Festivals and Events: The agenda of Provence

LAWRENCE WEINER - After crossing the river - VIK MUNIZ - Le musée imaginaire

Avignon
Dates : (Finish)

This winter, the Collection Lambert in Avignon presents a double exhibition devoted to Lawrence Weiner and Vik Muniz. Entitled After Crossing the river, the exhibition devoted to Lawrence Weiner has been designed to be a real project in which the artist, the founding father of conceptual art in the 1960’s, reactivates the texts and works created in France during the long relation he maintained with his dealer, Yvon Lambert, then with the museum which houses his collection.
In Le musée imaginaire, Vik Muniz, contemporary photographer and UNESCO ambassador, unfurls his consummate art of illusion. Works by Van Gogh, Cézanne, Picasso, Warhol and other famous names in the history of art are recreated by Muniz using the most unexpected of materials – yarn, ketchup, chocolate sauce, pigments, magazine cuouts, dried plant matter, trash …). Muniz then photographs his work. The ground floor at the Lambert Collection will display this work, creating a new museum in the museum.

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  • Exhibition of modern and contemporary art from Frieder Burda Museum at Granet Museum

    Aix-en-Provence
    from 26/05/12 to 30/09/12

    This summer, the famous Granet Museum offers a unique exhibition and you will be able to discover a part of the collection of modern and contemporary art from the German Museum Frieder Burda. These 50 big masterpieces have never been exhibited in France. Artists like Gerhard Richter, Sigmar Polke, Georg Baselitz or American painters like Jackson Pollock, Clifford Still, Mark Rothko are set on a large space. It is a collection recognized throughout Europe for its richness and diversity.

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  • Vasarely foundation

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    (Permanent)

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    Quinson
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    Marseille
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