Young audience – Fondation Vincent Van Gogh Arles

Carnival Time!

service editions — Thu, 29 Nov 2018 14:09:09 +0000

James Ensor is an artist who grew up in Ostend, a town where life is punctuated every year by the carnival season: parades, marching bands, masks, fancy dress, streamers… The Belgian artist translates this party atmosphere into his pictures in a highly individual way. Welcome to his universe, tinged with dark humour!

Crédits :
James Ensor, Les Bains à Ostende, 1899
Eau-forte en noir (2/2)
214 × 269 mm ; 222 × 280 mm
© Adagp, Paris, 2018 © Ensor Foundation Ostend

Golden landscapes and azure skies

service editions — Thu, 29 Nov 2018 14:07:38 +0000

Van Gogh in Arles, Jean-Luc Mylayne travelling the world: one is a painter, the other a photographer, and yet both are seeking light and freedom. In a golden landscape and under an azure sky, let’s immerse ourselves in the expanses of nature where photography and painting exist side by side…

Crédits :
Jean-Luc Mylayne, N^o450, Janvier Février Mars 2007
183 × 228 cm
Collection Mylène et Jean-Luc Mylayne © Jean-Luc Mylayne

Feathered Friends

service editions — Thu, 29 Nov 2018 14:04:52 +0000

Jean-Luc Mylayne has been fascinated by these small feathery creatures ever since he was a child. On his travels, he chooses a landscape. Every morning he sits down in the same spot, waiting for the bird to make its appearance. Click – and it’s in the bag! Let’s go and look for these tits and bluebirds!

Crédits :
Jean-Luc Mylayne, N^o368, Février Mars 2006
123 × 153 cm
Collection Mylène et Jean-Luc Mylayne © Jean-Luc Mylayne

Not afraid of skulls!

service editions — Thu, 29 Nov 2018 14:03:12 +0000

Vincent van Gogh, Andy Warhol, Yan Pei-Ming, Damien Hirst, Philippe de Champaigne – all these artists share something in common: they have painted, sculpted and drawn skulls! But what was going through their mind? Many great artists make the skull a symbol of time passing, and accompany it with hourglasses, candles and even diamonds. Van Gogh, on the other hand, makes it the secret of every good self-portrait. Come and discover the mysteries hiding behind his painting.

Warning: danger!

service editions — Thu, 12 Jul 2018 12:45:51 +0000

FROM TUESDAY 23 TO FRIDAY 26 OCTOBER WITH LISE ROUSSEL

(4-day workshop)

As Sigmar Polke well understood, a painting is not simply a flat image presenting a harmonious visual appearance. On the contrary, it can address itself to all the senses, in the gentlest to the most corrosive manner. In carrying this to the extreme, Polke interrogates the forceful presence of a work, its sensory power, and also its artistic and political impact. With a great deal of scissors, stencils, paints and materials of all kinds, the picture becomes an object under tension, ready to explode.

For Lise Roussel, painting is an act before being an image. The picture is thus born out of its own movement and its own necessity. To construct an image with her preferred materials of paper and wood, she uses different painting techniques as well as collage and screen-printing. Treading a fine line between abstraction and figuration, spontaneity and rigour, her works explore pictoriality via the celebration of colour.

Lise Roussel in her studio, at work on No Man’s Land, acrylic on paper, 225 x 315 cm

Strange landscapes!

service editions — Thu, 12 Jul 2018 12:37:35 +0000

Giant mushrooms, the sun meeting the moon, rocks in curious shapes… There are some strange things going on in Paul Nash’s landscapes. This autumn, come and create your abstract landscape with us, between dream and reality.

Explosion of color

service editions — Thu, 12 Jul 2018 10:38:37 +0000

We are all sensitive to different colours: some make us happy, others make us feel sad, jangle our nerves or calm us down…

There are many ways of expressing yourself in paint – with your fingertips, at arm’s length, in a small or large format! Let us venture together into the work of Joan Mitchell, with its explosion of colours and rapid gestures.

I had a dream…

service editions — Fri, 03 Nov 2017 13:20:43 +0000

WITH THE L’ISBA COLLECTIVE (for ages 11 +)

Starting from a work of art, from several works of art, make a dream and have fun constructing a short story.

I had a dream… that’s how it starts.

This workshop is about putting the dream into words and movements, about speaking it alone or in a chorus, and about giving your imagination free rein. To help us dream, we shall be using some of the tools of theatre and calling upon the music of the accordion, and perhaps upon other sounds and recordings. We shall also spend time exploring the imagination of the artists… What was in the back of their minds? And then we shall return to our stories to imagine and dream a wandering in music. And… sing.

Based in Arles since 2009, the L’Isba collective shares its love of words, music-making, speech and theatre with the public. Its work draws upon texts, but equally upon human experiences, memories and differences. This desire to restore space to the spoken word and to share it translates into numerous workshops held both at the local level and in conjunction with Arles’ cultural institutions. Founders Catherine Krajewski, actress and drama teacher, François De Bortoli, sound composer and technical director, and Jean-François Veran, author/composer/performer, were soon joined by other “inventors”, who reinforce and enlarge the collective over the course of its productions, opening it ever wider to sounds and voices from outside.

Photo : Pixabay, CC0

Drawn on your resources!

service editions — Fri, 03 Nov 2017 11:32:35 +0000

Historical context, bibliographic and artistic sources – archives are a vital tool when it comes to understanding an exhibition and a work of art, whether past or present. Together we shall discover what role these inexhaustible resources play in the process of creating a work.

Photo : Pixabay, CC0

Exiting the frame

service editions — Fri, 03 Nov 2017 11:30:24 +0000

The artists in our current exhibition break through the barriers of the canvas to exit the frame. From floor to ceiling and even across the walls, the museum space becomes the support for artistic creation. Come and experience the surprising works appearing around you!

Photo: Dan Perjovschi, Projects 85: Dan Perjovschi, 2007, MoMa