Online exhibition – Artsy
An exhibition as part of Manifesta 13 – Les Parallèles du Sud
As part of Manifesta 13 – Les Parallèles du Sud, four artists, initially chosen by a pilot team composed of Bertrand Baraudou (founder of the Espace A Vendre gallery), Eric Mangion (director of the Villa Arson Art Center and art critic), Christine Parasote (production manager and editor), Cédric Teisseire (artist and founder of La Station), in turn chose four other artists, who chose four more to bring together a total of twelve artists.
Free admission from Wednesday to Saturday from 2pm to 7pm.
La Station – Le 109 (Ville de Nice)
The 6th edition of Un Dimanche à la Galerie, which will take place on September 13, is particularly important this year. This common opening day for art galleries throughout France, initiated and coordinated by the Comité Professionnel des Galeries d’art, is intended to reflect the dynamism and diversity of art gallery programming in France, and thus carry a resolutely optimistic message for the future, alongside the artists they represent. The mobilization of 166 art galleries bears witness to this.
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Group exhibition
Le 109 – Nice
Exhibition until August 29, 2020
Exhibition from July 11 to October 11, 2020
Exhibition curator: Eva Vautier
For the Domaine Départemental de Chamarande, Ben collects more than 400 works, mostly from his personal collection, but also from private collections.
The exhibition “Être libre” reveals the multiple facets of an iconoclastic and provocative artist who has been challenging single thought for more than 50 years. It allows visitors to discover his work in all its complexity and contradictions, its joyful breadth and abundance, which crosses all fields of art and life.
A historical part presents a selection of significant works from the years 1958 to 1978.
At the end of the 1950s, Ben signs everything, thus appropriating, through his images and actions, the world as a whole. To illustrate these years, documents from the period are presented: posters, photographic and video archives, as well as a selection of his performances entitled “Gestures”.
He is one of the first artists to put art directly in the street, in Europe from 1959, by practicing his “Street Actions”. These are daily gestures, such as waiting at a bus stop, swimming across the port of Nice with his hat and clothes on, or eating pasta in the middle of the street sitting at a table. With his many actions, Ben became in the 1960s an essential figure of the Fluxus movement in Europe.
A second part of the exhibition opens the doors to Ben’s universe, which invests the different rooms of the castle with more up-to-date installations and new works, through a succession of characteristic themes: small ideas, portraits, mirrors, photography, ego and play.
He pursues his introspection in a journey through which the visitor is invited in turn to question his condition, his time, his society. Each new word, each new gesture is part of a quest for meaning and truth.
Exhibition open to the castle and the orangery – free access :
Wednesday-Thursday-Friday – June-September, 14h-19h – October, 14h-17h
Saturday-Sunday – June-September, 1pm-7pm – October, 1pm-5pm
Libération, Ben lève le masque, August 20, 2020
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