The Villa Carmignac Explores Artists’ Inner Islands

Published on 26 May 2023, by Sylvie Blin

Curator of the Pinault Collection Jean-Marie Gallais sets out to create a mise en abyme of the Villa Carmignac’s island setting. Nestled on the island of Porquerolles, the exhibition shows how artists sometimes keep reality at a distance to better explore their inner worlds. More than eighty works - the majority...

Norbert Schwontkowski (1949-2013), Sopot, 2010, oil on canvas, 200 x 180 cm/78.75... The Villa Carmignac Explores Artists’ Inner Islands

Norbert Schwontkowski (1949-2013), Sopot, 2010, oil on canvas, 200 x 180 cm/78.75 x 70.87 in.
Courtesy Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin. Photo : Jens Ziehe

The mise en abyme of the insular location of the Villa Carmignac, nestled on the island of Porquerolles, in the Var, or how artists sometimes keep reality at a distance the better to explore their inner worlds: that is the goal of curator Jean-Marie Gallais, conservator of the Pinault Collection…

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