Les Apéros de l'été à Aix-en-Provence et dans le Pays d'Aix

Aix en Provence

Aperitif season has come to stay in Aix so you can't miss this tradition! From cocktails on the terrace to a small glass of wine and fresh juice, there's something for everyone! Pre-dinner drinks, poolside tipples, happy hour in the city centre, be sure to check out our list of summer events. Your dream drinks are bound to be there. Please drink responsibly

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Marseille

Picasso - Picabia, la peinture au défi

Aix en Provence

The Musée Granet, a cultural landmark in the City of Aix-en-Provence, is playing host from 9 June to 23 September 2018 to one of the highlights of this summer's artistic calendar: “Picasso Picabia - Painting Defied”. This exhibition is part of the “Picasso Mediterranean 2017-2019” season launched by the Musée National Picasso, Paris. An unprecedented opportunity to compare and contrast works by two of the greatest names in modern art, founders of the most important artistic movements of the 20th century, it features key works from the museum's collections. This highly original show will also feature many exceptional loans from private owners and leading French and international museums and galleries in France. Organised chronologically and by theme, this exhibition compares masterpieces by an unexpected artistic tandem - “friendly enemies” who, despite their irreconcilable differences, shared an intriguing kinship apparent from the start of their careers. Spanning the decades from the early 20th century to 1973 - the year of Picasso's death - it explores the most outstanding experiments in modern art, from the original Cubism and its successors to the Dada mechanical aesthetic, from Ingres-inspired Classicism to “monster” surrealism, from representational painting to the portrait, and from the use of photography to the return to abstraction at the end of Picabia's life. Featuring more than 150 works - paintings, drawings, photographs, archive material and more - displayed in 800 sq.m of exhibition space at the Musée Granet, this exhibition takes visitors on a fascinating journey through the artistic movements of the last century. The common thread running through this unique exhibition, which aims to shed new light on modernity, is the extreme artistic freedom enjoyed by Picabia and Picasso. An extensive catalogue containing articles by leading international experts on both artists has been published to coincide with the show. This exhibition is jointly organised by the Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence and the Fundación Mapfre, where it will be shown from 12 October 2018 to 13 January 2019. Curators : Aurélie Verdier, curator at the Musée national d'art moderne, MNAM-Cci, Centre Georges Pompidou Bruno Ely, ddirector of the Musée Granet, head curator. Guided tour in English (1h) : From June, 9 to September, 23 : on Friday at 3pm. And in July and August, on Wednesday at 3pm.

Nicolas de Staël en Provence

Aix en Provence

The Caumont Centre d'Art presents the ‘Nicolas de Staël in Provence' exhibition. This exhibition focuses on the development of the work of Nicolas de Staël painted in Provence between July 1953 and October 1954. It presents some 80 paintings and drawings. This year marked a turning point in the life and work of the painter: discovery of the light of the midi, intense experience of solitude and a frenetic output of paintings with a consciousness in the grip of a vision of the world to be accomplished.

Exposition Bernard Buffet

Saint Rémy de Provence

Paul Signac (1863 - 1935) "Lumière du Midi"

Les Baux de Provence

Picasso en plein air par Lucien Clergue

Les Baux de Provence

Soleil chaud, soleil tardif

Arles

The collective exhibition of the year 2017 brings together a selection of works by contemporary and historical artists who highlight our designs of simplicity-oriented lifestyles. Playing the card of free associations, "The simple life - simply life" draws from the fantasies and nostalgic impulses called by its very title. This simple life takes its original Van Gogh in his first experiences as a pastor and the Borinage, the Walloon mining area. The ideal of life is also expressed in his unwavering admiration for the art and the person of Jean-François Millet, painter of French peasant life of the 19th century. If the two historical anchorages offer Millet and Van Gogh are a basis for exposure, they also allow to discuss the topic with cheerfulness. The image of the translation in movements and colors of the peasant scenes of Millet by Van Gogh, the majority of the collected works continues the wish of the Dutch painter: "to show that we can be simple with something else of gray, white, black and" brun1 "."Designed specifically for the exhibition or low exposure in France, the works of 'The simple life' - simply life evoke the different aspects of the term of "simplicity", such, for example, life forms and the report of man with nature and the esp ECE animal. The contributions of contemporary artists also to deconstruct the myth of a lifestyle oriented appeasement and pure.The animated film The Pure Necessity (the Pure need, 2016) of David Claerbout is an amazing adaptation of the the jungle book produced by Disney in 1967. The installation of Pawel Althamer creates conditions for a friendly between visitors and animals at feathers while the film O Peixe (The Fish, 2016) of Jonathas de Andrade, filmed in Brazil, called ambiguous feelings about the death of an animal. The series of photographs Iris Tingitana (2007, latin name of the native iris of Tangier) Yto Barrada us returns, with the flower very present in the iconography of Van Gogh, "Botany of power" while the xylographs of Andrea Büttner seem to be an anthem to humility. It is through a selection of santons of the 18th and 19th centuries that are questioned objects of popular piety and the representation of the "small trades" that can be found in the paintings of Van Gogh.

Les chambres des Merveilles

Tarascon

Charles Sandison, the nature of Love

Aubagne

Picasso et les modernes espagnoles

Les Baux de Provence