Musée Cantini
This private mansion, built in 1694 by the Compagnie du Cap Nègre, was bought in 1709 by the Montgrand families who kept it until 1801. Jules Cantini, an important marble worker who took part in the construction of numerous civil and religious buildings in Marseille under the Second Empire. A great art lover, Jules Cantini donates the building to the City.
With the largest public collection of modern and contemporary art in France after that of the Center Georges Pompidou, the Cantini Museum preserves works by the greatest artists of the first two thirds of the 20th century: Picasso, Matisse, Braque, Kandinsky, Bacon...
This private mansion, built in 1694 by the Compagnie du Cap Nègre, was bought in 1709 by the Montgrand families who kept it until 1801. Jules Cantini, an important marble worker who took part in the construction of numerous civil and religious buildings in Marseille under the Second Empire. A great art lover, Jules Cantini donates the building to the City.
With the largest public collection of modern and contemporary art in France after that of the Center Georges Pompidou, the Cantini Museum preserves works by the greatest artists of the first two thirds of the 20th century: Picasso, Matisse, Braque, Kandinsky, Bacon...
Programme
L’œil objectif
Photographs from the collections, from the modernity of the 1930s to the 2000s
In February 1968, the Musée Cantini presented its first photography exhibition, L'œil objectif, bringing together Doisneau, Brihat, Clergue and Sudre. That same year, Jean-Claude Gautrand (1932-2019), one of the leading figures at the Rencontres d'Arles, was awarded the Grand Prix de la Ville de Marseille for photography. Alongside the Bibliothèque nationale and the Musée Réattu (Arles), the Musée Cantini has played a pioneering role in creating a collection that echoes regional events such as the Rencontres d'Arles and the Avignon Festival.
Drawing on the holdings of the Musée Cantini, the [mac] and the Fonds communal d'art contemporain, L'(œil) objectif offers a fresh overview of the collections, from the optical games of the Nouvelle Vision movement to the documentary work of Valérie Jouve and the stagings of Man Ray, the exhibition offers a broad approach to photography and the diversity of its approaches.
Access
Musée Cantini
19, rue Grignan
13006 Marseille
+33 (0)4 13 94 83 30
musees.marseille.fr
Tuesday to Sunday: 9am – 6pm.
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