Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Le musee d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain) description and photos - France: Nice (Topic)

Museum of Contemporary and Contemporary Art (Le musee d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain) description and photos - France: Nice. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photographs and a map showing the nearest significant objects. The title in English is Le musee d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain.

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The Museum of Contemporary and Contemporary Art in Nice is quite young - it was opened in 1990. However, plans to create such a museum were being built back in the middle of the 20th century.

The first project of reworking an already existing gallery was supported by Henri Matisse, but never materialized. Then it was supposed to attach a modern wing to the Historical Museum in the Palais Massena, but the project was abandoned, and a parking lot appeared in that place. Nevertheless, the idea was in the air - after the success of the French art movement "New Realism", it became clear that a museum of contemporary art was needed, and it was in Nice (here one of the founders of new realism, Yves Klein, was born).

The museum was created with the financial support of the state. Architects Yves Bayard and Henri Vidal have developed an unusual design for the building. It consists of four thirty-meter towers, whose smooth, shiny Carrara marble facades have no windows. The towers are connected by glass passages. Nine exhibition halls with a total area of 4 thousand square meters are located on three levels: the first houses temporary exhibitions, the second and the third - permanent collections.

The works stored here represent various trends of avant-garde art, starting from 1960- s to the present day. Of course, new realists are widely represented - Yves Klein (the museum has twenty of his works), Cesar, Christo, Francois Dufresne, Gerard Deschamps and many others. The works of the pillars of American pop art - Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Indiana, as well as abstract artists - Kenneth Noland, Larry Poons, Frank Stella, Olivier Mosset, Martin Barr. Minimalists include, for example, Saul Le Witt and Richard Serra. In addition, here you can see the works of German Fauves and Italian avant-garde artists, as well as examples of ironic and naive art, comics, graffiti.

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