Villa Arson
A jewel of the 1970s architecture, Villa Arson brings together an arts centre, an art school, an artist-in-residence programme, and a library, on a site embellished with a Mediterranean garden offering a panorama of the entire city.
A jewel of the 1970s architecture, Villa Arson brings together an arts centre, an art school, an artist-in-residence programme, and a library, on a site embellished with a Mediterranean garden offering a panorama of the entire city.
Programme
Benoît Piéron – Waiting Room
Benoît Piéron spent part of his childhood in care homes, which he still visits today. This intimate experience of the hospital ecosystem feeds a sensitive and committed body of work in which illness becomes a potential for creation. Far from a guilt-ridden vision, the artist proposes alternative forms of expression and explores the plasticity of illness through a variety of media and practices such as sewing, existential gardening and wallpaper design. He imagines installations, sculptures and objects, often made from reformed hospital sheets, that weave together his personal history and the collective experience of disabled bodies, giving voice to an invisible community.
For Waiting Room, Benoît Piéron continues his exploration of the complex relationships between the body, the medical structures that shape it, and waiting as a singular temporal experience. He transforms the square gallery of Villa Arson into an immersive landscape, inviting us to inhabit a space between reverie and strangeness.
Zoé Aegerter - I’m not a cowboy, Daisy. Music for Laboratory
Zoé Aegerter's exhibition brings together three works of incorporation - incorporation of forms, words and relationships - in which the body regains its full importance as an instrument of knowledge, proposing an unexpected dialogue with artificial intelligence systems.
At the heart of the designer's process is Daisy Bell, a popular song from the late 19th century that has become a sign of a changing era, a technological mutation whose effects we are only just beginning to measure. Originally known as On a Bicycle Made For Two (Harry Dacre, 1892), it was the first song to be reproduced using speech synthesis (Bell Laboratories, IBM, 1961). A few years later, she appeared in Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey as HAL 9000, a character who embodied the threat of artificial intelligence without empathy. In this way, Daisy Bell managed to combine the festive spirit of the music hall with the undeniably ambivalent spirit of a technology that seemed intent on competing with humans.
Access
Villa Arson
20, avenue Stephen-Liegeard
06100 Nice
Tram Le Ray
A8, sortie Nice Nord
+33 (0)4 92 07 73 73
villa-arson.org
Every day except on Tuesday: 2pm - 7pm in July & Aug. ;
2pm - 6pm in Jun. & Sep. Open on 14 Jul. & 15 Aug.
Free entry.
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PLACES TO DISCOVER
• Castle Hill Park : climbing the hill of the Castle to enjoy a royal view of the Baie des Anges, a fresh and timeless walk near the beautiful neo-classical cemetery.
PLACES TO DRINK
• Place du Pin : the inhabitants of Nice call it their “Petit Marais”. Located in the Vieux-Nice.
• Le Negresco : an iconic place with a hotel, two restaurants and a bar.
On the roofs of Nice
All the great beachfront hotels have their rooftop. Ideal for a cocktail, a lunch or a coffee.
PLACES TO STAY
• Le Windsor, Jungle Art Hotel : a charming hotel with bedrooms decorated with contemporary artworks. A beautiful garden to enjoy your breakfast or your cocktails…
• Hôtel Amour : le dernier né de la famille Amour : 38 bedrooms, a restaurant, a swimming pool on the roof, a tree-filled patio, collected objects and furniture.
PLACES TO EAT
• Le Plongeoir : a beachfront Mediterranean gourmet restaurant in a chic setting.
• Bocca : the new food and lifestyle experience in Nice: a sharing restaurant, a luxuriant rooftop and a cheerful atmosphere.
• Le Lavomatique : a bistronomic cuisine, delicious food to share in the old town.
• Le Local : a preserved address in the harbour district, high-quality Italian products and cuisine at an affordable price, elegant service.
• La Buvette du musée Chagall : fast food, a pleasant and bucolic break in the heard of Nice!
Garden of the Chagall Museum, open to all during the Museum’s opening hours.
• Socca du Cours Saleya : a "Nissarde" cuisine as we like it, to go!
On the beach in Nice
• Castel Plage : bistronomic cuisine, sunshades and deckchairs.
• Le Galet : lounge bar, spa and deckchairs, facing the Albert Ier gardens.
