Gallifet
Located in an 18th century mansion in the heart of Aix-en-Provence, Gallifet provides a unique hub for those who are passionate about contemporary art. A firm believer that « artists are those best positioned to provide a window onto our times, » Nicolas Mazet opened the doors of this private family property in 2010 to offer visitors the chance to consider our world from another point of view.
Located in an 18th century mansion in the heart of Aix-en-Provence, Gallifet provides a unique hub for those who are passionate about contemporary art. A firm believer that « artists are those best positioned to provide a window onto our times, » Nicolas Mazet opened the doors of this private family property in 2010 to offer visitors the chance to consider our world from another point of view.
Programme
Claude Como - Grandeur Nature
Claude Como’s world is larger than life. If her most recent wall installations depicting giant, fantastical flora and fauna go by the name of « Supernature », then the imposing portraits of women that have been a career constant should perhaps be her « Superportraits », or even, as a homage to their serial painter creator, « Superwomen ».
The prodigious, proliferative nature of her work seems to have found its ultimate form of expression in tufting, an artisanal carpet making technique, that Claude has made her own over a five-year period commencing in 2019. We were first drawn in by the multi-coloured installations climbing hither and yon across the walls of her vast Marseille atelier, discovering only later her earlier, more contemplative portraits and landscapes.
Faces borrowed from history of art float out from flat seas of colour, a world away from her mysterious landscapes, suspended above and below the horizon line that she discovered on moving to Marseille from Paris in 2012. Each is a journey of discovery where she invites the observer to cross over into her imaginary world. Sometimes we lose our footing, vertiginous, in the hanging forests composed of so many buds, so
many leaves, so many fabulous facets of a new form of nature where one shape shifts imperceptibly into the next until we have cut all ties with reality and set sail for a brave new world.
Access
Gallifet
52, rue Cardinale
13100 Aix-en-Provence
+33 (0)9 53 84 37 61
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Until June 1st :
Wednesday to Saturday, 12pm to 6pm
From 1st June :
Tuesday to Sunday, 12 noon to 6pm
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CULTURE & HERITAGE
• Le Pavillon de Vendôme: museum and sumptuous French gardens.
WALKS
• Promenade de la Torse: a riverside park ideal for a country walk.
PLACES TO STAY
• La Maison du Collectionneur: a confidential and intimate address to sleep in the heart of the Mazarin district.
PLACES TO EAT & DRINK
• Mademoiselle Wine: a wine cellar specialising in local champagnes, just a stone's throw from the magnificent Place Richelme market.
• La Méduse: a bar where the welcome is as good as the quality of the wines and the small plates to share.
• Gallifet Kitchen: restaurant in the garden of the Hôtel de Gallifet from June to October.
