Christine Albanel will first visit Saint Paul de Vence where she will inaugurate the “Tigre” exhibition by Jacques Monory at the Marguerite and Aimé Maeght Foundation. She will participate in the exhibition’s press conference, alongside the artist, Adrien Maeght, president of the Foundation, and Michel Enrici, its director.
In the early afternoon, the Minister will visit the Fernand Léger National Museum in Biot. Reopened on June 20, 2008, after four years of closure, this visit will be an opportunity for the Minister to explore the new reception areas and the new layout providing access to the collections.
At 4:35 PM, the Minister will go to Nice to the Abattoirs along with Christian Estrosi, Deputy-Mayor of Nice, Sophie Duez, Municipal Councilor and president of the think tank on the cultural project of the former slaughterhouses, and Muriel Marland-Militello, Deputy Mayor delegated to culture. This project, both cultural and urban, will be a space dedicated to contemporary creation and artistic experiments.
Christine Albanel will conclude her visit at 5:30 PM, at the Villa Arson, a school and national center of contemporary art in Nice. She will visit the renovation site of the 3,500m2 terrace which, thanks to the economic stimulus plan, will be made watertight and converted into the hanging garden originally envisioned by its architect Michel Marot.
It is also at the Villa Arson where the Minister will present the insignia of officer in the Order of Arts and Letters to Noël Dolla, a painter and professor at the École Nationale Supérieure d’Art in Nice, whose work is currently exhibited at the MAC VAL (Museum of Contemporary Art of Val-de-Marne).
