Carré d’Art
Norman Foster designed this transparent cuboid building. It takes its name from being close by La Maison Carree, one of the old town’s jewels.
Norman Foster designed this transparent cuboid building. It takes its name from being close by La Maison Carree, one of the old town’s jewels.
Programme
The melody of things
This exceptional presentation allows visitors to discover or revisit works ranging from movements that appeared in the 1960s such as the Nouveau Réalisme and Supports-Surfaces to the most contemporary proposals, but also French or German painting of the 1980s and the presence of singular artists. A more or less chronological tour takes place on the two floors of the museum.
Et pourtant si... Claude Viallat
For the first time, the town where Claude Viallat was born and has lived for over forty years is presenting a substantial selection of his works. It will fill the entire space of Carré d’Art, from the entrance hall to the two exhibition floors. Sourced directly from the creative heart that is Viallat’s studio in Nîmes, this exhibition will show the generosity of what the artist
imself describes as his “numerous and spiralling” work – the diversity of its materials, of its dimensions, of its imaginaries.
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.
Access
Carré d'Art - Musée d'art contemporain
Place de la Maison-Carrée
30000 Nîmes
- 33 (0)4 66 76 35 70/35
carreartmusee.com
Tuesday to Sunday: 10 am - 6 pm.
6.30 pm on weekends.
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CULTURE & HERITAGE
• La Maison Carrée (Nîmes)
• Les Arènes (Nîmes)
• Le Musée de la Romanité (Nîmes)
Cultural venues within 60 km :
• Collection Lambert (Avignon)
• Le Grenier à Sel (Avignon)
• Luma (Arles)
• Fondation Vincent van Gogh (Arles)
• Musée Reattu (Arles)
PLACES TO STAY
• Royal Hôtel *** : a former 19th-century cloister in the heart of the city. (Nîmes)
• Appart'hôtel Odalys Le Cheval Blanc : exceptional location facing the Roman amphitheater, 5-minute walk from the train station. (Nîmes)
PLACES TO EAT
• Ciel de Nîmes : on the last floor of Carré d’art. (Nîmes)
• Émile et Simone : cheese, cold meat, vegetables plates, wine bar. (Nîmes)
