist’s son, offers an intimate look at Rothko’s work.

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Judit Reigl 100 | Judit Reigl and the Second School of Paris

Mucsarnok, Budapest

To celebrate the centenary of Judit Reigl’s birth, the Mucsarnok in Budapest is presenting a collection of over 60 works representing the artist’s fine career. The exhibition retraces Reigl’s major periods, including her rare figurative paintings executed during her stay in Rome. It will also be an opportunity to rediscover the impressive canvases in Jean Claude Gandur’s collection, commemorating the Second School of Paris, a movement to which Reigl was associated with as soon as she arrived in the capital in the 50s.

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Nicolas de Staël | Retrospective in Paris

Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris

The Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris presents a major retrospective dedicated to Nicolas de Staël, an emblematic figure on the post-war art scene. Bringing together over 200 works, including some never-before-seen pieces, the exhibition chronologically traces the artist’s development towards the pure, singular abstraction.

The exhibition will run at the Fondation de l’Hermitage in Lausanne from February 9 to June 9, 2024.

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Sam Francis, « In Lovely Blueness »

Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris

Echoing Claude Monet’s Water Lilies, on September 12, 2023, the Musée de l’Orangerie presented Sam Francis’ very large-format In Lovely Blueness, on a three-year loan from the Musée National d’Art Moderne / Centre de Création Industrielle, to which it had been donated in 1977 by the Scaler Foundation with contributions from Éric and Sylvie Boissonnas.

Sam Francis arrived in Paris in 1950 and stayed for a decade, during which time his work gained recognition. The format of this painting was inspired by Monet’s Water Lilies, which he discovered when the museum reopened in 1953. He titled the work In Lovely Blueness, recalling a poem by Hölderlin (In Lieblicher Bläue, 1823). Blue of the sky, as the poet wrote, blue of the ocean too, according to Sam Francis, this color reveals the lyricism of his view of the world.

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Jorge Eduardo Eielson. The Vertical Knot

Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Spain

The exhibition “The Vertical Knot”, devoted to the artist Jorge Eduardo Eielson (Lima, 1924 – Milan, 2006), offers the chance to examine his artistic output from the end of the fifties to the last works he created. Eielson is one of the most radical visual artists and poets, in the fullest sense of the word, as well as multifaceted, with different ways of questioning the world we live in through a synthesis of graphic pieces and cultural references.

This exhibition project, retrospective in nature and unprecedented in Europe, explores the artist’s relationship with the literary field, especially poetry, and that of visual arts. A fruitful dialogue featuring his thoughts on language. Language taken as a structure in which the symbol points equally to a beginning and an end, language that responds to graphic and visual codes that speak both to reason and to intuition.

Jorge Eduardo Eielson’s work is a corpus of worlds that converge and dialogue: the pre-Columbian past and the blue of a certain Mediterranean mythology, writing and plastic art, the concreteness of the sign and the infinity of space. 

Curator : Imma Prieto

Coproduction with Es Baluard Museum of Contemporary Art of Palma

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VASARELY BEFORE THE OP: European abstraction, 1945-1955

Fondation Vasarely, Aix-En-Provence

The Vasarely Foundation continues its partnership with the Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne-Centre de création industrielle for the 4th consecutive year, with the summer exhibition “Vasarely avant l’Op, une abstraction européenne, 1945-1955”. From June 17 to October 15, 2023, a selection of 35 major works on loan from the Paris museum, the Musée départemental Matisse, the Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris, the Hartung-Bergman Foundation, the Marta Pan Foundation, the Denise René Gallery and private collections will be presented in Aix-en-Provence, at the Vasarely Foundation for four months.

Exhibition with works by Agam, Jean-Michel Atlan, André Bloc, Simone Boisecq, Robert Breer, Geneviève Claisse, Jean Dewasne, Jean Deyrolle, Cesar Domela, Etienne Gilioli, Hans Hartung, Auguste Herbin, Robert Jacobsen, Berto Lardera, Alberto Magnelli, Richard Mortensen, Pablo Palazuelo, Marta Pan, Ideo Pantaleoni, Alicia Penalba, Edgar Pillet, Serge Poliakoff, Gérard Schneider, Pierre Soulages, Victor Vasarely and Nicolaas Warb.

Curator of the exhibition: Michel Gauthier

An exhibition in partnership with the Musée National d’Art Moderne Centre Pompidou

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Jean Paul Riopelle | Essence of studios

The Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul de Vence