The word of our President
Dear Members, Dear Friends,
I hope you all had a great holiday and a wonderful summer and we are delighted to see you again on Tuesday September 27 at 10:30 a.m. at 6MIC for a conference by Agnès Ghenassia whose theme will be “Children and Adolescents in Modern Art. and contemporary”.
Agnès Ghenassia wished to provide us with the following details:
The conference on Tuesday, September 27 at 6MIC will have the theme “children and adolescents in modern and contemporary art”, because many of us have rubbed shoulders with young people, young and old, during the summer. Without repeating the works of the exhibition “Presumed Innocents” of which we have already mentioned the controversies it had aroused, we will see how and why painters and sculptors take up this subject which is at once biographical, nostalgic and sometimes political. .
While waiting for the 27th, you will be able to come and enjoy at the Méjanes library, from September 13th, the exhibition of the work carried out by the GAG (Agnès Ghenassia’s group) during the 2021-2022 school year, About twenty visual artists amateurs among you worked around the cross-cutting theme of hybridizations: hybridization of cultures, techniques, media.
You are cordially invited to the opening on September 13 at 6 p.m.
Exhibition from September 13 to 24
Opening hours: 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Kind regards to all, and above all, take care of yourself.
Juin and september 2022
Venise trips by the friends of the Vasarely Foundation
Sylvie Piquemal
Présidente
Our next meeting
Wednesday October 12th at 10:30 a.m. at 6MIC for a new conference by Agnès Ghenassia.
The mirror in modern and contemporary art, a reflection device, 12th of October 2022
A conference by Agnès Ghenassia
Wednesday the 12th of September 2022 at 10:30 am
An essential instrument for the realization of self-portraits before photography, the mirror in painting has long been used to evoke the notions of narcissism, the ephemeral, knowledge, precision, philosophical meditation. But above all, the mirror opens up the space of the painting, questioning the mimetic power of painting. What about the moderns who refuse illusionism? Are the contemporaries who seized on real mirrors still within the tradition? We will try to reflect in images on these many questions.
MEMBERS ENTRY FEE : 5€ NON MEMBERS : 7€
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.