NOTES INTERDITES

 AN EXHIBITION BY GÉRARD TARIDE

 From July 5 to November 4, 2024

Château-Musée Grimaldi  Cagnes-sur-mer

In 2021, Gérard Taride won the City of Cagnes-sur-Mer prize at the Grimaldi castle-museum during the Moi-Je exhibition, coordinated by the Mediterranean Union for Modern Art (UMAM).

In 2024, the artist was once again invited to the castle under the curatorship of Simone Dibo-Cohen, president of the UMAM and the Contemporary Art Biennale, and signed a monumental exhibition that he decided to devote to MUSICAL CENSORSHIP. He shares with us his questions on the "fever" that infects our societies ...

  Born in Nice in 1964, Gérard Taride was immersed in the artistic world throughout his childhood thanks to his father Bernard Taride, a figure of the Nice School and a jazz enthusiast who took him several times to discover performances and exhibitions from New Realism. Gérard Taride began a musical career in 1980 then turned to design and created a chain of stores called XXL, decoration in France and Europe. Interested in scenography and new technologies, Taride explores new modes of creation by mixing different mediums.

This passion for contemporary creation leads him to question musical censorship within the Grimaldi castle-museum. Notes interdits brings together a selection of monumental pieces, questioning our relationship with music and musicians.

Taride invites the public to discover immersive installations in certain areas of the castle where visual and sound elements blend in this architectural setting. His artistic activity refuses to be embodied in a particular style or medium and strives to disrupt our habits by building new models of artistic experiences. 

"Right from the entrance, in the patio, there is an installation that will simulate the waves up to the tower, it is the most beautiful place in the castle. It is magical. For me, these stairs are paradise. Do you know the Led Zeppelin song Stairway to Heaven? It will end with the stairs to paradise" Gérard Taride 

The exhibition will extend to the entire Chateau-Musée Grimaldi, theming all its rooms, from the entrance hall to the Belvedere: Musical Fibres, In the mix, Entartete Musik, No music, Ego drum, Stairway to heaven .

The tour invites the visitor to reflect on subjects dear to the artist: the celebration of cultural diversity, past intolerance (degenerate art under the Nazi regime) and current intolerance (musical censorship reflecting an era), the fever that is raging on the planet, these flows of information that increase pressure and violence or censorship ... until the ascent to the belvedere of the Château, towards a paradise perhaps?

Guided tours are organized as part of the temporary exhibition

Thursdays July 11 and 18 - Thursdays August 1, 8 and 22 - Monday September 16 and Thursday September 26 - Thursday October 24

Reservations required