The Espace de l’Art Concret in Mouans-Sartoux
is pleased to present its exhibition program to discover throughout the year 2025
Lamarche & Ovize
364 seasons
January 25 • May 18, 2025
Lamarche & Ovize © Adagp, Paris 2024.
Florentine and Alexandre Lamarche-Ovize call for their artistic practice to be inscribed in life. To this end, they are pursuing research into the link between art and crafts. This time, they have chosen to immerse themselves in the world of the gourmet restaurant Le Mirazur in Menton. The exhibition bears witness to their research and experimentation in this atypical place. In addition, many of the duo's works are rooted in the theories of Elisée Reclus. This geographer, who participated in the Paris Commune, a popular revolutionary movement in 1871, advocated the defense of nature and its specificities, as a precursor to ecological research.
Mustapha Azeroual
March 8 • May 4, 2025
Mustapha Azeroual, Sillage - On a Moonless Night - Sainte-Marguerite Island, 2024 Video installation created during the residency at the Centre de la photographie de Mougins, in collaboration with Yves Rousguisto. © Adagp, Paris 2024.
The Espace de l’Art Concret is teaming up with the Centre de la Photographie de Mougins to present an exhibition highlighting young photographic creation. The exhibition recreates the experiences on perception of the photographer Mustapha Azeroual who places the visitor in front of works questioning their senses, whether it be sight, sound or smell.
Gottfried Honegger, From the singular to the plural
March 29, 2025 • February 22, 2026
Gottfried Honegger © Atelier Gottfried Honegger, Zurich.
Artists: Gottfried Honegger and a selection of works by artists from the collection
For this new chapter of reinterpretation of the collection, the founder of the Espace de l’Art Concret, Gottfried Honegger, will be honored. For Gottfried Honegger, art has a social function of broadening the mind and knowledge. Based on this conviction, he gradually assembled, with his partner Sybil Albers, a large collection representing the multiple trends of geometric abstraction but also works from different horizons.
Schroth Collection
June 8, 2025 • January 4, 2026
Bâtiment de la collection Schroth à Soest en Allemagne © droits réservés.
The Schroth collection is the fruit of the passion and commitment of Carl-Jürgen Schroth, a German industrial engineer from Arnsberg, who started this project in the 80s. In 2014, he created the Conceptual Art Foundation for his own collection, which has continued to expand. It currently has around 400 works by artists such as Yves Klein, Hellmut Bruch, Heiner Thiel and Beat Zoderer. This collection obviously highlights the German art scene, with among others: Imi Knoebel, Hartmut Böhm, Leo Erb, Ivo Ringe, Günter Umberg, Lore Bert and Ulrich Rückriem, also present in the Albers-Honegger collection, of which around forty works will be presented in parallel in the exhibition spaces in Soest, Germany.
Also currently on view at the eac.:
Francis Bacon and the Golden Age of Design
Until January 5, 2024
June 9, 2024 • January 5, 2025opening Sunday, June 9 at 11 a.m.Co-curatorship: Elsa Boustany, Francis Bacon MB Art FoundationandFabienne Grasser-Fulchéri, director of the eac.Albers-Honegger donationArtists (list in progress):Francis Bacon, Sonia Delaunay,Roy De Maistre, Eileen Gray,Pierre Jeanneret, Fernand Léger, Le Corbusier,AndréLurçat, Robert Mallet-Stevens, Charlotte Perriand, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Exhibitionin partnership with the Francis Bacon MB Art Foundation, Monaco
As the Albers-Honegger Donation building celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2024, the eac. has chosen, for this anniversary year, to put design in the spotlight by hosting an exhibition devoted to a little-known aspect of Francis Bacon's practice: the creation of furniture in the early 1930s, its influences and the traces of this period throughout his career.
Bacon said he was very influenced by French design. He also specified that post-cubism, but also Bauhaus, had left their mark on him and had constituted important sources of inspiration. However, it was during the same period, in 1930, that the Art Concret group was founded, whose principles can indeed be applied to other fields directly connected to reality and society, such as typography, architecture and design.
At the same time, Francis Bacon's work was noted in an issue of the British art magazine The Studio entitled "1930s Style in British Interior Design", which praised the surprisingly avant-garde nature of his interior designs. His furniture was mainly influenced by the work of designers of the time such as Pierre Chareau, Eileen Gray, Le Corbusier, André Lurçat, Robert Mallet-Stevens and Charlotte Perriand.
The exhibition tour presents a significant collection of works from this period by Francis Bacon: paintings, furniture, carpets and archival documents.
In order to draw a more complete portrait of the context of the period and the different influences of the artist that marked it, in addition to the presentation of design objects, pictorial works will also be brought together such as those of Roy de Maistre and Fernand Léger. A large part will be devoted to paintings from Fernand Léger's Purism period which directly echo the geometric designs of Francis Bacon's carpets.
The artist’s works presented will come from the Francis Bacon MB Art Foundation, which houses Majid Boustany’s private collection (MB ArtCollection). The latter includes the largest number of pieces of furniture and carpets dating from this period.
Elsa Boustany holds a BA in art history from UCL (University College London) and a Master’s degree in museology and art market from the École du Louvre (Paris). She is currently curator of the new exhibition “Francis Bacon: graphic works” at the Francis Bacon MB Art Foundation in Monaco.
Young designers from JAD in dialogue with the Albers-Honegger collection
Until March 2, 2024
The resident designers of the JAD - Jardin des métiers d’Art et du Design* in Sèvres, were invited by the eac. to immerse themselves in the Albers-Honegger collection by selecting works with which they feel in "resonance".
Their selections within the Albers-Honegger collection, enriched with their own works, will establish a dialogue beyond the techniques, the mediums used and the barrier of time and space.
Point, line, surface of light
Until January 5, 2025
The exhibition proposed by Pierre Coullet, physicist and professor at the Côte d'Azur University, aims to place science in the world of culture and particularly that of Art and the History of Civilizations.
The theme "Art and Geometry" is explored through optical devices and paintings illustrating the singular concentrations of light when it is reflected on curved mirrors or refracted by penetrating diopters (transparent volumes, water, glass, etc.).
herman de vries my poetry is the world
Until 05 January 2025
Herman de Vries and the Espace de l'Art Concret have a long history. Even before the art centre opened, Sybil Albers and Gottfried Honegger were already familiar with the artist's work, having acquired several of his works. The monographic exhibition dedicated to Herman de Vries shows the links that the artist forges between his artistic practice and his literary practice, particularly through his writings and his work as a publisher.
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