A conference by Agnès Ghenassia,

If the procedures of deformation and of disfigurement are always numerous and varied. Several artists underline the character of the “social mask” of the face, victim of a standardisation of the aesthetic models. Finally, others use the portrait to denounce the everyone for oneself. A society whose individuals have stopped communicating with each other.

Tuesday 7th of avril 2020 at 10:30 am

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In compliance with health measures (distancing, wearing a mask), reception will be limited to 70 people with compulsory registration by email to joachim.rothacker@hotmail.fr
If the number of registrants is too large, Agnès Ghenassia will offer this conference a second time at a later date.

Fondation Vasarely
Jas de Bouffan
1 avenue Marcel Pagnol
13090 Aix-en-Provence

A conference by Agnès Ghenassia

The portrait, which in the nineteenth century was still the result of private commissions, has become among modern artists the support of many formal researches. Much more than a simple imitation of the model, it bears witness to many questions linked to the “presence” of an identity, even when screened by distortion.
Whether it is the fruit of a face to face with the living model or composed from a photograph, what does the “flesh” of the painting bring to the face?
Today, portraiture is making a massive return to contemporary art, sometimes questioning the “I” as a social, moving construction, and moving away from the true and the authentic, but still showing interest in individual.

Tuesday, March the 3rd 2020 at 10:30 am

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Fondation Vasarely
Jas de Bouffan
1 avenue Marcel Pagnol
13090 Aix-en-Provence

A conference by Agnès Ghenassia

A particularly fruitful theme that will take us under the sign of Eros, through centuries of painting and sculpture.

Friday the 14th of February 2020 at 6:00 pm

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Fondation Vasarely
Jas de Bouffan
1 avenue Marcel Pagnol
13090 Aix-en-Provence

A conference by Agnès Ghenassia

In sculpture, many artists renew the tradition of the old Cabinets de Curiosités by imagining all kinds of hybridizations, others divert the traditional use of taxidermy to express their empathy towards the animal world.
Finally, since the 1970s, the use of live animals, sometimes questionable, has been the tireless desire to reduce the gap between art and life.

Tuesday 11th of February 2020 at 10:30am

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Fondation Vasarely
Jas de Bouffan
1 avenue Marcel Pagnol
13090 Aix-en-Provence

A conference by Agnès Ghenassia

Associate Professor of Fine Arts and Lecturer of Modern and Contemporary Art

The animal is present in many artistic approaches, but how? simple motif, artist’s alter-ego, metaphor for a people or all of humanity, memories of the tales of our childhood, the embodiment of a nostalgia for the “savage” … Finally, are there any Are there works that truly serve the animal cause?

Tuesday December 14th 2019 at 10h30am

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Fondation Vasarely
Jas de Bouffan
1 avenue Marcel Pagnol
13090 Aix-en-Provence