Category: Art

Galerie Oscar of Contemporary Art called home the beautiful Château Cima in Nice on September 6  to showcase the works of eight international artists.

Located in the heart of the natural park of Mont Boron in Nice, the Château La Cima, built in the early 20th century, was the backdrop for the temporary exhibition of eight major painters, sculptors and ceramists.

Exceptional venues for ephemeral exhibitions

The famous Contemporary Art Galerie Oscar in Nice, renowned for its ephemeral exhibitions, is frequented by fine-art collectors and a rich Azuréan clientele always very fond of exceptional places and new talents, coming from France or elsewhere.

Luxury, Beauty and Culture

The handful of upscale handpicked guests could discover, during their stroll through the alleys of the park, around the pools or in the halls of the castle, the talent of artists with many beautiful works scattered in the castle. The splendid park “à la Française”, strangely resembling that of the Parc de Sceaux (designed by the famous architect André Le Nôtre), also was hosting works, while providing a 180 degree view of the bay of Villefranche and Cap Ferrat.

Height international artists

For this evening dedicated to luxury and art, the Nice Galerie Oscar presented the works of eight international artists: Yann Masseyeff (sculptor and ceramist), Marita Occelli (Swedish artist who works glass and ceramics), Peter Engels (Belgian atiste painting vintage sepia-toned portraits  such as Nelson Mandela), Gitte Peters (Danish painter artist), Lisa Rinnevuo (Swedish artist painter), Giancarlo Mazzoni (Colombian architect) Line Thordarson (Finnish sculptor), Remi Pesce (French painter and sculptor based in Saint Paul de Vence).

Sponsors of the event

The event boasted prestigious sponsors: Monaco Luxury Group (which was showcasing a range of Aston Martin cars), Sotheby’s International Realty (real estate company selling luxury properties).

The contemporary art Galerie Oscar

Galerie Oscar is managed by Emilie Janda and Chynine Schapira. Operating on different prestigious venues on the French Riviera, it aims to present a mix of emerging and recognized talents in the world of contemporary visual art on the international scene.
The challenge of Galerie Oscar is to bring the Art of the museum in living and working spaces, and provide the opportunity for Art lovers and collectors to meet around their favorite artists. Galerie Oscar intends to be a privileged, dynamic venue with the main objective of inspiring and creating an atmosphere of experimental art in all its forms.

Château la Cima

Situated on the edge of the Natural Park of Mont Boron, nestled in lush greenery, the Château La Cima is a very nice villa of character built in stone in the early 20th. After World War II, in 1949, the Château La Cima became a residence for the American ambassador.

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Painter Una St Tropez pays a warm tribute to mythic French actress Brigitte Bardot through her exhibition BB Forever at Hotel de Paris in Saint-Tropez.

To celebrate Brigitte Bardot‘s 80th anniversary, famous artist Una St Tropez pays the clearest praise to the iconic french actress by celebrating the beauty of the lady who was the most beautiful women in the world and her exceptional spirit by embracing BB’s values of love and rescue of endangered animals.
The vernissage of the exhibition BB Forever on September 5, 2014, provided a sparkling, elegant and glamorous Tropezian evening with, as guest star, world famous singer Christophe.

BB, the soul of St Tropez

Una St Tropez unveils 16 portraits of Brigitte Bardot, to be admired in the Atrium, enhanced by a dark setting and sculptures. Her minimalist and contemporary perception of the portrait combines with the application of beeswax to offer a highly expressive, intense BB, as vivid in our minds as she was when a star at the firmament of cinema glory. Combining both ancient and modern techniques, Una St Tropez sublimates BB, the myth who still is the soul of St Tropez, present everywhere in the village she made famous.

Glamour and fashion

After a welcoming glass of Champagne, sipped when admiring Una St Tropez’s works of Art, the large audience was invited to continue the evening in the garden of the Hotel de Paris.
The atrium garden hosted the fashion show of the evening with beautiful models Julie, Avaand Anne Laure who were showcasing dresses created by tropezian designers: Pink in St Tropez, Elfie l’Atelier St Tropez, Boutique Fame with make-up by Mini Make Up and accessories by Carmen Steffens.
A contemporary, light and refined fashion, to be worn daily by “made in Saint Tropez” women. The models, both glamorous and chic, had a very tropézien spirit. The outfits worn were accessorized with Carmen Steffens bags. These bags, in limited editions, are hand-made in Brazilian workshops.
To the music of DJ Luigi & Frank, the  fashion was also the occasion of honoring Una St Tropez’s partners: Bertaud Belieu, Ice Tropez, Cavalli Café, Vivre Magazine, Colonial Romantic Travel, Global TV, Audrey Gautier, Fly Pictures and Hotel de Paris.

About Una St Tropez

Artist Una St Tropez discovered Saint Tropez in the late 90s and, having fallen in love with it, decided to set up her studio there, feeling that the place would inspire her best creations. Since then, she has exhibited her paintings throughout the world, in Paris, Cannes, Monaco, Portofino, London, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Doha, Moscow… Her paintings are featured in private collection of HSH Prince Albert of Monaco and Princess Stephanie of Monaco, Members of Brunei, Saudi and UAE Royal family, Van Cleef & Arpels, Cartier, Lanvin, Celine…
A big-hearted artist, Una St Tropez has already in charities for MSF, Children of Lebanon, Tsunami crisis, Hospital in Vienna for terminally ill, Make a Wish Foundation, Magic of Persia…

A raffle for animals

During the opening, a raffle raised funds for the Glama association, working to protect animals, a cause close to BB’s heart through her foundation. As grand prize, Una St Tropez offered for the raffle one of her works, signed by her, with the words “Stop Animal Cruelty”.

Christophe For Ever

To close this opening on an absolute high, guests were treated to a private recital by singer Christophe, whose songs like Les Mots Bleus, Les Paradis Perdus and Aline remain in our memories. Accompanied by the public, the poet at the piano sang all his success, which, having toured the world, returned to delight Una St Tropez’s friends. A surprise gift for all guests.

Exposition BB Forever
Until September 26, 2014
Hotel de Paris – St Tropez

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The first Suquet Des Arts, cultural festival in the old town of Cannes, combining heritage, culture and artists, attracted crowds of tourists and Cannois.

This new summer event for all, a journey of culture in all its forms initiated by Mayor of Cannes David Lisnard, was held during the weekend of August 30 and 31, 2014 throughout the Suquet. All forms of art were presented: painting, photography, sculpture, floral art, street theater, fashion, music and concerts, etc. All these works had as a backdrop, the old stone of squares and streets of the historic town of Cannes.

We live better with Art

On Saturday, August 30, 2014, David Lisnard, Mayor of Cannes, originator of the concept, inaugurated the first edition of Le Suquet Des Arts surrounded by Gilles Cima, Deputy Mayor to the attractiveness of the streets, many politicians and artists involved in the animations. David Lisanrd presented the objectives of the Suquet Arts, opening his speech with these words: “We live better with art, especially in times of economic crisis!”
The event was originally intended to showcase the works of art in an authentic place, crossroads of history and culture. Then the Mayor’s idea is to make artists and craftsmen permanently settle  in Le Suquet, whoses streets would become an artistic journey. Finally, David Lisnard highlighted the pleasure to meet around a work of Art and share in a friendly atmosphere.

Enhancing Cannes heritage

The Mayor of Cannes wants to enhance the roots of Cannes identity while offering a new all-audience event to strengthen the summer attractiveness of the city. In addition to the program of cultural and event season of the Palais des Festivals, the Suquet des Arts boosts local shops in the historic district of the city, while promoting local craftsmen and artists.
Cannes cultural associations mobilized and were deeply involved in the organization of this artistic event: the association Village du Suquet, the association of Moulin Forville, the Association of Fine Arts in Cannes, the Fanfare de l’Espérance, the Conservatory of Music and Theatre of Cannes, the MJC Picaud, Cannes museums, etc.
Over 75 artists took part in the first edition Suquet des Arts many exhibitions and events, making of it a large success.

Many events

Throughout the weekend, entertainment thrilled the Suquet des Arts: concert followed by a dance with live music dance hall on the Place de la Castre, on Saturday; visual art and circus workshops for children; an exhibition of dresses from the 50s in the Moulin Forville; urban art performances, concerts of contemporary, classical or traditional music, a hip-hop show, floral and religious art and a parade of the Fanfare de l’Espérance, marching in the streets of Le Suquet.
Another original idea: jardinières flowered in the streets of the Suquet on the principle of “Incredible Edibles” to launch the concept of shared vegetable garden, the public could help themselves to vegetables or parsley sprigs.

Arts, Gods, Men

As highlight of the event, fashion designer Eva Kiba, since 5 years installed in the Republic Prado district in Cannes, showcased 17 models of dresses, inspired by the classical arts in all forms: theater, dance, painting, literature, etc.
Under the captivated eyes of the Gods, overloking from the stage, and with Le Marki as master of ceremony, Eva Kiba’s fashion show “The Arts, Gods, Men” showed the large audience that Art and Creation, make Men immortal, equal with the Gods. “If Beauty and Art can not save the world, they can at least unite men and make them better”, fashion designer Eva pleaded.

InstaCannes

The pleasure of the Arts celebration was amplified through social networks by the installation an “InstaCannes” terminal Place de la Castre, that allowed everyone to share a friendly moment on their Instagram account and print their photos in real time with the iconic hashtag #mairiedecannes, to have a precious souvenir of the first Suquet des Arts.

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World Premiere of Artchol, the voice of the warrior at Russian Art Festival at Palais des Festivals in Cannes on August 25, 2014.


Major event in Cannes summer season, the Festival of Russian Art presented on August 25 the latest creation of the “The Tale” National Puppet Theater Artchol, the voice of the warrior as world premiere.

Russia in summer time


The Festival of Russian Art that takes place every summer in Cannes is the opportunity to discover the rich culture of the Russian nation and thus contributes to maintain friendly ties between Cannes and Russia for more than a century.

A prestigious theater


Twice welcomed in Cannes, the National Puppet Theater “The Tale” was created in 1979 by the director Liudvig Ustinov. Originally from Abakan, the capital of the Republic of Khakassia, it is considered one of the best Russian national theaters.
He received the highest honors, including several Golden Masks, Russia’s prestigious theatrical prize.
Unique Puppet Theater in Khakassia and south of Krasnoyarsk region, it also enjoys strong popularity among the public and professionals. But the National Puppet Theater “The Tale” is also recognized worldwide.

Traditions and legends


The show Artchol, the voice of the warrior at the Palais des Festivals in Cannes was reserved for children over 12 years. It is inspired from epic poetic works and traditions and legends of Khakassia, the Republic with the millenary history, located in south central Siberia.

Talented leaders

The director of National Puppet Theatre “The Tale” is Igor Okolnikov, Emeritus Master of Arts of the Republic of Khakassia. The artistic director is Sergei Ivannikov, Emeritus Master of Arts of the Republic of Khakassia and the staging of the show “Artchol, the voice of the warrior” is by Maxim Pakhomov, decors by Alexander Alexeev, both from St. Petersburg and music is by Igor Okolnikov.

About Khakassia


The Republic of Khakassia is an autonomous republic of Russia, in the south-central Siberia, north of the Sayan Mountains and Mongolia, between the Republic of Altai in the west and the south of Tuva and the huge Krasnoyarsk Province nn the orth and east which is called “Russia’s Switzerland”.
It looks like a summary of the Siberian terrain: the taiga with vast forests, the grassy steppe with flats, the mountain with the Sayan Mountains. Crossed over three thousand years by nomads, some powerful but short-lived kingdoms were built there, including that of the Tagar time, during which extraordinary high tumulus were erected.
The Khakass are related to Kyrgyz, and their neighbors “Touvains” to the Turco-Mongols. The Republic of Khakassia measures one eighth of France, and has nearly half a million inhabitants.

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Kelly Reemtsen presents her “women with tools” paintings at De Buck Gallery summer exhibition in Saint Paul de Vence.

Accessorize your cocktail dress with a tool belt, that’s what offer works by California artist Kelly Reemtsen, presented at De Buck Gallery in Saint Paul de Vence for the summer exhibition.

A colorful and “menacing” exhibition



Through a harmonious and refined selection of paintings, Kelly Reemtsen presents at Lieven De Buck Gallery characters of ladies from the 50s, a period she is fond of, in very feminine and colorful cocktail dresses, clutching “masculine” carpentry, electrical or gardening tools.
A lady holding an impressive pruning shears and wearing a bright pink dress, another woman in a blue dress carrying at arms’ length an electric saw, another wearing a pink polka dot dress holding at the shoulder a neon yellow garden hose, appear to visitors as threats.

Contemporary post-feminism

Bright candy colors motivate her passion that is reflected in her now emblematic work of a woman with a tool. It transports the viewer into a world of contradiction between the worn garment, a vintage party dress, and the current situation, in which appears to be stereotypical 1950s housewives.
The paintings also have the distinction of rarely revealing heads or faces. They are hidden or only guessed, which leaves the visitor with a strange and mysterious feel to these anonymous ladies, wearing a tool associated with “masculin”.

About Kelly Reemtsen

Kelly Reemtsen was born in 1967 in Flint, Michigan. From 1985 to 1990, she studied fashion design, fine Art, painting at the Central Michigan University and California State University in Long Beach. 
Currently the artist lives and works in Los Angeles. 
Works by Kelly Reemtsen are permanently on display at the De Buck Gallery in New York and Skidmore Contemporary Art in Santa Monica.

Saint Paul de Vence, a village of art



Saint Paul de Vence is one of the most beautiful villages of France and enjoys an international reputation. Art reigns supreme in this unique historic site, perched on a rocky outcrop and surrounded by ramparts. Lieven de Buck has installed its new art gallery in the green setting of his beautiful villa near the Maeght Foundation.

About Lieven De Buck

Lieven De Buck worked for 25 years for his friend Guy Pieters, who opened his gallery in Knokke le Zoute in the early 70s. He was director of Guy Pieters gallery in Saint Paul de Vence. With years of experience, Lieven De Buck opened his own gallery in Saint Paul with his wife Dorothee, in his house where he continues to work every day of the week without a break, including weekends.

De Buck Gallery
50, chemin des Trioux
06570 – Saint Paul de Vence – +33 6 40 88 38 86

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lieven@debuckgallery.com

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The musical Paris! Le Spectacle, inspired by post-war songs, premiered on August 10, 2014, at the Theatre de Verdure in Nice, performed by Nice singers.

After the success of Edith, the musical that boasted more than 120 sold-out concerts worldwide, Gil Marsalla, producer and director from Nice, returns with a new show highlighting a unique in the world musical repertoire, Paris! Le Spectacle (Paris! The show).

Flonflons with Montmartre accent

The décors and costumes transport us from the Butte Montmartre to the scene of Parisian cabarets of the time, on a repertoire of classics performed by an exceptional cast of Nice singers: Edith Piaf, Maurice Chevalier, Lucienne Boyer, Charles Trenet, Josephine Baker, Yves Montand, Charles Aznavour, Jacques Brel, etc.

Greatest hits of the 50s

The musical Paris! Le Spectacle, which celebrates the major post-war classics, proves once again that the songs of the 50s are not old-fashioned. Rather, they make a splash, much like the tours of our idols of yéyé years and 80s, proving that there is still in our collective memory a certain nostalgia for that time both serious and joyful. Serious, as they are difficult post-war years and happy because this is the period when everything becomes possible: love, friendship and celebration.
The staging of this exceptional show, the sets, costumes, songs, are offering a superb tableau to viewers who experienced this post-war period. The characters will remind them memories about being twenty, as they give themselves to the sound of hits of the 50s.

A romantic story

In the musical Paris! Le Spectacle, more than 30 French hits are revisited. On the tunes of yesteryear, is brewing a romantic story as it would have been unimaginable in Paris in the fifties: that of Françoise, a girl who dreams of becoming a famous artist in Paris, and arrives in Montmartre.
On her way, she’ll cross paths with Edith Piaf who will become her friend, her confidante, her soul mate. Françoise will find love in the person of Julien, penniless singer living in Pigalle. A romance grows between them in a city where love always triumphs!

The interpreters

The role of La Môme (Piaf) is played by a tiny woman of 26 years, Anne Carrere, “the revelation of the show” after Gil Marsala. Stephanie Grison-Impoco and Julien Grison, both from Nice, play the two lovers in the musical “Paris”.

World Tour to come

This Premiere in Nice will be followed by a presentation in August 2014 at the International Festival of Chihuahua, Mexico where France will be the guest of honor. It will then go on tour around the world from 2015.

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Russian painter Alexandra Otieva exhibited her flower compositions on August 2 and 3, 2014 in the enchanting setting of La Rotonde Lenotre in Beaulieu sur Mer.

After exhibitions in France and around the world, Russian painter Alexandra Otieva staged some sixty paintings in the elegant setting of La Rotonde de Beaulieu to stir and surprise the visitor with works in pastels and floral colors, with summer and Mediterranean accents and flavors.

An exhibition on three themes

The works of Art were distributed into three sequence: flowers, playing with their velvet petals; still-life with decoratives accents and the strange attractiveness of nebulous landscapes, that slowly instill the visitors minds with a soul wandering in a world made of imaginary natures and evocations.

Art and luxury

The opening on the evening of August 2 was placed under the sign of art and luxury. Elegant windows exposed jewelry collections of the prestigious jeweler Fred in Cannes. A musical duo, consisting of a pianist and a violinist, charmed guests strolling among the works of the artist, a glass of Champagne from the famous house Collet in hand, while feasting on culinary delights, biscuits and sweets concocted by Lenotre chefs.

Fireworks

The evening took place inside the majestic dome of the rotunda and on the terrace overlooking the sea. The comfortably seated guests could friendiy discuss in the warm summer evening that dragged on in a pleasant atmosphere tinted with serenity and calm. Fireworks offered by the jeweler Fred closed up this evening of culture and elegance.
The artist Alexandra Otevia was wearing a dress composed of large flower on pink background, representing her favorite painting, a creation by designer Valeria Shipilova.

About Alexandra Otieva

The artist was born in Saratov in Russia. She has always been painting and practiced her artistry through her travels. Alongside her studies at the Saratov University of International Economics, she studied art with artists already known in Russia. During this period of growth and artistic synergy that has lasted more than 15 years, she has exhibited her watercolors in galleries in Russia and France.

Light, seasons, floral fireworks

Fell under the spell of the Great Blue, Alexandra Otieva settled on the French Riviera between sea and mountain in 2004 to devote herself entirely to her art. Her chosen field: floral compositions and light effects related to the change of seasons.
According to her, watercolor is a story of mixed feelings. As an ode to her Slavic origin, harmony, poetry and melancholy flow into her works. Beautiful frames, gilded with fine gold, enhance her paintings by giving them an attractive vision.

La Rotonde Lenotre, historical heritage

A true architectural masterpiece of the Belle Epoque, the Rotunda was once the dining room of former Hotel Bristol. Topped with a dome flooding it with light, this majestic circular building is now listed in the supplementary inventory of historic monuments. Pilasters, carved columns and benevolent angels make La Rotonde an elegant pavilion, typical of coastal climate stations from the early twentieth century.
Ideally located 8 km from Nice and 10 km from the center of Monaco, La Rotonde Lenotre occupies a privileged place in Beaulieu-sur-Mer where the sea meets the mountains in a tropical paradise. Overlooking the marina, the Salons de la Rotonde Lenotre offer stunning views of the sea and its shores lined with palm trees.

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The Hippodrome Cote d’Azur and the city of Cagnes-sur-Mer joined on July 25, 2014 to pay tribute to the sculptor Sacha Sosno, disappeared Dec. 3, 2013.

The race night was dedicated to him and a major exhibition of his work took place in the Hippodrome, to last until August 9, 2014, in addition to a large sculpture permanently set at the entrance of the premices.

Art meets Sport

For the fourth consecutive year, the town of Cagnes-sur-Mer and the Hippodrome Cote d’Azur invited Cagnois and tourists on the French Riviera to live privileged moments when the world of art and sports come together for the pleasure of the eye. First, the racecourse invited to inauguration of the exhibition of the artist who brings together a selection of lithographs and métallogravures.
One can discover a horse carved into a steel plate and an ancient torso “oblitéré” (erased), lent by Masha Sosno, his widow. The works are presented outside as well as in the weighing room. Then, one could attend the Grand Prix Hippique of the City of Cagnes-sur-Mer on the occasion of the Summer Meeting.

A highly anticipated date

The tribute to Sacha Sosno was one of the most anticipated dates of the Racecourse Summer Meeting at Cagnes-sur-Mer. The sculptor-painter-visual artist from the School of Nice died on December 3, 2013 in Monaco at the age of 76. Sosno was a fan of horse racing as evidenced by his assiduous visits on the Hippodrome Cote d’Azur.
He is the creator of the famous “Square Head”, a 7-floor, 28-meter high aluminum sculpture which is housing the Central Library of Nice close to Place Garibaldi. The 26-meter high sculpture in bronze and granite at Hotel Elysée Palace done in 1988 made had already the famous artist.

Sosno at Hippodrome Cote d’Azur

At the main entrance stands a stately and magnificent bronze sculpture of 3.50 meters high weighing 2.8 tons, representing a solid block crossed by a stallion at full speed entitled “Il n’y a plus d’obstacle” (there are no obstacles), created in 2007 and donated to the city.
The posthumous appointment with the artist was made in the presence of Louis Negre, Senator-Mayor of the city of Cagnes-sur-Mer, Lionel Lucas, MP, François Forcioli-Conti, President of the Société des Courses Nice-Côte d’Azur,  and Sacha Sosno’s executrix Ms. Alexandra Masson-Bettati.

An emotional tribute

In their statement, the personalities all paid a moving tribute to Sosno. The mayor said “This is a winning trio!”, involving the artist, the President François Forcioli-Conti, and himself as craftsmen who helped by their willingness and tenacity to revive Sosno, with the implementation of his major work “There is no obstacle.”
Ms. Alexandra Bettati evoked the future installation of the second habitable sculpture “Good Watcher” by Sosno on the site of the new shopping center Polygone Riviera in Cagnes-sur-Mer.

Sport, culture and charity

During the evening, the public could buy beautiful postcards representing the artist’s creations. The benefits were intended to Handi Mobile Equitation, the charity that helps people with disabilities to access riding with suitable equipment.
The great night of racing featuring the greatest trot jockeys, was marked by the main event, the Grand Prix of the City of Cagnes-sur-Mer – Sacha Sosno”. This race was won by Roller Quick, trained and driven by Jean Uroz. The winner of this event was given a replica of Sosno’s sculpture “There is no obstacle.” Each year the annual Grand Prix of the City of Cagnes-sur-Mer attracts more than 6,000 people on the site of the Hippodrome Cote d’Azur, making it the most attended evening of the Summer Meeting.

An unforgettable free show

This year, over 5,000 invitations were distributed free by the Tourist Office for the Grand Prix of the City of Cagnes-sur-Mer. The public was able to attend the races of the day, who carried high the colors of the city.
A cabaret revue, “Voyage in the Mediterranean”, took the audience into a fairy of costume and light through various tableaux between every race on the podium situated opposite the grandstand. Younger could enjoy the free entertainment that were specially devoted to them: pony rides, riding carousel, pedal horses, bouncy and creative workshop on the theme of horses.

Thousand lights in Cagnes sky

At the end of the last horse race and as an apotheosis to close this summer evening, a magical fireworks kindled fires in the Mediterranean sky of Cagnes-sur-Mer to celebrate with light horses and horse racing and artist Sacha Sosno.

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To celebrate its twentieth anniversary, Chateau Roubine offered a sublime performance of Carmina Burana under a starry sky in its the gorgeous park.

For the fourth edition of its Voix en Vigne Festival, two special evenings at Chateau Roubine enchanted wine lovers and music lovers under the stars of summer nights. Two concerts on July 9 and 11, in the heart of its beautiful park surrounded by vineyards, with the Chateau Roubine in the background, offered a stunning light and music show, the opportunity to enjoy music and wine.

Music and wine bring people together

Wine brings closer and creates conviviality around the table, and the Art of making an exceptional wine also brings together men and women around the Art to sublimate exchanges between wine and artistic traditions.
To open the coteaux on new cultural horizons, Valérie Rousselle, owner of Chateau Rubin, had the idea four years ago of launching the Voix en Vigne Festival.
The Festival d’Art Lyrique is based on themes inspired by the vine and wine in combination with music and voice with a choice of prestigious musical works performed in magic summer starry skies.
Air, water, earth and fire were the themes animating the first editions of Voix en Vigne and the cultural programming will continue in the coming years around the five senses.

Carmina Burana

On July 9, a Mozart Evening opened Voix en Vigne with the opening of the Magic Flute, followed by the Requiem. At its birthday evening on July 11, Chateau Roubine welcomed the National Symphony Orchestra of Moldova Radio and Television and its soloists, with the participation of soprano Sandrine Sutter. After interpreting the Opening For an Academic Festival by Johannes Brahms, 180 musicians and singers have interpreted Carmina Burana by Carl Orff, in the original version.
Carmina Burana is a tribute to the goddess Fortuna with an exaltation of spring and a celebration of love, composed in 1936 by the German Carl Orff after students medieval poems from twelfth and thirteenth centuries.

A major choral ensemble

The 130 singers were from the Choir of the Lorgues Choral Ensemble, under the direction of Florence Leroux-Ghristi, completed by the exceptional participation of PACA Regional Choir under the direction of Michel Piquemal. Conductor Henry Gallois brilliantly conducted the orchestra and choir for a majestic and grandiose interpretation of Carmina Burana.
The soloists of the National Symphony Orchestra of Moldova Radio and Television were the Soprano Tatiana Costiuc, Tenor Timofti Ion, Baritone Andrei Oltean. The mezzo-soprano Sandrine Sutter also delighted the audience with her crystal voice.

Fireworks and tasting

To make the celebration even more beautiful, magnificent fireworks were fired at the end of the concert. It majestically set the night sky ablaze for the delight of the large audience who came to revel in this night dedicated to music and lyricism. After the birthday feast, the audience could enjoy a tasting of delicious Chateau Roubine wines.

About Chateau Roubine

In the heart of the Var, between Draguignan and Lorgues, Chateau Roubine, one of the oldest vineyards in France, has always been attached to the history of Provence. Since 1994, several investments have been made, giving the estate advanced winemaking equipment to best expose the richness of its soil and nature. Owning since 1953 the title “Cru Classé”, Chateau Roubine developed unique and prestigious vintages, Inspire, Terre de Croix, which reflect the best of Cru Classé de Provence.
Valérie Rousselle, always striving to making her vineyards more attractive to visitors, has implemented an attractive wine tourism offer: a guest house, the Mas des Candeliers, a Vigneron path, courses of Provencal cuisine and many cultural events, exhibitions and concerts.

See also Voix en Vigne Festival 2013

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Prestigious Château Sainte Roseline vineyard is hosting, for the fourteenth consecutive year, its great summer exhibition presenting sculptures by Bernard Pagès.

Prestigious summer exhibitions

If there is a not-to-be-missed exhibition during your trip in Provence, it is that of Château Sainte Roseline vineyard in the Var, which is presenting monumental sculptures by famous French artist Bernard Pagès. He succeeds Jim Dine, Robert Courtright, Bruno Romeda, Rotraut, César, William SweetLove, and many others. The artist’s works are exhibited for three months in the gardens, vineyards and sales cellar. Feel free to come and discover them leisurely in this magical place entirely dedicated to the art of living in all its forms with a major cultural dimension.

Pagès, artist assembler

Bernard Pagès was born in Cahors in 1940. He arrives in 1959 in Paris and attends the Atelier d’Art Sacré, place Furstenberg, where he initiates to sculpture. Since 1965, he works in the hinterland of Nice where he uses plaster, clay, wood, stone. He met Claude Viallat, Bernar Venet, Erik Dietman…
After participating in the Nouveaux Réalistes exhibition in Nice, he abandoned painting and traditional sculpture. Pagès then joined the 10 painters of Support-Surface movement; there, he is, with Grand, the second sculptor. But he left the movement in 1971 to work alone.

Giving a second life to materials

To achieve his sculptures, he uses abandoned materials and develops his Assemblages (assemblies) of bricks, wood, tile, stone, gravel, pipes, colored masonry, steel beams, ruffled metal sheets… He frees materials or unused machines of their daily current use and gives them a seond life by combining them in a surprisingly and sometimes incongruous way. This out-of-situation use of materials to do something else creates a discrepancy that turns instrumental into to art.
In 1983, the Pompidou Center offers Pagès a major exhibition and from there, he created monumental works. In the 90s, his sculptures evolve into oblique or apparently imbalance works. Over time, his work focuses on more colorful and baroque sculptures.

Château Sainte Roseline

Château Sainte Roseline is ideally located thirty minutes from the Bay of Saint-Tropez, the Cannes Croisette and the Gorges du Verdon. Château Sainte Roseline is a wine Cru Classé Vin de Provence. Pioneer of oenotourism in France, it is also a cultural gateway and an event venue.
Oenotourism is an harmonious marriage of wine, terroir, landscapes, culture, vineyards, history, heritage, men, know-being and know-how. Since 1997, Château Sainte Roseline boats a wine tourism qualified, structured, professional offer by cleverly marrying all these riches. This beautiful estate also offers plenty of space to accommodate business and social events: the Salle des Barriques (renovated in 2011), the Salle des Vendanges (renovated in 2013), the Caveau (renovated in 2011), the Tasting Room.

Chapelle Sainte Roseline

Located in the heart of the vineyard, the Sainte Roseline Chapel contains a variety of historical and architectural treasures related to the history of the region, of which, the Chapel is the flagship. A renowned place of worship and meditation and true work of art, it has been housing since 1329, the body of the venerated Saint Roseline, who is resting in liturgical vestments in a crystal reliquary. Great artists have celebrated her: Marc Chagall, with a remarkable mosaic The Angels Meal, Jean Bazaine and Raoul Ubac by their flamboyant windows, Diego Giacometti by a bronze bas-relief and lectern (Marguerite Maeght’s donation in 1976). An altarpiece, by the Brea school, represents Sainte Roseline, the Marquis and Marchioness of Villeneuve, his parents, in a nativity scene.

Sculptures by Bernard Pagès
Château Sainte Roseline.
From June 30 to September 30, 2014

www.sainte-roseline.com

Discover last year exhibition at Sainte Roseline: Bruno Romeda and Robert Courtright.

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The summer exhibition “Plus loin en Méditerranée” at the Musée de la Mer in Cannes pays tribute to the renowned photographer and visual artist Dolores Marat.

Born in Paris in 1944, the discreet photographer plunges us through numerous clichés in urban environments such as Paris and New York, some interiors and unreal societies and their frozen population. Dolores Marat’s photos express joy and melancholy, interspersed with strangeness. The artist uses a method of carbon print, the Fresson process.

Mediterranean voyages

Since 2005, the artist poses her gaze on the countries bordering the Mediterranean. Her Mediterranean voyages successively led Dolorés Marlat in Marseille, Bastia, Tunisia, Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Italy.
Until 2013, she interacted with the great light of the Mediterranean to give this majestic exhibition. The artist brings us a part of of her work and invites us to wander through the photos of “Plus loin en Méditerranée” (Further in Mediterranean).
Fascinated by these places and mythical cities, Dolores Marat focuses on the immutable aspect of this old world, because according to her, these images provoke the imagination of the beholder. Her gaze wonders about the ongoing struggle between civilization and its boundaries, the city and the wilderness, which seems to spread unabated.

Pursuing the quest

Thus, many characters, places, objects, fragments, seemingly trivial, or just decorative elements, are diverted by the artist. With talent, she turns them into magical and unreal photographs, offering a world of solar landscapes, of sculptures, characters, unusual and iconic ruins.
The exhibition proposed at Musée de la Mer gathers some 70 images. “Further”,  in the title of the exhibition, features Dolores Marat introduction of a new way, but also the ability of the artist photographer to pursue her quest, her search towards different horizons, either technical or thematic.

The Musée de la Mer

The Musée de la Mer is located off of Cannes, in the Fort Royal on Île Sainte-Marguerite. In addition to the focus on underwater and terrestrial archeology, the Museum of the Sea hosts every summer exhibitions of photographers, artists or globetrotters. One can also visit the old state prison and the famous cell of the Iron Mask where a mysterious prisoner was imprisoned for eleven years.

Musée de la Mer – Ile Sainte Marguerite – Cannes.
Embarcadère Gare Maritime, Quai Laubeuf
June to September: 10:00 a.m. – 5:45 p.m. – Open every day without interruption
Tel: 33 (0)4 93 38 55 26

www.cannes.com

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Cannes summer exhibition explores the influence of the African Primitive Arts on contemporary art in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Either originating from Africa, Asia, Oceania, Far North or the Americas, the Primitive Arts share the singularity of being implemented by the artists who created before their works were qualified of “art”. Yet, they inspired many contemporary artists such as Picasso.

Africa inspires artists

The exhibition “De l’expressivité primitive au regard inspiré” (From primitive expression to inspired look), exclusively and for the first time in Europe, brings together the works of 90 artists from all eras and continents, in a single exhibition. The works are divided between the Villa Domergue, the Centre d’Art de la Malmaison, in connection with the exceptional Arts Premiers collection of the Castre Museum.
De l’expressivité primitive au regard inspiré synthetically explores the influence of this founding African culture on contemporary art in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Three exceptional sites

More than 200 works are housed on the two magnificent museums in the city of Cannes: the sumptuous Villa Domergue, located on the heights of Cannes, where you can admire a nude of Josephine Baker painted by Jean Gabriel Domergue. Among the works on display, the work of Marc Piano and his amazing puzzle of terracotta horns in a square of plexiglass is sure to move you.
The Malmaison Art Center, a beautiful villa enthroned in the center of La Croisette, facing the Mediterranean, showcases 160 African Primitive Arts sculptures from the Jean Ferrero collection. Paintings, assemblages, collages from private collections are gathered on 280 m2, in connection with the exceptional collection of Primitive Arts from La Castre Museum located at the top of the hill of historic Cannes, Le Suquet.
Both enchanting places of the city of Festivals make dialogue with each other African sculptures and a selection of more contemporary works, reflecting forms of primitive art. The exhibited artists have all had a very strong relationship with the tribal art in the fields of painting, sculpture, assemblage, installation and photography.

Dialogue between tribal and contemporary art

During your stroll you can explore the expressive power of the sculptures of Jean Ferrero collection, shown for the first time in Europe. A set of statuettes used during rituals in Africa sit alongside those in terracotta assembled by Arman.
A compression by Cesar evoking an ancient skull, a bronze idol by Moya, Giacometti’s cubic terracotta head, paintings by Combas, a black and white drawing where closed, frozen faces recall Picasso’s African masks or Franta’s bronzes. This Vence artist, painter and sculptor of Czech origin, who has worked on a variety of women naked body, will fascinate you. The artist’s work is nurtured by a dozen trips to Africa and his meeting with the Ma-sai tribes which strongly influenced all his work. His interest particularly focuses on man reduced to a minimum, simply linked with the sky, the earth and essential materials.

Three sites, one Cannes PassExpo

For the first time, the city of Cannes offers visitors a joint ticket, the Cannes PassExpo, allowing them to immerse themselves in an genuine course around this vast topic. This ticket allows you to discover the exceptional collection of primitive art at museum La Castre – partly collected in the nineteenth century by Baron Lycklama – and the summer Art exhibition at the Centre d’Art La Malmaison and the Villa Domergue.

Exhibition “De l’expressivité primitive au regard inspiré”
Centre d’Art de la Malmaison: June 28 to October 26, 2014
Villa Domergue: June 28 to September 28, 2014
La Castre Museum: open daily in summer.

www.cannes.com

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During the summer, the 16th edition of Art et Vin turns the Var wine Chateaux into open air art galleries showcasing paintings, sculptures, photos and installations.

Winemakers are artists who so well know to marry man to earth and their work of sublimation of nature matches the one of plastic arts artists who give spiritual dimensions to the material they master. The Art et Vin exhibitions, organized by the Fédération des Vignerons Indépendants du Var, belongs to the oenotouristic events in Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur. The program of this summer feast for the eyes and the palate was presented at Chateau de Toasc, in Nice in the heart of the famous Bellet vineyards.

Architecture and heritage in the spotlight

The 2014 edition of Art et Vin, running from July 1 to August 31, is themed architecture and heritage. Considered the mother of all arts until the 17th century, architecture boasts its artistic and humanistic dimension today with large urban and landscape works. Artists, architects and landscape architects are always closely linked as they establish together the heritage. The Var castles and vineyard landscapes are valuable witnesses of their art and commitment.

Oustanding sites

Winemakers wish to raise awareness of their treasures of ancient architectures, often classified, of modern, environmentally friendly cellars, and outstanding vineyards, gardens, parks and woods sights.
The Terres de Saint-Hilaire has an abbey built in the 17th century on the site of a Roman temple dedicated to Hercules, and the Commanderie de Peyrassol was a Templar Commandery founded in early 13th century.

Prestigious artists

To highlight this heritage and artists they like, winemakers and artists strived to install in indoor and outdoor artworks on the best place in vineyards.
That goes from the monumental sculptures of famous Bernar Venet at the Chateau d’Astros in Vidauban to painters, sculptors and designers as Alejandro Tobon and José Fernando Munoz at the Chateau Saint-Martin in Taradeau. Photography is put forward with David Dahan and Just Cage at Chateau Thuerry in Villecroze. 
Another celebrity, Jean-Pierre Rives, presents his works at Terres de Saint-Hilaire in Ollières.

A feast for the eyes and taste

Either through the concept, the material, the shape or texture, many artists see the the Art et Vin event as a unique way to establish a close relationship between the nature, location and memory. Some other winegrowers/artists duos simply use the meeting to invite their customers and their friends to a feast for the eyes and taste…

Bellet wines

At Chateau de Toasc, after the presentation of Art et Vin agenda and artists, Bellet wines producers gathered to let the attendees taste their world famous wines. The hills of Bellet count a dozen winegrowers, deeply committed to tradition and quality. The Bellet vines are growing under the sun on the “poundingue”, made of ancient pebbles, at 200 – 300 meters in altitude, gently brushed by the wind from the plains.
The Chateau de Tasc is offering an AOC Bellet for the wine, an AOC Olive de Nice for its olive oil and boast its love of Ecole de Nice artists.

Chateau and artists of Art et Vin

Commanderie de Peyrassol (Flassans sur Issole): Carsten HÖLLER
Domaine de l’Amaurigue (Le Luc en Provence): Nicolas JONVAL, Karine VILLARD, Viviane ALBERTI dite VAP, Olivier COURTY
Château des Demoiselles (La Motte) : Jean LERIN
Château du Rouët (Le Muy): Daniel VAN DE VELDE and Laurent INQUIMBERT
Château Saint-Martin (Taradeau): Colombian collectif
Château Mentone (Saint Antonin du Var): Alfredo LOPEZ
Domaine d’Astros (Vidauban): Bernar VENET
Domaine des Escaravatiers (Puget-sur-Argens): LE. K
Château Saint-Maur (Cogolin): Judith WILLAME
Domaine de La Croix et de la Bastide Blanche (La Croix Valmer): Véronique WIRTH and Clément FERRARI
Terres de Saint Hilaire (Ollières): Jean-Pierre RIVES
Château Thuerry (Villecroze): David DAHAN and JUST CAGE
Domaine du Deffends (Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume): Ysabeau TAY-BOTNER
Domaine du Fogolar (Nice): Nicolas CALLUAUD and Astrit HIZMAJ

The Art et Vin Chateaux, artist and exhibition vernissages are on:  www.art-et-vin.net

For the summer-autumn 2014, the Musée Magnelli – Museum of Ceramics in Vallauris hosts a selection of unique ceramic artists friends of the Maeght family.

At Vallauris, the origin of ceramics dates back to ancient times and was the main activity of the city in the seventeenth century, building its international reputation as capital of ceramics. The Musée Magnelli  and the Museum of Ceramics are housed in a Renaissance castle, a former priory of the Abbey of Lérins, which also houses the National Picasso Museum “War and Peace.”

Maeght in Vallauris

As part of its fiftieth anniversary, celebrated this year, the Maeght Foundation wished to have the public discover at the Magnelli Museum – Museum of Ceramics in Vallauris some masterpieces by artists as diverse as talented in their confrontation with the material as in their  artistic expressions.
“Ceramics is a passion for the Maeght” Isabelle Maeght, co-curator of the exhibition, explains. “And I’m very happy that it is highlighted in this beautiful setting that is the Museum of Vallauris.”

Forty years of artistic ceramics

The oldest are those of Braque, Chagall and Miro. They interact with the latest works by Tal Coat, Chillida, Fiedler, Monory, Gardy-Artigas and Del Re. These artists, painters, sculptors or ceramists, have often learned about and experienced clay and its marriage with fire in Maeght family’s ceramic workshop. The exhibition shows how the artists have apprehended this earth and transposed into ceramic the strength of their art, sublimating this material, known since immemorial time.

Del Re

Freedom, imagination and poetry are at the heart of his work. We can see in ceramics how his fingers “scratched” the clay, an earth that is raw, burnt, in which faces are represented…

Miro

Childhood friend of Artigas, Miro began ceramics in 1946 and realized the largest and finest collection of ceramic works in the world, with that of Picasso. In each of his works, all unique, there is a whole world: women, men, star or moon…

Braque

Braque created in all ten works in ceramics, some, published in thirty copies. The exhibition presents works in which we find the Greek theogony of his time Greek period, including the exceptional 1940 Vase with Heads Horses or Waltz from 1960.

Monory

An Egyptian-shaped dog, very dignified, full of nobility, looking on guard, with a blue painted ear. Performed for Aimé Maeght 70th birthday, the work is called “For Aimé’s beautiful blue eyes”. Monory has tried to ceramics but didn’t felt comfortable with it.

Fiedler

The painter was introduced to ceramics in the Maeght workshop and there made all his works in a fortnight. This was enough for the artist, who having understood the clay with remarkable swiftness, produced masterpieces worked by totally forgetting the material, in a kind of total freedom.

Chillida

The presented masterpieces by this “blacksmith artist” are grog clays created in the Maeght workshop in Saint Paul de Vence, with the earth of the place, containing iron oxide, that give his powerful pieces a specific color.

Chagall

The artist made his ceramic work in Vallauris in the 50s in the Madura workshop, cohabiting there with Picasso. In ceramics, Chagall is in the “immediacy”; the plates presented show different treatments by the artist.

Tal Coat

The artist, who made the mosaic wall of the Maeght Foundation in flint and pieces of marble, has always been fascinated by the art of the Lascaux caves. His ceramics seem to be coming from there.

Artigas

Artigas, Miro’s ceramist, is one of the greatest potters of this century. He renewed the ceramic art in all its forms and in its colors after learning, in the 20s, the Koreans technical art, both in terms of cooking and application of ceramics.

Joanet Gardy-Artigas

The son of Artigas, who worked with Miro, Braque, Duffy, is a sculptor and ceramist, showing a total zen attitude in his works.

The exhibition at Musée Magnelli illustrates the long friendship between the Maeght and Vallauris, through a shared passion for ceramics. Spurred on by the new Mayor of Vallauris, Michelle Salucki, the cultural policy of the City is revitalized, and with dynamism, will multiply cultural actions and art venues.

www.vallauris-golfe-juan.fr

www.fondation-maeght.com

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From June 6 to August 15, 2014, Cannes is the fashion capital for the 12th edition of the International Festival of Fashion Photography with Chico Bialas as guest of honor.

Hundred and fifty enlargements of photographs of fashion and beauty will be deployed from June 6 to August 15, 2014 in the city of Cannes on the Croisette, from the gardens of the Roseraie transformed for the occasion into open-air gallery. The exhibition will continue indoors at the Palm Beach Casino and the Espace Miramar, providing high visibility to a wider audience.

Chico Bialas guest of honor

Chico Bialas is a German fashion photographer who, since 1980, has photographed the most beautiful women in the world for magazines like Marie Claire, Vogue, Elle, Cosmopolitan, Grazzia, Donna, Amica…
Chico Bialas is known for its colorful, joyous and vibrant images. He advocates the use of a long focal length, which accentuates the very shallow depth of field and blurs backgrounds who become some kind of paintings. He was very inspired by Italian cinema for its fashion series in black and white, a mixture of eroticism and humor, with highly contrasting lights.
Photographer Chico Bialas has the art of telling funny, sensual and exotic stories with his lense, creating staged beautiful fashion photography. He paints the movement while capturing the perfect snapshot of a smile, a gesture, an expression such as the sublime picture of Monica Bellucci, with closed eyes in black dress and high heels on the beach in Nice.

Works of Art in large formats

A million visitors attended in 2013 the outer and inner journey of Festival Photo Mode to admire the large format exhibition of over one hundred and fifty works of influential or unknown fashion photographers. If May is the month of cinema in Cannes, June, July and August have adopted the Eighth art, which is just as attractive and fascinating. “There are eternal images,” said Jeanloup Sieff, “reaching the sublimation of the woman or beauty seized in privileged moments.” This is the invitation offered by the Festival.

Prestigious awards

The jury of the International Festival of Fashion Photography 2014, composed of personalities from the world of photography, will award three prizes for creativity, imagination, boldness of the composition and ability to inspire dream.
Will be awarded:

– The Grand Prix of Fashion Photography 2014

– Young Talent Award of Fashion Photography 2014


- The award for Beauty Photography 2014.

Fashion Photography Exhibitions

Croisette roseraie : June 15 to August 15, 2014


Palm Beach Casino: June 29 to August 28, 20114

Espace Miramar : 27 June to 29 August 2014

www.festivalphotomode.com

Pictures by Chico Bialas

“Lignes de Force” at Espace de l’Art Concret in Mouans-Sartoux Castle presents, from December 11 to June 1, 2014 works by artists of Concrete Art, primarily from the collection of the mecene and donor Albers- Honegger as well as films by Mark Lewis.

The exhibited artists use the system of writing, occasionally or permanently, whether text, word, letter, sign or calligraphy, with or without a message, up to the abstraction.
The opening of the exhibition took place on December 19 in the presence of Mr. André Aschieri, Mayor Mouans-Sartoux, the President of the Espace d’Art Concret Jean-François Torres and exhibition curators Claire Spada and Fabienne Fulchéri, and the Delegate to Culture Marie-France Bourdon.

From ancient inscriptions to the most contemporary forms, through the medieval use of phylacteries, artists early have integrated the language to their production so as to certify their conceptual dimension. In the context of avant-garde from 1960-1970, a movement developed on the grounds of an art field clearly defined as “conceptual” art, giving the written, the word and the text a major, even tautological part.
These artists remind us that a sign, whether it brings or not to a writing, is primarily an element of communication between human beings. The use of the sign by the artists therefore questions the meaning of the artwork. Would Art be a language, that is to say, the representation of meaning? What type of communication does the work creates?
This is the definition, the very essence of art that is involved in the identification of the art to language. Can Art be defined as a class of language and therefore enjoyed as what gives meaning and significance to human life, or should we say that the work does not make sense, if not the multiplicity of meaning given freely by his creator and his admirers?
Exhibited artists include: Ian Anüll, Robert Barry, Jean-François Dubreuil, Jacob El Hanani, Helmut Federle, Heinz Gappmayr, Auguste Herbin, Anne-Marie Jugnet et Alain Clairet, Joseph Kosuth, Henri Michaux, Aurelie Nemours, Michel Seuphor, Bernar Venet, Andy Warhol.
With the participation of Christophe Lemaitre and Pierre Beloüin.

Mark Lewis at Espace de l’Art Concret:

Marc Lewis films have neither beginning nor end and often circumscribe ordinary urban spaces, marked by non-completion or abandonment. The filming methods, speed and angle of shooting, the play of light, framing and camera movements give these places an intensity and strangeness dimension which switch the relationship between identity of what we see and the perception we have of it.

Inaugurated in 1990, the Espace de l’Art Concret is born of the encounter between two collectors, Sybil Albers and Gotfried Honegger, and the Mayor of Mouans-Sartoux André Aschieri. Since its inception, this artistic and cultural project is related to the education of the glance. The thematic exhibition program allows a reflection on art and society as well as confrontations between various forms of artistic expression.
The Espace de l’Art Concret develops its activities around three areas: conservation and enhancement of the Abers-Honegger Donation, the program of temporary exhibitions in the Castle Gallery and educational action, in educational workshops and the “Préau des Enfants”.

Ligne de Force exhibition from December 11, 2013 to June 1, 2014

Marc Lewis exhibition from December 11 to March 16, 2014

Opening hours: Wednesday to Sunday from 13h to 18h

Tel: 33 (0) 4 93 75 71 50

www.espacedelartconcret.fr

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Cannes is honoring Persia at the Musée de la Castre through the exhibition “The Mysterious Life of Qajar Masterpieces”, which, lasting until May 2014, is free for two weeks.

Located in the historic part of the city, set in the remains of the monks of Lérins medieval castle on the heights of Le Suquet, the Musée de la Castre welcomed on December 7, 2013, an art amateur public for the opening of the exhibition “The Mysterious Life of Qajar Masterpieces” under the auspices of Mr. Eric Arson, Cannes Culture Delegate, surrounded by local personalities.

The exhibition of a part of the collection is a forerunner of a future hall dedicated to the Decorative Arts of the Qajar era at Musée de la Castre. ” The Mysterious Life” expressed in the title focuses on the backstage of Art, the analysis of ancient materials and their restorations, something the public never sees.
The Qajar objects: miniatures, painted and varnished cabinets, parade weapons for dervishes, objects of everyday life and its little pleasures (health, toiletries, jewelry, coffee, tobacco…) have never been shown since they were packed in crates in the 1920s. They are staged to invite us to understand the uniqueness of the collection.

The collection of Persian origin, dating from the time of the Qajar dynasty (in Iran from 1786 to 1925) has been put forward thanks to the reorganisation of the collections of the Musée de la Castre. This unique Qajar ensemble, consisting of 350 items, was collected by Baron Lycklama in Nijeholt, during his trip to the Orient in 1865. An extensive restoration and expensive was undertaken in 2012 to preserve the historical, aesthetic and unique interest this collection is representing in Europe.
The collection also focuses upon the objects already restored and upon the scientific study that revealed their story through a number of analyzes (infrared views, use of ultraviolet). Analyzes have highlighted their manufacturing processes and wonderful underlying decors, their changes over time and accidents during the Persian-Holland travel of the objects of mecene and generous donor Baron Lycklama.
In preparation for the restoration of this ancient collection mishandled by travel, inadequate storage, and by the time, a campaign has been initiated to find the funds. The call to the Ministry of Culture and Heritage Foundation has helped to start the adventure and initiate the project.

From 3 to 15 December 2013, the Museums Fortnight in Cannes offer free access for 15 days to two museums in Cannes, La Castre and that of Fort Royal on the island of Sainte Marguerite.

Exhibition until May 25, 2014
Open every day but Mondays
December to March: 10h – 13h / 14h – 17h
April-May: 10h – 13h / 14h – 18h

www.cannes.com

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Along with Georges Braque retrospective at the Grand Palais in Paris, the Centre d’Art La Malmaison in Cannes presents an exhibition entitled “Georges Braque, the magic of engraving.”

To celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the disappearance of Georges Braque who was, with Picasso, one of the founders of Cubism, the Winter exhibition of the Centre d’Art focuses on his relationship with literature, presenting his work as an illustrator. From November 30, 2013 to April 27, 2014, more than 250 original etchings or lithograpies created between 1921 and 1963 are to be admired by the public.

“Georges Braque, the magic of engraving” highlights the relationship between the artist and members of the literary avant-garde of the twentieth century : Apollinaire, René Char, Francis Ponge , Jean Paulhan , Antoine Tudal , Pierre Reverdy,  Marcel Jouhandeau , Saint- John Perse. Surrealist texts are enhanced by the expressiveness of Georges Braque’s technique for printmaking.
The exhibition also includes the famous series of engravings around the Theogony of Hesiod commissioned by publisher Ambroise Vollard in 1932 as well as plates and a limited edition of ceramics.

Braque met Matisse, Derain and Vlaminck at an exhibition at the 1907 XXIII Salon des Independants. That year, he also met Picasso for the first time. Accompanied by Guillaume Apollinaire, he went to the Bateau Lavoir, to visit Picasso’s workshop, where he discovered the painting “Les Demoiselles d’ Avignon”. He then returned to the South, La Ciotat, Cassis and again at l’Estaque near Marseilles.
By 1908, Braque worked increasingly closely with Picasso. The period 1908-1912 will be called “the Braque-Picasso roped party“. Then, in Ceret, the two artists work together, initiating the phase of analytic cubism.

Frederic Ballester, Director of the Centre d’Art La Malmaison, said:

“In Georges Braque’s work, with the purity of white paper highlighting the gesture of invented forms in an expressive simplicity, as to accompany the sound of the words given in a reading, the painter, in illustrated books, reveals the interiority and resonance of texts.
The curves are loosened as in the handwriting of the poet who seeks the silence around the weight of words hanging in the sentence. The color, that dominates the expressive forms, symbolizes the elements that constitute the nature of a given transfiguration. The conquered poetic space by the painter lets us breathe azure skies and rays of light that infiltrate our dreams.”

Centre d’Art La Malmaison
47, La Croisette – Cannes
Tel. 33 (0)4 97 06 44 90
November 30, 2013 to April 27, 2014
Open everyday but Mondays – from 10 h to 13h and 14h to 18h.

www.cannes.com

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From November 19 to 24, 2013, the 19th edition of the Cannes Dance Festival hosts an eclectic line-up of sixteen international companies with a world premiere and five French premiere.

When cultural exchanges are growing at a brisk pace, when artistic creation blithely crosses geographical and aesthetic boundaries, when individual practices invent new relationships with symbolic objects and imaginary spaces, all these ingredients compose the exceptional 2013 program, with, in the opening, the famous Shen Wei Dance Arts performing Rite of Spring and Near the Terrace.
Among the scheduled companies and choreographers: Jonah Bokaer, Shen Wei Dance Arts, Victor Hugo Pontes, Marie Chouinard, the Compagnie Xin-Martin Harriage, Michel Kelemis, the Ballet National de Marseille, Système Castafiore, the Compagnie Virgilio Sieni, Rosas & Ictus, Sharon Friedman, Bianca Li, the Cannes Jeune Ballet…

The opening of the Centre International de Danse Rosella Hightower in 1961 endowed Cannes with a rich artistic history that is continuing today as it has become a major player in the international art creation, with an ambitious program, open onto the world, meeting every season a wider audience.
Created in 1984 by the City of Cannes, the Cannes Dance Festival is undoubtedly one of the most important international festivals.  showcases new talent from the international choreographic art and highlights the work of renowned companies. Since 1993, as a biennial, with a programming rich of creations, French or world premieres, the Cannes Dance Festival has a strong focus on contemporary dance, showcasing new talents on the dance stage as well as the work of major international companies.
Since 2011, the artistic direction of the Dance Festival is entrusted to Frédéric Flamand, choreographer and director of the Ballet National de Marseille. On the theme of “New Mythologies” in 2011 and “Traces and Reflections” in 2013, he shapes up a program that covers the multiple creative sensibilities and reflects the stylistic and technical evolution of contemporary international dance scene.

As part of the Cannes Dance Festival, alongside public lectures will be offered around the myth of “Dancing in pain.” The idea that dancers have to suffer in silence for perfection is widely held. The Dance Festival proposes three screening sessions of movies offered in partnership with the Cannes Cinéma at salle Esterel of the Palais des Festivals.
Seminars with dance workshops will be proposed as well as master classes for those who wish to deepen their practice through workshops led by the choreographers and dancers of scheduled companies or to look behind the stage of a creation with Katharina Christl, assistant choreographer of the Ballet de Marseille.

Brigitte Lefèvre, future artistic director of Dance Festival de Cannes: she will succeed Frédéric Flamand and provide programming in 2015 and 2017. Brigitte Lefèvre holds the prestigious position of Director of Dance the Paris Opera since 1995. In nearly 20 years, she has programmed at the Paris Opera significant choreographers of the XXI century (Pina Bausch, Trisha Brown, William Forsythe, John Neumeier, Jiri Kylian, Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker…)

www.festivaldedanse-cannes.com

The “Histoire et de Céramique Biotoises” Museum and the Fernand Léger National Museum, in collaboration with the National Museum of the Twentieth Century of Alpes-Maritimes, present until February 3, 2014 the exhibition “Décor d’une vie ordinaire” by Heidi Wood.

On November 9, 2013 took place the opening of the exhibition “Décor d’une vie ordinaire” (Scenery of an ordinary life), in the presence of Australian artist Heidi Wood, Maurice Fréchuret, director of National Museum of the Twentieth Century of Alpes -Maritimes, Diana Gay, curator at Fernand Léger national Museum and Pierre Palvadeau, Chairman of the Histoire and Céramiques Biotoises Museum.
The exhibition “Scenery of an ordinary life” is designed in two parts. First, at the Museum of Biotoises History and Ceramics, the public can find the first part of the exhibition, entitled “Pavillion”, a mix between collections depicting the daily life in this beautiful Provencal village and Heidi Wood’s works with industrial design aestetics.
One finds artist Heidi Wood’s second part of the exhibition at Musee National Fernand Leger, entitled “Grand Ensemble”. Here, visitors are immediately immersed in the staging of a standard HLM apartment type. The artist enjoys the ambiguous status of her works, including fine art, applied art and popular taste. Is the artwork soluble in the decorative?
Road signs in floral pattern are hung on wall paintings in monochrome swatches evoking clichés of anonymous suburban architecture. White sculptures shaped as social buildings floor plans are diverted: they serve to display porcelain souvenir plates representing an electricity pylon.
Heidi Wood, between irony and activism, pays tribute to the suburbs and invites visitors to look differently at the constructed landscape, its visual codes, but also its contradictions.
Born in 1967, graduated from the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, contemporary artist Heidi Wood presents an overview of the progressive history of twentieth-century art by putting a new look on the state of our current peri-urban environment, often scorned in favor of the city considered more as an heritage element.
In this, by all accounts Heidi Wood embodies the relevant utopia of the twentieth century avant-garde: the world will change with the first lucid look worn on him.
Experimenting with painting in all media, Heidi Wood make dialogue her pictorial landscapes with the modernist aesthetic of normand painter Fernand Léger between 1949 and 1955, who was welcomed by the city of Biot where he practiced ceramics. The theme of the city is a central issue in Fernand Léger’s work.
Indeed, in the 1920s, the artist is passionate by the innovation, architectural as well as social, developed by the “International Style”. Lucid, he still boasts the integration of architecture and painting in the reconquest by the artists of the visual impact generated by advertising.
Reinforced by a road staking of art posters, this Biot course creates a dynamic interaction between two urban realities of the territory of the French Riviera, one at the Léger Museum on the theme of dialogue between painting and cheap architecture and the other at Museum of Biotoises History and Ceramics linked with crafts and everyday objects. Can we inhabit painting? Heidi Wood, as Fernand Léger in his time, proposes us keys to a response.

Bringing together a unique collection of paintings, ceramics and drawings, the collection of the Fernand Léger National Museum allows the public to discover this great artist. These Cubist research with large colorful compositions of the fifties is a contrast of shapes and vibrant in color. Everything evokes the rhythm of the machine, the poetry of objects and the beauty of the modern city .
Located in the historical center of Biot, in a vast and sumptuous Mediterranean park, the Fernand Léger Museum offers visitors numerous exhibitions throughout the year as well as cultural activities (educational workshops, film screenings, lectures, etc.) At the entrance of the museum, visitors can get audio guides in seven languages.

“Décor d’une vie ordinaire – Pavillon -Grand Ensemble” by Heidi Wood
November 9, 2013 / February 3, 2014
Open every day except Tuesday, from 10 a.m. to 06 p.m.

Musée national Fernand Léger
Chemin du Val de Pôme – 06410 Biot
Tel. 33 (0)4 92 91 50 30

www.musees-nationaux-alpesmaritimes.fr

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