For the delight of both locals from Nice and visitors to our beautiful city, the City of Nice is committed to offering high-quality exhibitions in its museums and galleries.
Here is the program for this summer:
• MUSEUM OF MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ART (MAMAC)
Promenade des Arts – Nice
+ 33(0) 497.13.42.01
www.mamac-nice.org
Open daily except Mondays from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM – Free entry
– Yves KLEIN – James Lee BYARS – Anish KAPOOR
June 30 – December 16, 2012
Opening on Friday, June 29, 2012 at 7:00 PM
This exhibition will bring together three emblematic and enigmatic figures of contemporary art. Three artists from different generations and backgrounds who share an attraction to the alliance of the ephemeral, the imaginary, and the spiritual, of fullness and emptiness. In a quest for total art, they offer through installations or performances, sensitive and poetic experiences of the world where monochromy plays a crucial role. The MAMAC will seek to reveal the connections that intimately link these three monuments of art through specific installations immersing the viewer in a colorful bath: IKB for Yves Klein, white for James Lee Byars, and red for Anish Kapoor.
– Louis CANE
April 21 – September 9, 2012
Opening on Friday, April 20, 2012 at 7:00 PM
This exhibition is dedicated to Louis Cane, who was born in 1943 in Beaulieu-sur-Mer where he still has a studio. He started his studies at the national school of decorative arts in Nice before moving to Paris and participating in the Supports/Surfaces movement.
In the late 1970s, Louis Cane began to revisit masterpieces of painting, reintroducing this medium into his practice, along with its archetypal subjects and emblematic figures (El Greco, Velázquez, Delacroix, Monet, Van Gogh, Manet, Picasso, Bacon, De Kooning, etc.). Louis Cane presents around twenty mostly previously unseen paintings specially made for the MAMAC exhibition.
• MATISSE MUSEUM
164, Avenue des Arènes de Cimiez – Nice
+ 33 (0)4 93 81 08 08
Open every day from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM except Tuesdays and certain holidays – Free entry
– HENRI MATISSE: THE CUT-OUT SKY
Genesis of the art of cut gouache paper, collection from the Matisse Museum
June 23 – September 23, 2012
Opening on Friday, June 22, 2012 at 7:00 PM
From prestigious loans from international museums and private collections gathered around the museum’s collection, this exhibition explores the connection the artist establishes between drawing, painting, and sculpture, culminating in the cutouts of colored paper. This exhibition brings together works that allow us to follow the artist’s journey from his first creations, such as Still Life with Books, 1890, to the large compositions in cut gouache papers, such as Flowers and Fruits, 1952-1953, preserved at the museum.
This exhibition is held on the occasion of the publication of the art book “Henri Matisse, The Cut-Out Sky,” by Jacabook editions of Milan and Citadelles & Mazenot of Paris, which honors the future donation by the Matisse family of a set of elements in gouache cut-papers not used in his works by Henri Matisse, and the donation of the ceramic “The Pool” by Mr. and Mrs. Claude Duthuit.
• THEATER OF PHOTOGRAPHY AND IMAGE
27, Boulevard Dubouchage – Nice
+ 33 (0)4 97 13 42 20
www.tpi-nice.org
Open daily from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM except Mondays and certain holidays – Free entry
– STEPHANE COUTURIER
June 29 – October 7, 2012
Opening on Thursday, June 28, 2012 at 7:00 PM
Born in 1957 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Stéphane Couturier lives and works in Paris. His photographic work has garnered excellent international recognition since the early 1990s. Originally specializing in architectural photography, he gradually moved towards plastic photography. Stéphane Couturier’s work consists mainly of large formats taken with a large or medium format camera, in which the viewer’s eye gets lost, captivated by details. The great strength of Stéphane Couturier’s images comes from this visual play.
For this first exhibition in Nice, the Theater of Photography and Image commissioned him to create a work on the site of the Marble Palace. Around twenty major pieces produced in large cities will be presented, andthis new work, in the process of completion, will be presented by the artist in a preview during the inauguration.
• MARINE GALLERY
59, Quai des Etats-Unis – Nice
+ 33 (0)4 93 91 92 91
Open daily from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM except Mondays and certain holidays – Free entry
– 2012 VILLA ARSON GRADUATES
June 28 – October 7, 2012
Opening on June 27, 2012 at 7:00 PM
Annual exhibition of graduates from the National School of Art at Villa Arson.
On this occasion, the Young Contemporary Creation Award, supported by the Bernar Venet Foundation, allows for distinguishing two winners among the graduates of Villa Arson.
The exhibition is held in two parts, at the Marine Gallery and at Villa Arson.
• PALAIS LASCARIS
15, Rue Droite (Old Nice) – Nice
04 93 62 72 40
Open from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM, except Tuesdays and certain holidays – Free entry
– THE LIVING KEYBOARD
Exhibition of ancient keyboard instruments (17th – 20th century) >>> March 31 – October 29, 2012
Opening on Friday, March 30 at 7:00 PM
This exhibition reveals to the public a collection of mostly unpublished and exceptional keyboard instruments from the Gaveau-Erard-Pleyel collection deposited at Palais Lascaris by the AXA Group, from the Ad Libitum Fund, as well as from several loans and donations, particularly the Pleyel piano from the Cercle Masséna, Nice (1863), on which concerts were performed during the winter vacation period of the Second Empire. These instruments, made by prestigious makers, are all in playing condition, allowing for a series of concerts to illustrate their close connections with music as it was performed in the time of Mozart, Schubert, or Fauré.
• NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM
60, Boulevard Risso – Nice
04 97 13 46 80
www.mhnnice.org
Open daily from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM except Mondays – Free entry
– OVER HILLS AND VALLEYS “BIODIVERSITY OF THE ALPES-MARITIMES”
July 7 – December 31, 2012
Opening on Friday, July 6, 2012 at 7:00 PM
The tour is presented as a naturalist walk through the hinterland and the coast to discover the “treasures” of the biodiversity of this world-renowned territory for its mixed maritime and alpine landscapes.
With its remarkable natural history, diverse and original species, this territory, a true biodiversity hotspot, is rich but threatened in many ways. This exhibition shows the role and missions of an institution like the Natural History Museum and highlights the importance and stakes of conserving this unique natural heritage that makes the department one of the richest in France.
• NICE ARCHAEOLOGY MUSEUM CIMIEZ SITE – TERRA AMATA SITE
Prehistoric site of TERRA AMATA
25, Boulevard Carnot – NICE
04 93 55 59 93
Open daily from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM except Mondays – Free entry
Gallo-Roman site of CIMIEZ
160, Avenue des Arènes – NICE
04 93 81 59 57
Open daily from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM except Tuesdays – Free entry
– THE ETRUSCANS, THE GREEKS, THE PHOENICIANS AND THE SEA
May 12 – September 30, 2012
Opening on Friday, May 11, 2012 at 7:00 PM
The Nice Archaeology Museum – Cimiez site hosts a major exhibition “Etruscans, the Greeks, the Phoenicians and the Sea.” It is an opportunity for the City of Nice to invite locals to discover ancient navigation during the time of the Phoenicians, Greeks, and Etruscans. Originating from an international scientific collaboration between the Nice Institute of Studies, the Institute of Applied Studies of Mediterranean Civilizations and Spaces, and the Gruppo Archeologico del Territorio Cerite, this exhibition, dedicated to the three great ancient thalassocracies, demonstrates the central position of the city of Nice within the Mediterranean space. It will allow the public to discover numerous objects, archaeological reconstructions (anchors, amphorae, etc.), didactic models of ships, as well as a full-scale reproduction of a shipyard.
