- Musée d'art moderne et d'art contemporain
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Musée d'art moderne et d'art contemporain Established 21 June 1990 Location Promenade des arts
06000 Nice, FranceType Art museum Visitor figures 125,000 per year Website www.mamac-nice.org/ The Musée d'art moderne et d'art contemporain, also known as MAMAC, is a museum dedicated to modern art and contemporary art, opened on 21 June 1990, in Nice.
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Location
The museum is located near the Place Garibaldi. It was designed by architects Yves Bayard and Henri Vidal, and is shaped like a tetrapod arch straddling the course of Paillon. The monumentality of the project developed on the cover of Paillon allow to connect through a terrace, called the Promenade des Arts, the museum to the theater. With its square plan, the architecture of the building is inspired by the neo-classicism rules. The available area is approximately 3,800 m2 distributed over nine showrooms. The facades are covered with smooth white Carrara marble. The entrance and the shop are located at the level of the esplanade which overlooks the Place Yves Klein. The gallery spaces are devoted to temporary exhibitions on the first floor, and to the permanent collections on the second and third floors. The museum is free and opens daily from 10.00 am to 6:00 pm, except Mondays and some holidays.[1]
Collections
The collections present an overview of the artistic creation avant-garde, from the late 1950s to today, which belong around different movements:[2][3]
- The European New Realists with Arman, Yves Klein and Martial Raysse, alongside César Baldaccini, Christo, Niki de Saint Phalle, Mimmo Rotella, François Dufrêne, Jean Tinguely, Gérard Deschamps, Daniel Spoerri, Raymond Hains, Jacques Villeglé; the Americans Pop art is represented by a collection of works by Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Indiana, Andy Warhol, James Rosenquist, Claes Oldenburg, Tom Wesselmann, and neo-Dadaist assemblages of Rauschenberg.
- The School of Nice: Sacha Sosno, Robert Malavaal and Ben Vautier is close to several representative works of Fluxus.
- The Arte Povera includes artists such as Pier Paolo Calzolari, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Enrica Borghi and Jan Fabre.
- Supports / Surfaces are represented through Noel Dolla, Marcel Alocco, André-Pierre Arnal, Louis Cane, Daniel Dezeuze, Vincent Bouliès, Marcel Devade, Christian Jaccard, and Claude Pagès and Bernard Viallat.
- The American minimalism and color field is shown with Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski, Ellsworth Kelly, Larry Poons and Frank Stella.
Donations and deposits
Since the opening, Klein has a room which displays about twenty of his works, several of them belonging to the permanent collection of the museum.
In October 2001, Niki de Saint Phalle bequeathed a large part of her collection to the city of Nice for the museum. Donation consists of 170 works including 63 paintings and sculptures, 18 prints, 40 lithographs, serigraphs and 54 many original documents.[4]
In 2004, artist Albert Chubac gave a hundred works to the museum.[5]
Bibliography
- Musée d'art moderne et d'art contemporain, Éditions des Arts graphiques, Nice, 1997 (ISBN 2901412785)
References
- ^ "Infos / Tourisme Nice >> Culture Nice >> Musée d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain" (in French). cote.azur.fr. http://www.cote.azur.fr/tourisme-musee-d-art-moderne-et-d-art-contemporain-nice-1966.htm. Retrieved 26 June 2011.
- ^ "Musée d'Art moderne et d'Art contemporain de Nice" (in French). evene.fr. http://www.evene.fr/culture/lieux/musee-d-art-moderne-et-d-art-contemporain-de-nice-58.php. Retrieved 26 June 2011.
- ^ "Accueil / Culture / Musées et expositions / M.A.M.A.C" (in French). Nice Côte d'Azur. http://www.nice.fr/Culture/Musees-et-expositions/M.A.M.A.C. Retrieved 26 June 2011.
- ^ (in French)Nice Matin (Nice: Nice-Matin Group). 12 October 2001.
- ^ (in French)Nice Matin (Nice: Nice-Matin Group). 28 January 2004.
External links
Categories:- Art museums and galleries in France
- Museums in Nice
- Museums established in 1990
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