The program “Nice 2015. Promenade(S) des Anglais” consists of 14 exhibitions presented in 13 exhibition venues in Nice: 10 municipal museums and galleries and 3 national institutions.
This program, its conception, and its realization benefited from the support of the “Promenade des Anglais” Mission, aided by the UNESCO World Heritage listing, presided over by Jean-Jacques Aillagon, who serves as the general curator.
The program “Nice 2015. Promenade(S) des Anglais” thus brings together exhibitions spanning the following fields: natural history (Galerie des Ponchettes), history (Museum of Archaeology of Cimiez, Palais Lascaris, National Sports Museum), architecture and urbanism (Masséna Museum), visual arts (Fine Arts Museum, Naive Art Museum, Matisse Museum, MAMAC, Photography and Image Theater, National Museum Marc Chagall, Villa Arson, Galerie de la Marine).
These exhibitions will gather more than 1,500 paintings, sculptures, photographs, engravings, and archival documents.
Here is the program:
GALERIE DES PONCHETTES (an exhibition by the Natural History Museum)
From the Shore to the Promenade. A Natural History
MUSEUM OF ARCHAEOLOGY OF CIMIEZ From East to West, 20 centuries of promenade on the Nice territory
MUSEUM OF MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ART (MAMAC) The Prom’ as Workshop
INTERNATIONAL ANATOLE JAKOVSKY MUSEUM OF NAIVE ART The Promenade, Quite Simply.
FINE ARTS MUSEUM Raoul Dufy, the Promenade as Motif
MASSÉNA MUSEUM The Promenade or the Invention of a City
MATISSE MUSEUM Henri Matisse, Interior Strolls
NATIONAL MUSEUM MARC CHAGALL Nice, Sun, Flowers. Marc Chagall and the Bay of Angels
PALAIS LASCARIS The Art Festivals, Hôtel Rhul Promenade des Anglais, 1924-1926
THEATER OF PHOTOGRAPHY AND IMAGE Martin Parr Life’s a Beach. An Englishman in Nice
VILLA ARSON Portraits of the Promenade des Anglais. Cinematic Creation
L’ECLAT Associated Exhibitions:
GALERIE DE LA MARINE Graduates of the Villa Arson on the Promenade
MUSEUM OF MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ART (MAMAC) Keith Sonnier: Light Works
NATIONAL SPORTS MUSEUM In Sport Mode
The announcement of these exhibitions was also the occasion to announce the creation of a dedicated website, not only to the history of the Promenade but also to the memories Niçois and our visitors have of the Promenade des Anglais: www.missionpromenade.fr
On it, all information about the studies, conferences, and exhibitions it organizes can be found, as well as a panorama, in images, of the history of the Promenade and the “Winter City” of Nice.
Your memories (photos, films, historical or private documents …) are welcome to enrich the content by uploading them directly to the site or visiting the office of the Mission from Monday to Friday between 9 am and 5 pm.
For Christian Estrosi: “Gaining the support of the Niçois and all the people who have been close to the Promenade des Anglais is important. All elements are in your possession, copies of photos, family films, various souvenirs (artworks, objects, postcards…) will further enhance our candidacy file, proving the universality of the Promenade, a universality not only geographical but also human and social. There are only a few places in the world where everyone can share, for free, so much beauty, and the Promenade is one of those places.”
For Jean-Jacques Aillagon: “With these 14 summer 2015 exhibitions, the Niçois and the many visitors to Nice can better know the history of the emergence, alongside the old town, of a new city, linked to the affirmation of tourism, first winter and then summer, whose urban planning and architecture deserve to be known, studied, and better protected. With this call to share your own memories, those of your family, those of your acquaintances, we can together write a history of Nice in a more sensitive way, more rooted in the existence of those who live and have lived there, and I hope we will find treasures.”
