The Group 70 was created by five artists : Louis Chacallis, Max Charvollen, Vivien Isnard, Serge Maccaferri and Martin Miguel and was very active in the Côte d’Azur region for a number of years. Although the five artists are all very different, they were united by a common denominator: Each sought to highlight the pictorial process and to question art and the definition of art. Poet and art critic Raphaël Monticelli followed the group and was responsible for their notoriety amongst the press and the public. He has written a number of books on each of the artists and this summer, will publish a work about the Group 70, with the support of the Sapone Gallery.