Musée d'art moderne et d'art contemporain
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  Location within Nice | |
| Established | 21 June 1990 |
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| Location | Place Yves Klein - 06364 Nice cedex 4 FRANCE |
| Coordinates | 43°42′05″N 7°16′43″E / 43.7014°N 7.2785°E |
| Type | Art museum |
| Visitors | 135714 per year (2012) |
| Website | www |
The MAMAC is closed as of Jan 2024 for four years of renovations. [1]
The Musée d'art moderne et d'art contemporain (Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art), also known as MAMAC, is a museum dedicated to modern art and contemporary art. It opened on 21 June 1990, in Nice, France.[2]
In 2010, the museum welcomed 162,951 visitors, making it the second most frequently visited single site in Nice.[3]
Location
The Museum is located near the Place Garibaldi. It was designed by two architects, Yves Bayard and Henri Vidal, and is shaped as a tetrapod arch straddling the course of the
Collections
The collections present an overview of the artistic creations considered as avant-garde, from the late 1950s to today, which belong to different movements:[5][6]
- The European François Dufrêne, Jean Tinguely, Gérard Deschamps, Daniel Spoerri, Raymond Hains, and Jacques Villeglé
- American Rauschenberg
- The School of Nice: Ben Vautier, Sacha Sosno and Robert Malaval is close to several representative works of Fluxus
- The Arte Povera includes artists such as Pier Paolo Calzolari, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Enrica Borghi, and Luciano Fabro
- Supports and Surfaces are represented through Noel Dolla, Marcel Alocco, André-Pierre Arnal, Louis Cane, Daniel Dezeuze, Vincent Bouliès, Marcel Devade, Christian Jaccard, Claude Pagès, and Claude Viallat
- The American minimalism and color field is shown with Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski, Ellsworth Kelly, Larry Poons, and Frank Stella.
Donations and deposits
Since the opening, Yves Klein has a room which displays approximately twenty of his works, several of them belonging to the permanent collection of the museum.
In October 2001, Niki de Saint Phalle bequeathed a large part of her collection to the city of Nice for the museum. The donation consists of 170 works including 63 paintings and sculptures, 18 prints, 40 lithographs, serigraphs, and 54 many original documents.[7]
In 2004, artist Albert Chubac gave a hundred works to the Museum.[8]
In 2010, the collector Khalil Nahoul offered 94 art pieces (paintings, drawings, prints).[9]
Temporary exhibitions
Since the opening of the Museum on June 21, 1990, over 213 exhibitions have been presented.
- 3 exhibitions are actually running (May 2013)
- 8 exhibitions were shown at the Galerie des Ponchettes
- 34 exhibitions were shown in the display cabinet
- 89 exhibitions were shown at the Museum's Galery
- 79 exhibitions were shown in the Museum
Bibliography
- Musée d'art moderne et d'art contemporain, Éditions des Arts graphiques, Nice, 1997 (ISBN 2901412785)
References
- ^ https://monacolife.net/nices-mamac-closes-for-four-years-of-extensive-renovations/
- ^ "Musée d'art moderne et d'art contemporain".
- ^ "Église russe : on n'entre plus... pour l'instant".
- ^ "Infos / Tourisme Nice >> Culture Nice >> Musée d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain" (in French). cote.azur.fr. Retrieved 26 June 2011.
- ^ "Musée d'Art moderne et d'Art contemporain de Nice" (in French). evene.fr. Retrieved 26 June 2011.
- ^ "Accueil / Culture / Musées et expositions / M.A.M.A.C" (in French). Nice Côte d'Azur. Retrieved 26 June 2011.
- ^ Nice Matin (in French). Nice: Nice-Matin Group. 12 October 2001.
{{cite journal}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ^ Nice Matin (in French). Nice: Nice-Matin Group. 28 January 2004.
{{cite journal}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ^ "#MAMAC , Nice's Modern Art and Contemporary Art Museum. [VIDEO-PHOTO GALLERY]". ItalyRivierAlps. 2015-06-19. Retrieved 2023-05-04.
