Villa Tamaris Centre d'Art TPM
Located in the heart of a pine forest, perched on the heights of a hill right next to the Mediterranean Sea and the bay of Tamaris, Villa Tamaris was built at the end of the nineteenth century by an officer of the Merchant Navy, Blaise Michel Pacha. It extends over 3700 m2. Since it was opened in 1995, this TPM art center has been reflecting the continuous change and constant renewal of painting but has also opened up to all fields of contemporary creation.
As of 2022 "Toulon Provence Méditerranée Metropolis" intends to make Villa Tamaris a place dedicated to photography and endorse the great protagonists of photography and video art of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries
Located in the heart of a pine forest, perched on the heights of a hill right next to the Mediterranean Sea and the bay of Tamaris, Villa Tamaris was built at the end of the nineteenth century by an officer of the Merchant Navy, Blaise Michel Pacha. It extends over 3700 m2. Since it was opened in 1995, this TPM art center has been reflecting the continuous change and constant renewal of painting but has also opened up to all fields of contemporary creation.
As of 2022 "Toulon Provence Méditerranée Metropolis" intends to make Villa Tamaris a place dedicated to photography and endorse the great protagonists of photography and video art of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries
Programme
A time to remember, Flore
Retrospective 1996-2023
FLORE, a Franco-Spanish artist photographer born in 1963, currently lives and works in Paris. Winner of the Prix Nadar (2020), the Prix de l'Académie des beaux-arts - Marc Ladreit de Lacharrière (2018), the Prix Photofolies, city of Rodez (1998) and finalist for the Prix Swiss Life à 4 mains (2020) and the Hariban Award (2017), her series are produced over long periods, often during travels, They have been acquired or presented in prestigious institutions such as the Musée du Petit Palais, the MMP+ in Marrakech, the Mémorial de Rivesaltes, the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, at festivals and international art fairs such as Paris Photo, Photo London, Fotofever, Marrakech Art Fair, Daegu Art Fair and the Snif Art Fair in Osaka.
Through refined technical interventions in the laboratory, like an alchemist herself, FLORE shapes as much as she restores the world that unfolds before her eyes to create unique images that depart from conventional photographic reality, creating a fusion between content and form. In this way, she questions the photographic medium, moving with ease from the oldest techniques such as platinum-palladium or cyanotype to the most modern, sometimes mixing them and physically intervening on the prints with wax, gold or pigments.
Access
Centre d’art, Métropole Toulon Provence Méditerranée
295, avenue de la Grande Maison
83500 La Seyne-sur-Mer
+33 (0)4 94 06 84 00
villatamaris.fr
Every day (except on Mondays and public holidays): 2.30pm - 7pm.
How to get there:
• By bus : N°83 stop Tamaris / N°81 stop Fort Napoléon
• By boat : Line 18M, from the port of Toulon stop Tamaris / Line 8M, from the port of La Seyne-sur-Mer stop Tamaris
• Parking: free around the Villa Tamaris. Adapted PMR places nearby.
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PLACES TO STAY
• Le Georges
• Le Grand Hôtel des Sablettes
• Hôtel Georges Sand
• Hôtel restaurant Le Poséidon
• Villa Les Lys
• Hôtel restaurant La Frégate
• La Mandarinette
• Hôtel Mercure Toulon La Seyne
PLACES TO EAT/DRINK
• Le Georges
• La Tamarisienne
• Le Père Louis
• Restaurant La Jetée
• Le Provence Plage
