The Lascaris Palace, for 6 months until April 1, 2019, will be the setting for an exhibition on artists from Nice in the 1960s to 1980s.
The old town, now sanitized, renovated, and embellished, became, as the director of the Lascaris Palace, Madame Sylvie Lecat emphasizes, a privileged place, was very different during this twenty-year period.
In the ’60s and ’80s, there was a flourishing artistic life where painters, sculptors, musicians, poets, writers, and photographers gathered in this triangle of the old town of Nice, bordered by Boulevard Jean Jaurรจs, Place Garibaldi, and Quai des Etats-Unis.
These artists set up their workshops and galleries there. The cafรฉs and restaurants had a little touch of Saint Germain des Prรฉs. People would discuss and debate there. This exhibition, aptly titled Bouillons de culture, will allow the older generation to revive their memories and the younger generation to see the old town and its vibrant artistic activity from a different perspective.
Through photos, paintings, books, and press clippings, we rediscover these artists, most of whom have gone on to continue their work in other realms. In a way, it is a homage paid to them. Of course, the Nice school is represented. The gallery owners were the catalysts for their fame.
Neither names nor places will be mentioned, as that would take away part of the interest of this exhibition. The Lascaris Palace, accustomed to baroque and early music, offers us with this exhibition a great wave of freshness, a dive into modern art whose facets are multiple and whose artists have eclectic talents, not to call them varied, a term too restrictive to qualify them.
Bouillons de culture is an original event whose visit will be both historical and artistic.
Thierry Jan
