Robert Doisneau
du 18/06/09 au 11/11/09 (Finish)
Avignon
55 photos, 40 artists, including Utrillo, Picasso, Braque, Foujita, Despiau, Laurens, Arp, Leger, Dubuffet, Chaissac, Buffet, Lhote, Duchamp ... .
The exhibition of Angladom museum presents photographs still little known made by Robert Doisneau during reporting in workshops of artists of his time.
PICASSO, DUBUFFET, CÉSAR...MUSÉE CANTINI, LA COLLECTION
from 02/04/10 to 31/12/10
Marseille
From April 2nd, 2010, the Cantini museum reopens its doors to the public and will present a new vision of its collection, one of the most important in France regarding the XXth century.
The exhibition is focused on the main artistic movements of the century: fauvism, cubism, post-cubism, surealism...
A large part is dedicated to great and famous painters such as Picasso, Giacometti, Bacon, Dubuffet, Balthus and de Staël.
Les Rencontres d'Arles: The International Photography Festival
from 03/07/10 to 19/09/10
Arles
The International Photography Festival known as "Les Rencontres d'Arles" was created in 1968. More than forty years later this festival is definitively, the most important event around photography in the whole world.
Usually organized around more than 50 events installed in various exceptional patrimonial places of Arles, Les Rencontres d’Arles (in English the Meetings of Arles) , each summer in July, intend to contribute to transmit the world photographic inheritance and also want to be the crucible of contemporary creation by the discovery of young talented photographers.
Discovery of the Marseille musical Heritage.
from 17/04/10 to 02/10/10
Entrez une ville
From April, 17th, Guided Tours of the Marseille Musical Heritage are organized by the guide Corinne Mihorat. The Guided Tours endures 2 hours, combining, History, Heritage, discovery of the places and artists of the Marseille Musical Heritage.
From the "Vieux port" to the " Canebière", you will discover the Opera, the Alcazar, l'Odéon.
Artists such as Vincent Scotto, Alibert, Sarvil or Fernandel will come back to life for a split second...
Granet Museum
(Permanent)
Aix-en-Provence
Recognized as one of the richest museums of province, the Granet museum makes new skin. Beside great masters Rembrandt, Rubens, Jordaens, The Dwarf, Géricault, David, Ingres but also Granet and Cézanne, he proposes one of the most important donations of these last years, with recent painters.
Website in French
New!!
from 05/06/10 to 03/10/10
Aix-en-Provence
Pierre Alechinsky is one of the big names of the contemporary art. In the perspective of Marseille Provence 2013, European Capital of the Culture, the Granet museum in Aix-en-Provence pays tribute to this artist, major figur of the current art, the lover of South during an exhibitionof international scale. This retrospective, " Alechinsky, the workshops of Noon(South) ", allows to discover, throughout the summer, on more than 500 m2 of exhibition distributed in eight rooms, 170 major works - paint, drawings, engravings, ceramic and books.
Cool Globes
from 08/06/10 to 08/10/10
Entrez une ville
After Copenhagen, Marseille will be the 2nd european city of to propose one
Exhibition of unpublished globes realized by local artists. Hundred of globes will be offered to the curiosity and on second thought of the public in the
Arteries, places and gardens of the city.
Alpilles-Provence'art, international Festival of contemporary : AP'ART
du 08/07/10 au 13/07/10 (Finish)
Entrez une ville
Alpilles-Provence'art, international Festival of contemporary art from 8 till 13 July 2010 to Saint-Rémy of Provence.
Six days of festival in free access, to see, feel, discuss, better understand(include) the contemporary art:
- An international festival for all the public
- A raid of the plastic arts in the territory of Alpilles
- "Art-ventures", exhibitions(exposures) and unusual encounters with the artists
- A springboard in the emergent creation
- With fitted out time slots, till night
Vasarely foundation
(Permanent)
Aix-en-Provence
It is in Aix-en-Provence where Cézanne invented the modern painting and it is the place chosen by Victor Vasarely to settle his foundation in 1976. Vasarely is a Hungarian artist emigrated in Paris in 1930 which launched a recognized movement all over the world, the op art. His foundation is a set of black and white cubes put on a hill, in front of saint-Victoire. Inside, the work of the artist. His monumental and multicolored frescoes dominate you and live with your movements. It is the kinetic art, the optical illusions from colored geometrical forms.
