Musée National Fernand Léger
Fernand Léger has left a lasting impression on the 20th century through the power of his artistic language and his openness to the changes in the world. Paintings, sculptures, drawings, films, theatre sets, tapestries, mosaics, and ceramics make up the only collection in the world that covers the entire career of the painter. Created by architect André Svetchine in the heart of a Mediterranean park, the museum is surrounded by monumental sculptures.
Fernand Léger has left a lasting impression on the 20th century through the power of his artistic language and his openness to the changes in the world. Paintings, sculptures, drawings, films, theatre sets, tapestries, mosaics, and ceramics make up the only collection in the world that covers the entire career of the painter. Created by architect André Svetchine in the heart of a Mediterranean park, the museum is surrounded by monumental sculptures.
Programme
Léger and the New Realists. The MAMAC collections in Biot
The Fernand Léger national Museum and the MAMAC in Nice are celebrating artistic creativity with an exhibition that brings together the joyful, colorful work of Fernand Léger and must-see works from the MAMAC. Thanks to an unprecedented partnership, works by Niki de Saint-Phalle, Arman, Yves Klein, Raymond Hains, Martial Raysse and César come face to face with the plastic innovations of Léger, one of the pioneers of the 20th century avant-garde
Léger, peintre de la couleur
Since the origins of painting, colour has been the prerogative of painters. Both matter and light, it was the starting point for Fernand Léger's (1981-1955) entire aesthetic approach. Throughout his work, the painter showed a real passion for pure colour, which he used in an infinite range of combinations and variations, in a wide variety of media: drawings, ceramics, stained glass, sets for the world of entertainment and architecture.
Beyond painting, Fernand Léger saw pure colour as a vital, almost therapeutic necessity, which he strove throughout his life to spread across urban landscapes: My need for colour was immediately supported by the street, by the city. It was in me, this need for colour. There was nothing I could do: as soon as I could place a colour, I placed it. I spent as little time as possible in greyness.
Karina Bisch, Immersed in the Scene
For almost 25 years, Karina Bisch (born 1974) has been reinventing modernist motifs, not to quote them, but to circulate and mutate them in the contemporary context. Her work, situated at the intersection of art, architecture and design, questions form as a dynamic structure capable of transcending time while renewing its symbolic charge. The exhibition presents a varied body of work - a series of small-scale paintings, a monumental work, a tapestry and textile creations - as part of an immersive mural designed specifically for the museum's exhibition spaces.
Works by Fernand Léger (drawings, tapestries, etc.), selected by Karina Bisch herself, punctuate the tour. The link with Fernand Léger is built around the power and plasticity of the forms. Like Léger, Karina Bisch explores the potential of the decorative not just as ornament but as an autonomous language, capable of generating meaning and reshaping space.
Access
Musée National Fernand Léger
Chemin du Val-de-Pôme
06410 Biot
+33 (0)4 92 91 50 30
musee-fernandleger.fr
Every day: 10am - 6pm.
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PLACES TO DISCOVER
• Musée d’histoire et de céramique de Biot : installed in a former hospital, this museum space offers an exceptional collection of jars made in Biot.
• Centre d’art du verre Pierini : sculptures, limited series and monumental pieces in glass.
• Galerie Gabel : gathers works of all sides, of confirmed or emerging artists (ceramists, painters, sculptors, glassmakers, mosaicists...).
PLACES TO STAY
• Les Arcades : restaurant and hotel of 12 rooms, with authentic charm in the heart of the village of Biot.
• La Bastide : rooms in a flowery and intimate atmosphere to enjoy a relaxing moment.
PLACES TO EAT
• Les Terraillers : elegant restaurant with Provencal specialties.
• Les Verriers : restaurant in a green setting, nestled at the foot of the medieval village of Biot.
• L'Auberge Crêperie du Vieux Village : friendly place offering pancakes and crepes.
• Café de la Poste : tasty Mediterranean cuisine in an authentic setting. From 13.50 euros for lunch.
