Discovering La Commanderie de Peyrassol, the Fondation Venet, the Fondation Maeght, the Fondation Hartung Bergman and the Fondation CAB, between the Var and the Alpes-Maritimes.
Bernar Venet currently lives in Muy (Var) in the conceptual art foundation he created in 2014, around a 16th-century windmill purchased in 1989, the epicenter of a sculpture park and an art gallery. A return to Provençal roots for the son of a schoolteacher from Château-Arnoux, who arrived in Nice in the 1960s, for an artistic journey that would lead him a few years later to settle in New York. In 1966, a first stay at Arman’s invitation was the prelude to more than half a century of life beyond the Atlantic.
The ineffable, the intangible, the inscrutable: during his dazzling life, Yves Klein sought to materialize them in the language of pigments.
Klein Blue or International Klein Blue, emblematic of the work
Blue, a revelation: this saturated blue overseas, IKB, combined with a fixing agent that allows it not to lose its intensity, constitutes the paradigm of a flamboyant work carried by the idea of universal permeation through color. A «blue beyond the pale»: it radiates vibrations of the mind. For Yves Klein, it is the most abstract color: «Blue has no dimension; it is beyond dimensions. All colors bring associations of concrete ideas, while blue evokes at most the sea and the sky, which is the most abstract thing in tangible and visible nature.» IKB blue was developed with a chemist from the pharmaceutical industry who helped the artist find an adjuvant, a synthetic resin called Rhodopas, whose property is to shrink when dried to reveal and reveal the pure pigment.
Perhaps you have wandered through the Tuileries Gardens without ever noticing them… the place houses numerous contemporary works to discover, acquired by the State or installed by foundations. You need to step away from the main avenues and look for them among the trees and flowerbeds. Here are three of them to discover or rediscover during your next stroll.
