Group exhibition with PHILIPPE JUSFORGUES, GERALD PANIGHI, GREGORY FORSTNER AND JACQUES FLECHEMULLER Opening on Saturday 13 June at 6 pm Exhibition from 16…
Group exhibition with PHILIPPE JUSFORGUES, GERALD PANIGHI, GREGORY FORSTNER AND JACQUES FLECHEMULLER Opening on Saturday 13 June at 6 pm Exhibition from 16 June to 1 August 2015. Download the press kit At the origin of this exhibition is the circular encounter of four artists who recognised one another across the Atlantic. (Gregory Forstner and Jacques Flechemuller, who share their lives between France and America, Gérald Panighi and Philippe Jusforgues, attached to the Azure coast.) Drawn to the singular universes that their painting or drawing shapes, they come together around a raw and poetic, slightly off-kilter figuration of bodies, moments and climates: so many droll enigmas posed to the reality of our world. Parallel exhibition: “Sélection de Gestes et d’Appropriations” by Ben Vautier In echo of the project “NICE 2015 Promenade des anglais” organised by the City of Nice An exhibition of a selection of Gestes et d’Appropriations by Ben Vautier, from 1958 to 1969, accompanied by the film Actions de rues “Not to do as the others do: eat in the middle of the street, polish other people’s shoes, bang my head against a wall, etc. There can be simple gestures, and there can be spectacular gestures. My first gestures date from 1958. I had theorised them within the framework of the Appropriations: since everything was art, I appropriated the slap, the kick up the backside, etc.” Ben
