The National XX Century Museums of the Alpes-Maritimes present an exhibition dedicated to the artistic treatment of the object until next October 2 at the Eco’Parc of Mougins
The concept is based on the following observation: post-World War II Western society experienced unprecedented economic growth. Industrial production of objects was significantly increased as a result.
Artists, sensitive to the advent of this consumer society, did not fail to respond to what proved to be a true sociological shift, whose effects are particularly visible on the Côte d’Azur.
By now choosing to directly incorporate objects into their works, they respond in a contrasting manner to this state of affairs while enriching the artistic landscape with new and radical proposals. The object, manufactured, standardized, bearing traces of its use, is thus diverted, modified, accumulated, assembled, multiplied, compressed, destroyed…
From Arman to Erik Dietman, from Raymond Hains to Ben, including Tatiana Trouvé, Philippe Mayaux, or Berdaguer and Péjus, Christian Vialard, Florian Pugnaire, and David Raffini, several generations of artists who have worked or still work on the Côte d’Azur, have been able to fruitfully exploit the new place of the object through unprecedented artistic practices.
Richard Galy, Mayor of Mougins:
« Mougins, endowed with a long cultural and artistic tradition, had to associate with the great summer exhibition: Contemporary Art and the Côte d’Azur, a territory for experimentation 1951-2011.
The Eco’Parc thus hosts some 130 works by renowned Azurian artists on the theme of the object. The remarkable site of the Eco’Parc, with its 5,000 m2 of building and its 2.5 hectares of wooded areas, is indeed perfectly suited to host such an event.
This exhibition targets everyone, both connoisseurs and novices, but also families, and particularly children.
