Labeled an art center of national interest in 2020, the Espace de l'Art Concret, in Mouans-Sartoux, in Provence, is celebrating its 30th anniversary a year late. Its director looks back on a project born of the passion of two artists and collectors: Sybil Albers-Barrier and Gottfried Honegger.
How would you describe the Espace de l'Art Concret (EAC)? This place is rather a rare bird in France because it is an art center holding a collection dedicated to geometric abstraction, conceptual and minimal art, which was given to the State in 2000 by its founders, Gottfried Honegger and Sybil Albers, after ten years of activity. Since then, we have been managing a collection that belongs to the Centre National des Arts Plastiques and is on loan at the Espace de l'Art Concret. This particularity has changed our role: beyond our support for contemporary creation, we are also involved in conservation, development and dissemination, as well as our increasingly important educational action. For the past 20 years, artist's residencies have also provided opportunities to shed light on a particular aspect of the collection. In 2018, Katrin Ströbel, for example, was interested in reassessing the place of women in the art concret movement, with a particular focus on Dadamaino's work.
This brings to mind Vera Molnár, whom you…
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