Published on 16 July 2024
by Musée Gassendi in Non classé
Fireflies. The Art of Childhood.Reading and playing with Les Trois Ourses, from the Centre national des arts plastiques (Cnap) collection Exhibition at Musée Gassendi July 5, 2024 to February 25, 2025 Artists: Ianna Andréadis, Marion Bataille, Mauro Bellei, Remy Charlip, Paul Cox, Louise-Marie Cumont, Sophie Curtil, Milos Cvach, Sonia Delaunay, Dobroslav Foll, Keith Godard, Tana Hoban, Coline Irwin, Elisabeth Ivanovsky, Ronald King, Katsumi Komagata, Vladimir Lebedev, El Lissitzky, Julien Magnani, Enzo Mari, Fanette Mellier, Bruno Munari, Kazumasa Nagai, Nathalie Parain, Alexandre Rodtchenko, Kurt Schwitters, Kate Steinitz, Théo Van Doesburg, Luigi Veronesi, etc. Curation: Sandra Cattini, Musée Gassendi director and head curator; and Fabienne…
Published on 10 July 2023
by Musée Gassendi in Non classé
EXHIBITION FROM JULY 14 TO DECEMBER 24, 2023 opening on July 13, 2023 at 6 p.m. in the presence of the artist. In 1994, the British artist Andy Goldsworthy was invited for the first time to the Gassendi Museum for an exhibition in tribute to life in all its diversity. Since then, the sculptor has definitely entered the history of the landscapes of Haute-Provence by developing in Digne a series of permanent works in abandoned villages: Refuge d'Art. Always working on different scales, he created sculptures simultaneously at Refuge d'Art, sometimes lasting a few seconds. "Mortality and instability are…
Published on 20 April 2023
by Musée Gassendi in Non classé
New Picasso room opening from May 14, 2023 In 2022, in order to pay tribute to Vincent Boeuf and his parents (his father was from Digne-les Bains), his universal legatee, Jack Chanon, chose the Gassendi Museum to house 7 works by Pablo Picasso (1881, Malaga-1973 , Mougins). This donation makes it possible to endow the museum with a set of works by the major artist of the 20th century, and to celebrate the 50th anniversary of his death. The diversity of techniques in this corpus, drawing, engraving, ceramics, books, offers an overview of the prolific research undertaken by the artist…
Published on 28 June 2021
by Musée Gassendi in Non classé
An exhibition where you can converse with funny birds ... Season 1 from September 19, 2020 (see fall schedule below). Season 2 from May 19, 2021 Presentation of the exhibition Rather than trying to answer the question asked by Bashung (What's in a Bird?), It might be better to ask ourselves from what the birds are named ... despite the silence to which they are kept in the closed doors of the Gassendi Museum's collections, What do they tell us about the territory on which they fluttered before they were being stuffed? Why show them in the spotlight and devote…
Published on 28 May 2019
by Musée Gassendi in Non classé
Richard Nonas COL - Inaugurations July 12th & 13th, 2019 Two new art works by the American artist Richard Nonas will enrich the Museum Gassendi’s collection. Trained as an anthropologist, he thus synthesizes the complexity of our relations to places in site-specific sculptures, that aim at “reopening and reclosing the part of the world in which they are placed”. Friday, July 12th - 6:00pm Inauguration of the installation, The col of the half-opened door, at musée Gassendi. [followed at 7:00pm by the opening of the exhibition, Double exploration. Jean-Jacques Rullier - Alexandra David-Neel, at CAIRN art center] Saturday, July 13th Inauguration of the artwork,…
