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
Sedimentary partitions, Alassan Diawara & Zineb Sedira
With the participation of residents of Nîmes and the surrounding area.
Alassan Diawara has created a new series of photographs, for which he travelled around Nîmes and the surrounding area for several months, meeting many people. Through slices of life, the young Belgian photographer's images explore youth, the links between different generations in families and communities, and seek to capture a certain essence of the imagination of the Gard and the Camargue. Her photographs are set in dialogue with a body of work by Zineb Sedira, which addresses the subject of family and cultural transmission. The artist, who represented France at the Venice Biennale in 2022, also mentored Alassan Diawara in the construction of his project. The installation presented at Carré d'Art - musée d'art contemporain de Nîmes, conceived jointly by the two artists, offers new perspectives on the ways in which histories and cultures are constructed over generations.
For the duration of the triennial, some of the images produced by Alassan Diawara will also be displayed in the public space, on the façade of the Nîmes-Centre train station and in the lobby of the Nîmes Métropole community hall.
"Partitions sédimentaires" is part of the programme for the Rencontres d'Arles 2024, and is on show until 22 September.
Oracle Museum, Hugo Laporte & Katja Novitskova
At Carré d'Art - musée d'art contemporain de Nîmes, artists Hugo Laporte and Katja Novitskova are proposing the foundations of a museum and archaeological institution from a time we do not yet know, yet not so far from our own. It brings together what could be the traces and artefacts of a future humanity, grappling with increasingly troubling ecological, technological, geopolitical and cultural issues. "Oracle Museum" is built around a fictitious museography, featuring a wide range of objects, images, sounds, mythologies and characters created by the artists using machines and artificial intelligence to show us a future that is still avoidable.
Presented during La Contemporaine de Nîmes, from 5 April to 23 June 2024, then extended until 22 September.
COPIE MACHINE x Carré d’Art : antoine lefebvre editions and Laura Morsch-Kihn
For the 4th edition of its Résidence de recherche et de création, Carré d'Art -Musée d'art contemporain de Nîmes has invited antoine lefebvre editions and Laura Morsch-Kihn to its documentation centre to present an event entitled Copie Machine, as part of the programming associated with the Contemporaine de Nîmes 2024.
Since 2017, Copie Machine has been transforming various venues into Temporary Reprography Zones where anyone can come and publish on a self-service basis. Welcoming all forms of action through photocopying, Copie Machine is an incentive to act and make us act. Photocopying has the capacity to transform us into "both authors and publishers", as McLuhan predicted back in 1967. Based on the principles of copyleft, and accessible to all, Copie Machine makes available to the public over a hundred contributions by artists that can be freely copied under the artlibre licence.
For this new edition, Copie Machine is inviting 10 artist-publishers to make new contributions and take up one-day flash residencies.
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)
