The major summer exhibitions for 2022 on the Côte d'Azur!

“CHRISTIAN LOUBOUTIN, THE EXHIBITIONIST” CHAPTER II

📍 Grimaldi Forum Monaco in Monaco
📆 From 9 July to 28 August 2022

This summer on the Côte d’Azur, Christian Louboutin is exhibiting his greatest creations at the Grimaldi Forum Monaco.

Christian Louboutin, The Exhibition[ist], Chapter II, will give the public a new perspective following the first exhibition at the Palais de la Porte Dorée in Paris in 2020.

The set design being prepared for Monacowill encompass 2,000 m² and unveil previously unseen works tied to the designer’s Monegasque inspirations as well as new collaborations, including a unique project being developed with British plastic artist Allen Jones.

Far from a classic retrospective, the exhibition path was designed as a joyful odyssey through three decades of abundant creativity infused with curiosity for all cultures and arts.

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THE POP-UP CINEMA MUSEUM: “LOUIS DE FUNÈS, THE EXHIBITION”

📍 Palais des Festivals et des Congrès in Cannes
📆 From 14 July to 21 August 2022

The Pop-up Cinema Museum has set up in Cannes, the town of cinema.

Head for the Palais des Festivals to discover the history of cinema through a themed exhibition and events.

This exhibition covers the hundred or so roles played by Louis de Funès, whose biggest hits are regularly watched and rewatched in France and throughout the world, and who is now famous among five generations of viewers.

It shows and interprets the sources of inspiration and the comic energy of Louis de Funès, particularly through his burlesque genius for observation that led him to top the box office for 50 years.

This exhibition is an invitation to discover every facet of the actor through the collation of almost 300 works.

Among them, we find Corniaud’s car, Rabbi Jacob’s suit… and also photographs, paintings, drawings, sculptures, period documents and film clips that make you want to rewatch all these great classics.

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“AT THE HEART OF ABSTRACTION”

📍 Fondation Maeght in Saint-Paul-de-Vence
📆 From 2 July to 20 November 2022

The Fondation Maeght in Saint-Paul-de-Vence is offering an exhibition based on abstraction, organized in conjunction with the Fondation Gandur pour l’Art. It is therefore exhibiting some 120 works from the Fondation Gandur pour l’Art (Geneva) and proposes a riveting immersion in abstraction from the 1950s to the 1980s.

The works of Hans Hartung, Martin Barré, Simon Hantaï and Pierre Soulages trace the evolution of non-figurative art over four decades. In a thematic and chronological layout, the exhibition invites the viewer to discover lyrical and gestural abstraction by Georges Mathieu, abstract expressionism by Sam Francis and Joan Mitchell, geometric abstraction by Victor Vasarely, kinetic works by Alexander Calder and Jean Tinguely, through to the rethinking of painting by the Supports/Surfaces group. The 1980s ushered in an era of revitalized abstract art, building on the hectic experimentation of earlier years.

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“JAUME PLENSA – THE LIGHT KEEPS VIGIL”

📍 Musée Picasso in Antibes
📆 From 11 June to 25 September 2022

The Catalan sculptor and engraver Jaume Plensa exhibits his works at the Picasso Museum in Antibes. The father of the immense sculpture, “Nomade”, which dominates the port of Vauban, is returning to Antibes, this time with drawings. The “Jaume Plensa – The Light Keeps Vigil” exhibition brings together ninety works created between 1982 and 2022. This is the first retrospective of the artist’s drawings in a museum.

It was designed for the tenth anniversary of the permanent installation of the monumental Nomade sculpture on the Bastion Saint-Jaume terrace, commissioned from the artist by Musée Picasso in Antibes in 2010.

Jaume Plensa is a modern Spanish sculptor, born in Barcelona in 1955. He became famous in the start of the 1980s for simple large shapes in cast iron, his work then developed towards sculptural installations using light, sound and language.

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“ULYSSES’ DREAM”

📍 The Carmignac Foundation on the island of Porquerolles
📆 From 30 April to 16 October 2022

This year, Villa Carmignacis hosting an exhibition inspired by the Greek hero who sailed for ten years to return home after the Trojan War (The Iliad). Ulysses mistakenly landed on the shores of Porquerolles. There, he fought and struck down the Alycastre, the monster sent by Poseidon and sculpted by the artist Miquel Barceló at the entrance of the Villa Carmignac. On this Mediterranean island where the light, sea, trees and caves are the same as in Homer’s time, gods and myths are still alive. The Odyssey continues to accompany us and to help us live, like some more contemporary works of art, which sometimes light our way. Continuing on from previous exhibitions that had us enter a subterranean or underwater world, Ulysses’ Dream once again invites you to slip under the surface.

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“I’M NOT PICASSO / IT’S NOT ALL CUT AND DRIED”

📍 Musée Magnelli, Ceramics Museum in Vallauris
📆 From 25 June to 19 September 2022

Plunge into the world of Ben at the Musée Magnelli ceramics museum in Vallauris.

Known above all for his painting works, calligraphical writings-aphorisms, through this exhibition BEN will reveal to the public the close link he has with ceramics, especially through “ready-made” and original creations. The backbone of the exhibition if to show that ceramics is a subject open to creation.

The “I’m not Picasso / It’s not all cut and dried” exhibitionwill take place in the Eden Hall, a former cinema transformed in 2004 into a temporary exhibition space for the museum. Beyond the material, the artist wished to reappropriate this space so as to develop his creations there. This exhibition will also be the opportunity for a collaboration with the plastic artist Monique Thibaudin, who lives and works in Vallauris.

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