Devoted to 60 years of contemporary art, from 1951 to the present day Contemporary Art and the Côte d’Azur - An Area for Experimentation, 1951 – 2011 is the arts event of summer 2011.
An impressive itinerary covering fifty or so cultural centres (museums, art centres, art schools, foundations, galleries, cultural and arts associations) provides the public with works by over 300 artists, representative of a colourful history, punctuated with important trends, figures and events.
Contemporary Art and the Côte d’Azur aims to go beyond traditional clichés and to highlight the region’s importance as a veritable testing ground for the arts, producing and welcoming artists in an atmosphere of exceptional creative energy. This energy has reinvented itself down through the years as art has evolved, taking into account the social and political parameters that exceed the domain of creation.
La Côte d’Azur is still “the great art workshop” that art historian André Chastel spoke of. But it is also a testing ground for the arts; an “area for experimentation”, a feature highlighted in this exhibition.

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