The word of our President
Dear Members, Dear Friends,
I remind you of our next meeting, Tuesday, November 15th at 10:30 a.m. at the 6MIC for the next conference by Agnès Ghenassia “Art and War in the 20th and 21st centuries”. Another exciting subject that has inspired many artists.
While the Art of the past is punctuated by “History paintings” documenting the great conflicts in a heroic or romantic way, we can consider in the 20th century that only Guernica can still be qualified as History painting…
Please also note the last conference of the year, Tuesday December 13th at the 6MIC whose subject will be “Hans Hartung and Anna-Eva Bergman, the endlessly reinvented abstraction” by Agnès Ghenassia.
These next conferences promise to be very interesting and promise us great discoveries.
Regards to all,
Sylvie Piquemal
Présidente
Juin and september 2022
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Our next meeting
Tuseday November 12th at 10:30 a.m. at 6MIC for a new conference by Agnès Ghenassia.
Art and war in the 20th and 21st centuries
A conference by Agnès Ghenassia
Tuesday the 15th of November 2022 at 10:30 am
While the art of the past is punctuated by “History paintings” documenting the great conflicts in a heroic or romantic way, we can consider in the 20th century that only Guernica can still be qualified as History painting.
However the war of 14-18 was well documented by painters, then the second world war upset the course of the history of art, so much the trauma could not be expressed by the classic plastic means. The Vietnam War, the war in the Balkans, all the great conflicts have found an echo in the practice of artists, up to the current war that Russia is inflicting on Ukraine.
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The conference will be held at the 6MIC (Salle des Musiques Actuelles du Pays d’Aix), located at the entrance to the new district of Constance in Aix-en-Provence, a few hundred meters from the Vasarely Foundation, at the level of the chemin Hawthorns.
6MIC
Salle des Musiques Actuelles du Pays d’Aix
160, rue Pascal Duverger
13090 Aix-en-Provence
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.