Dear Members, Dear Friends
This last quarter will be fascinating with the various conferences that will be offered to you. Please note that the next one will take place on WEDNESDAY 6 OCTOBER
(Not on a Tuesday as usual) and will reveal to us the “Misunderstandings, controversies and scandals of modern and contemporary art”.
Indeed, the history of art is strewn with controversies and scandals because the freedom of expression of artists often comes up against the incomprehension and the anger of the public.
If some of these misunderstandings and rejections make people smile a few decades later, others continue today to fuel debates and serve as arguments for detractors of contemporary art, especially in an economic context where scandal sells.
I also wanted to inform you that within the framework of the week of the book, next Thursday October 7 at 6:00 pm, a meeting-debate is organized with Pierre Vasarely around his book “Vasarely, A Saga in the century”, at the Temple of the Protestant Church, 4, rue Villars in Aix-en-Provence.
Looking forward to welcoming you, already remember the dates of the next conferences, Tuesday November 16 which will be followed by a dance performance in the evening at the Vasarely Foundation and Thursday December 9 which will end the year.
I remind you that the sanitary pass and the wearing of a mask are compulsory.
Sylvie Piquemal
President
Misunderstandings, controversies and scandals of modern and contemporary art
A conference by Agnès Ghenassia,
The history of art is strewn with controversies and scandals because the freedom of expression of artists often comes up against the incomprehension and the anger of the public.
If some of these misunderstandings and rejections make people smile a few decades later, others continue today to fuel debates and serve as arguments for detractors of contemporary art, especially in an economic context where scandal sells.
Conference of Wednesday the 5th of October 2021 at 10:30 am
ENTRY FEE MEMBERS : 5€
NON MEMBERS : 7€
The conference will be held at 6MIC (Contemporary Music Hall of the Pays d’Aix), located at the entrance to the new Constance district in Aix-en-Provence, a few hundred meters from the Vasarely Foundation, at the chemin des Aubépines.
6MIC
Salle des Musiques Actuelles du Pays d’Aix
160, rue Pascal Duverger
13090 Aix-en-Provence
HOW TO GET TO THE 6MIC ?
COMMENT VENIR AU 6MIC ?
160 rue Pascal Duverger, 13090 Aix-en-Provence
Le 6MIC est situé à l’entrée du nouveau quartier de la Constance à Aix-en-Provence, à quelques centaines de mètres de la Fondation Vasarely, au niveau du chemin des Aubépines.
PARKINGS RELAIS
Correspondance avec l’Aixpress (ligne A)
– Parking Lieutenant-colonel Jeanpierre 600 places – Accès
– Parking Krypton 900 places – Accès
– Centre commercial Jas de Bouffan
EN BUS*
Ligne A – Aixpress
> Arrêt Vasarely, puis 600m (10 minutes) puis cheminement piéton chemin des Aubépines
> Arrêt Coq d’Argent, puis cheminement piéton route de Valcros (10 minutes)
* Stationnez dans les parkings relais.
2,20 € ticket de bus A/R pour tous les passagers de la voiture 1/2 tarif pour les étudiants
EN VOITURE
A51 depuis Marseille / Pertuis : sortie Aix-Jas de Bouffan
A8 depuis Nice : direction Gap A51 puis sortie 7 Jas de Bouffan
A8 depuis Avignon, sortie 29 Aix-Ouest, puis suivre « la Constance » / 6MIC.
STATIONNER AU 6MIC
PARKINGS
Suivez la signalétique à l’approche du 6MIC.
– Parking du 6MIC 200 places
– Parking face au 6MIC 170 places
– Parking de la fondation Vasarely 100 places
Vasarely Foundation, hall n°5
Reflecting on the art and avant-garde look that Victor Vasarely focused on the role of the artist in the twentieth century, the Foundation was created to popularize art without cultural or social discrimination: an art for all; accessible to everyone.
Avant-garde architecture, the Foundation is thought of as a gigantic lumino-kinetic sculpture where the optical animations of the facade prefigure the kinetic games of the 42 monumental integrations that we discover inside the building.
The most famous works of Victor Vasarely are presented to the Foundation in the form of monumental works allowing the visitor to appreciate the outcome to which Vasarely brings geometric abstract painting under the name of kinetic art. Vasarely was one of the promoters of this movement, as well as his son Yvaral, visual artist and graphic designer. The Foundation presents their works, as well as those of contemporary artists who work on the interactions between the work and the public in temporary exhibitions.
In creating his architectural center in 1976, Victor Vasarely made a gesture of exceptional significance and generosity. This French artist of Hungarian origin (Pécs 1906 – Paris 1997), internationally recognized as the father of Op Art, a specialist in optical and kinetic effects, as well as a brilliant advertising illustrator, created in Aix-en-Provence “La Cité polychrome of happiness “, bringing together visual artists, architects and urban planners, and wished to promote a social art accessible to all.
