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The museum gallery :

Newly established in the heart of Old Nice, the museum offers temporary monographic exhibitions of the biggest names in photography or thematic presenting all the trends, from the old photograph to the digital image.

One of the missions of this institution is to gather a photographic collection on Nice and its region, by searching for ancient documents but also by entrusting to photographers authors missions of inventory of the human, urban, historical, natural and industrial city.

Thus, the museum has an adjoining gallery devoted to its photographic collection, today consisting of 1700 images and 220 objects.

MUSEUM OF CHARLES NEGRE PHOTOGRAPHY

1 Place Pierre Gautier 06364 NICE CEDEX 4
Telephone: +33 (0) 4 97 13 42 20
E-mail: musee.photo@ville-nice.fr

Open everyday save Monday
from 11am to 6pm: from January 2nd to June 22nd and from October 16th to December 21st
and from 10:00 to 18:00: from 23 June to 15 October

Presentation :

With nearly 1,300 works and more than 300 artists, MAMAC covers a vast period from the late 1950s to today.
His collections find their essential articulation in the relationship between the New European Realism and the American expression of the art of assembly and Pop Art. The object thus occupies a pivotal place.
Two major figures of twentieth-century art form the heart of the collections: Yves Klein, thanks to the archives of the Yves Klein Archives, and Niki de Saint Phalle is the most important collection of the artist in France (and the second in Europe ) following his donation in 2001.

At the same time, MAMAC offers a beautiful panorama of European and American artistic creation of the last sixty years.
Finally, this story is enriched by the presentation of artists from the artistic scene from the 1980s to the present day marked in particular by advertising aesthetics, figurative painting, the development of personal mythologies and diversion.
MAMAC’s major challenge is to link regional and international artistic history. Indeed, from the end of the 1950s, the Riviera territory was marked by an artistic emulation around the act of appropriation (with the New Realists), the art of attitude (with Fluxus) and the surrender involved in the table (with Support / Surface and Group 70).

The main movements of the collection :

Born around 1955 in England then relayed in the United States by Robert Rauschenberg, the Pop’Art is famous for its plastic language resulting from the mass culture and the spectacular of the urban consumer society; advertising, cars, music, cinema, become the favorite themes of Andy Warhol, Tom Wesselmann, Claes Oldenburg, James Rosenquist, Roy Lichtenstein, Jim Dine, Robert Indiana, George Segal, John Chamberlain.

During French Pop’Art American, the New Realism brings together between 1960 and 1963 around the critic Pierre Restany, a heterogeneous group of artists close to the spirit of Duchamp and sharing through “the adventure of the object … a new perceptual approach of the real “. In addition to the metaphysical concerns of Yves Klein, we can include the Compressions of Caesar, Accumulations of Arman, Shots of Niki de Saint-Phalle, Christo’s Packaging, Affichists such as François Dufrêne, Raymond Hains, Jacques de Villeglé and Mimmo Rotella, Daniel Spoerri’s Trap-Traps, Martial Raysse’s Advertising Displays, and Jean Tinguely’s technological resources.

Refusing the Pop imagery and the gestures of Abstract Expressionism, American artists will, from 1962 on, under the term of Minimal Art or Conceptual Art renew the pictorial and sculptural approach of abstraction. From the pre-minimalism of Morris Louis and Ellsworth Kelly (who practices a hard-edge painting, “at the sharp limit”) to Frank Stella (practicing like Kenneth Noland a Color-field painting, “of colored field”, on a canvas Shaped canvas, from the legacy of Pollock in the works of Larry Poons or Jules Olitski to that of Barnett Newman at Richard Serra and Sol LeWitt, the Minimal Art seems to speak more to mind than the senses.

Parallel to the American situation and close to B.M.P.T, the southerners collective of Supports-Surfaces is created from 1969 to 1972 around the magazine Painting, theoretical notebooks directed by Philippe Sollers and Marcelin Pleynet. Marxist artists with ideological and semiological disagreements, all, however, inaugurate a work on the “repressed” of painting: the imprint at Claude Viallat, soaking at Noël Dolla, as well as the knotting or canvas released from the frame. Under this name are Louis Cane, Daniel Dezeuze, Vincent Bioulès, and more indirectly Bernard Pagès, Jacques Martinez and Bernar Venet.

Close to the surfaciens, the Nice artists of the Group 70 gathered around Raphael Monticelli, Marcel Alocco, Serge Maccaferri, Martin Miguel, then Max Charvolen, Louis Chacallis and Vivien Isnard go in the same direction.

The magazine Fluxus was born in the United States in 1961 before arriving in Europe in 1963. More than a group, Fluxus represents a state of mind with nihilistic humor close to a non-art. Gathered around the “dadaist” music of John Cage, La Monte Young or Pierre Schaeffer, Fluxus artists practice a performance art: Ben Vautier who completed the tour in Nice in 1963, Nam June Paik, Robert Filliou, Brecht or Beuys in the lead, but also Pierre Pinoncelli and Serge III.

The 1980s saw a resurgence of figuration in European painting: the Italian Trans-avant-garde, the New German Fauves and the French Free Figuration in 1981. For these artists close to Keith Haring, it is necessary to reconnect with the spontaneity of creation and the populist idea of ​​advertising, comics and punk-rock music. Under the banner of Free Figuration, Jean-Michel Alberola, Jean-Charles Blais, Robert Combas, Hervé di Rosa, François Boisrond and Rémi Blanchard can be brought together

Discover the exhibitions of the moment and the permanent collection of the museum.
And especially do not forget the terraces … to finish in beauty, eyes on the bay …

Free visit from Tuesday to Sunday from 10h to 18h

Reservation required for groups
Contact: mamac@ville-nice.fr

Created during the lifetime of the artist, with the support of the Minister of Culture André Malraux, and inaugurated in 1973, the museum is also known as the “Marc-Chagall National Biblical Message Museum” because it houses the series of seventeen paintings illustrating the biblical message, painted by Chagall and offered to the French State in 1966. This series illustrates Genesis, Exodus and the Song of Songs.

But as the collections grew, what was a thematic museum illustrating the biblical message became a true monographic museum dedicated to the religious and spiritual work of Chagall. In 1972, the painter gave the museum all the preparatory sketches of the Biblical Message as well as stained glass and sculptures, and in 1986, the museum acquired by dation, the complete suite of sketches and gouaches made for the Exodus as well as ten other paintings , which includes the triptych Resistance, Resurrection, Liberation. Other acquisitions have come to complete the museum’s collections, which today have one of Marc Chagall’s largest collections of works.

ACCESS AND OPENING TIMES

Opening hours: every day except tuesday
From November to April : 10am > 5pm
Exceptional closing 24th and 31th december at 4pm
From May to October : 10 am > 6pm

Address : 36 Avenue Dr Ménard, 06000 Nice

Téléphone : 04 93 53 87 20

Located at the foot of the old town of Menton, facing the market and the seaside, the Jean Cocteau Séverin Wunderman collection opened in November 2011.

It presents on 2,700 m² the work of the poet in all its facets, from the years 1910 to the 1950s and offers visitors exhibition spaces collections and temporary exhibitions, a pedagogical workshop, a graphic art cabinet, a space of documentary resources, a café, a bookstore shop.

The visit to the museum continues at the Bastion, designed by Jean Cocteau between 1958 and 1963. The famous drawings of the Innamorati, the studies for the decorations of the wedding hall, as well as the pottery made in the building are presented. Madeline-Jolly workshop.

The museum thus becomes the first and most important public resource worldwide for Jean Cocteau’s work.

In September 2005, the Ministry of Culture and Communication approved the inclusion of the Séverin Wunderman collection in the inventory of the Jean Cocteau Museum, winner of the “Musée de France” label since 2003.

A donation of 1,800 works
The donation of Séverin Wunderman has 1,800 works including 990 works by Jean Cocteau.

It offers a very complete vision of the work of Jean Cocteau: all periods are represented, from the first self-portraits of the 1910s to the “Mediterranean” period of the end of his life, little known to the general public.

The museum presents paintings, drawings, ceramics, tapestries, jewelery, photographs, sound documents, film extracts, but also 450 works by great masters of modern art from Jean Cocteau’s entourage: Picasso, Modigliani, De Chirico, Miro, Foujita … and an exceptional collection of 360 works related to Sarah Bernhardt who was Jean Cocteau’s first “sacred monster”.

In addition to the masterpieces representative of the many facets of Jean Cocteau’s genius, the collection also reveals the man through many portraits and testimonies of his artist friends.

A museography over the life of Jean Cocteau.

Each year, a renewed exhibition of 150 to 200 works will reveal Cocteau’s plural genius and the density of his work.

The architecture
Facing the shoreline of the City of Menton, the building designed by Rudy Ricciotti welcomes, on 2 700 sqm, all works from the donation Séverin Wunderman.

Inspired by the many facets of Jean Cocteau’s genius who called his work “an object difficult to pick up”, the architecture of the museum is multiple, fragmented, sometimes elusive in the image of the exterior facade of the building.

In addition to the permanent collections, the museum includes spaces that host temporary exhibitions dedicated to contemporary drawing, a boutique bookstore and a café.

Contact and Access:

Musée Jean Cocteau collection Séverin Wunderman

2, quai de Monléon – 06500 MENTON