Espace de l’Art Concret (eac)
Founded in 1990, the eac. holds a collection of abstract art unique in France, the Donation Albers-Honegger. Its mission is threefold: conservation and valorisation of the Albers-Honegger collection; research, centred around temporary exhibitions and artist residencies; education, with mediations and workshops.
Founded in 1990, the eac. holds a collection of abstract art unique in France, the Donation Albers-Honegger. Its mission is threefold: conservation and valorisation of the Albers-Honegger collection; research, centred around temporary exhibitions and artist residencies; education, with mediations and workshops.
Programme
Devenir un artiste concret, Camille Graeser
Trained at the Royal School of Applied Arts in Stuttgart, Camille Graeser (1892-1980) began a career as an architect and graphic designer in 1917. Shortly thereafter, he became interested in pictorial research, favouring the international avant-garde.
Forced to leave Nazi Germany in 1933, Camille Graeser moved to Zurich and devoted himself to painting. Together with Max Bill, Richard Paul Lohse and Verena Loewensberg, he became one of the most important representatives of concrete art in Switzerland.
The exhibitions will focus on the Swiss artist’s work as a designer (decorations and furniture of the 1920s and 1930s) and on paintings, reliefs and sculptures made in the late 1930s.
Head Space, Davide Bertocchi
Residency report "Art & Worlds of work", a device of the Ministry of Culture.
As part of this program, Davide Bertocchi developed a set of works specific to this experience. The title of the exhibition, Head Space, refers directly to the universe of the associated company Azur Fragrances: perfumery. This term refers to a process that allows the extraction of the smell of flowers and rare plants and then to analyze them in order to reconstitute them. Other chemical processes have particularly interested the artist: a way to make the invisible visible.
Filiations 2, dialogue with the Albers-Honegger Donation
Ten years after the first edition, Filiations 2 proposes to a new generation of artists to dialogue with certain "tutelary" figures of the collection in the spaces of the donation. These choices are enriched by their own work so that a dialogue is established beyond the barriers of time and space. The artists invited to participate in this project share specific links with the history of abstraction and its ramifications.
Artists: Karina Bisch, Gabrielle Conilh de Beyssac, Fabien Gharbi, Camila Oliveira Fairclough, Hugo Pernet, Gilles Pourtier, Linda Sanchez, Hugo Schüwer Boss, Xavier Theunis
As well as a selection of artists from the Albers-Honegger Collection: John Armleder, Cécile Bart, Max Bill, Marcelle Cahn, Eduardo Chillida, Sonia Delaunay, Herman de Vries, Piero Dorazio, Christoph Haerle, Gottfried Honegger, Shirley Jaffe, Tatiana Loguine, Olivier Mosset, Aurelie Nemours, Adrian Schiess, Sean Scully, Kimber Smith, Franz Erhard Walther...
Curator : Fabienne Grasser-Fulchéri, assisted by Alexandra Deslys and Claire Spada
Access
July 1 to August 31: daily, 11 am to 7 pm
September 1 to June 30: Wednesday to Sunday, 1:00 to 6:00 p.m. Beginning in September
Château de Mouans
06370 Mouans-Sartoux
+33 (0)4 93 75 71 50
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CULTURE & HERITAGE :
• Les jardins du MIP (Mouans-Sartoux)
• Musée Picasso (Antibes)
• Musée National Fernand Léger (Biot)
• Fondation Hartung (Antibes)
• Musée d'Art Classique (Mougins)
• Fondation Maeght (Saint-Paul-de-Vence)
• Les Musées de Nice
WALKS
• Le Canal de la Siagne, a 46-km walk along the canal dating from the late 19th century, from Saint-Cézaire-sur-Siagne to the sea in Cannes.
• The Parc de la Valmasque and the Étang de Fontmerle, a walk through the garrigue, perfect place for a picnic.
PLACES TO EAT
• Ici T’es Ailleurs : A unique place… Amid horses and stables outside, amid memories of tools and objects from the 1950s inside.
PLACES TO STAY
• Hôtel CasaBella (Mouans-Sartoux)
• Domaine Les Cigales (Mouans-Sartoux)
