This summer, the MAMAC offers a unique journey through the years. 200 works dating from 1960 to the present, enough to discover Art and its evolution. With two new “POP” rooms and a new scenography, the museum takes us on a colorful journey.
The “POP” rooms 4 and 8 provoke a visual explosion. Under the sign of the 1960s and Pop Art, the colors are bright and the productions each more quirky than the last. To honor this marginal and ironic artistic movement, the MAMAC features works by Andy Warhol, Niki De Saint Phalle, Martial Raysse, and Alain Jacquet. In aiming to create a true artistic revolution, Pop Art appears as a critique of consumer society. Visitors will then have the opportunity to walk past a shirt with a target, shoe paintings, or even fake advertisements. These are indirect ways to display, at the time, a new way of thinking.
Ever more daring rooms
An immense blue rectangle… That’s what the visitor can see if they look at the floor of room 6! Like Yves Klein’s The Monochrome Adventure, this room is covered with entirely blue works. There are also works by Ben, an artist cherished by the city of Nice. The one that grabs attention is Ben’s Museum, a small room lit by red neon lights and covered with messages, drawings, paintings… A unique and evolving installation, the artist reserving the right to modify or complete it at any time. The visit ends with Albert Chubac, a figure of abstract art. He had found wooden sticks and color pigments from shopkeepers in Old Nice. The exhibition is therefore composed solely of painted and assembled wooden pieces.
With these changes in the collections for summer 2020, the museum offers a new surprising but pleasing approach.
I did not like nothingness, and that’s how I became acquainted with the void, the deep void, the blue depth! Yves Klein
