Carré d’Art
Inaugurated in 1993, the Carré d'Art is an architectural work by Norman Foster that houses the museum of contemporary art and the library. The museum has a collection of 500 works, from 1960 to the present day. Launched in 1986, the collection has three main focuses: a panorama of French art, with major movements and groups of singular figures represented; a Mediterranean identity based on the south of France, Spain and Italy; and a presentation of Anglo-Saxon and Germanic trends. In addition to its collection, the museum presents exhibitions of major artists from the French and international scenes.
Inaugurated in 1993, the Carré d'Art is an architectural work by Norman Foster that houses the museum of contemporary art and the library. The museum has a collection of 500 works, from 1960 to the present day. Launched in 1986, the collection has three main focuses: a panorama of French art, with major movements and groups of singular figures represented; a Mediterranean identity based on the south of France, Spain and Italy; and a presentation of Anglo-Saxon and Germanic trends. In addition to its collection, the museum presents exhibitions of major artists from the French and international scenes.
Programme
The Museum of Angels, Lena Vandrey Donation
Lena Vandrey was born in 1941 in Breslau (Germany), which became Wroclaw (Poland) after 1945. In 1958 she moved to Paris then near Barjac in 1967. Died in 2018, she lived in Bourg Saint Andéol in Ardèche where she and her partner have created a Musée des Anges. Friend of Monique Wittig and Niki de Saint Phalle, collected by Dubuffet who nicknamed her "Insomnia", model for Ungaro, Lena Vandrey is one of the singular figures of art. From 1970, she exhibited paintings and sculptures in France, Germany and Switzerland and published poems. Her Amazons present an image of powerful and totally free women. Marked by the war, all her work testifies to her desire to make reparation. Repairing the failings of patriarchal history. Angels, dreams, paradise define a cosmic interpretation of the world.
Her partner Mina Noubadji-Huttenlocher contacted Carré d’Art to make a large donation, Lena Vandrey having lived for many years in Gard near Barjac. Carré d’Art has selected four sets of works that can make sense in the museum’s collection. Angels, Dreams, the Cut-out series and Paradise are series that she developed from the end of the 1990s.
Imagining the future, Aleksandra Kasuba
Event organised as part of the Lithuanian Season in France 2024.
Lithuanian-born US artist Aleksandra Kasuba (born Fledžinskaitė-Kašubienė, 1923–2019) was a visionary of the 20th century space exploration era. A retrospective of her work is constructed as a bright, inspiring narrative about losses and possibilities as well as futures that emerge in the face of turbulent times.
It is the story of Kasuba who was forced to flee her home country after World War II and emigrated to the USA. She studied sculpture and textiles at the Kaunas School of Arts and Vilnius Art Academy in Lithuania. In 1944, as a consequence of the Nazi and Soviet occupations, she fled the country with her sculptor husband, ending up in a displaced-persons camp in Germany until 1947, when the couple moved to America. In 1963, she settled in New York and became an artist creating visionary spatial environments made of tensile fabrics; a story about an imaginary future without right angles as a habitat for
the wandering soul.
Softest Hard, Marija Olšauskaitė
Marija Olšauskaitė is an artist born and based in Vilnius. She uses a variety of collaborative modes and explores themes of relationships, openness, intimacy and belonging. This exhibition focuses on her long affinity with glass. She creates forms that always seem to be in a state of transformation, using both conventional and more contemporary materials such as silicone
The glass screens produced for this exhibition also refer to domestic space, to what can be made visible, to the fragility of relationships. Ponds is a set of large horizontal glass sculptures. Glass production usually requires a light table to discern imperfections. In this case, the relationship between form and function is rethought, with forms becoming impractical and the instrument transformed into a mysterious object reminiscent of a luminous, translucent block of ice. In many of her works, there is a direct reference to Lithuania’s once flourishing glass production
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 Friday, 10 am to 6 pm, Saturday and Sunday, 10 am to 6.30 pm.
Closed on 1st May.
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PLACES TO DISCOVER
• La Maison Carrée (Nîmes)
• Les Arènes (Nîmes)
• Le Musée de la Romanité (Nîmes)
• 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)
