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Poetry by Joseph INGUIMBERTY at the Regards De Provence museum

An exhibition dedicated to the artist Joseph Inguimberty in his hometown

From May 6 to November 12, 2017, the Regards de Provence museum is dedicating a major retrospective to the work of the artist Joseph Inguimberty (1896-1971). Early works will be presented in which the port of Marseille holds an important place, also numerous unpublished testimonies of his life in Indochina between the years 1925 and 1946, as well as landscapes of the Provençal hinterland and the surroundings of Menton. , where the artist moved with his family after the war.

Joseph Inguimberty was born in Marseille in 1896. After his training in Decorative Arts and a promising start to his career (crowned by obtaining an important national award), in the mid-1920s, the young man was given a post of professor at the Hanoi School of Fine Arts, which has just been created in French Indochina. He will remain there for more than twenty years, living and working as closely as possible to the young generation of local artists.
In 1946, the political context forced him to return to France with his family, where he continued his career as a painter.
If the Asian experience has deeply marked both the artist and the man, Inguimberty will find in the South of France, especially in Provence and in the surroundings of Menton where he settles, something to serve as his inspiration. The Phocaean city is not far away, with its lively quayside which had served as a setting for the proclamation of its vocation.

Inguimberty is slowly regaining his place in a world that is certainly not the one he left as a young man. He clings to tradition, to experience, to a solid profession, acquired with difficulty, which allows him not to get lost on the way home. Thus, the art of Inguimberty is made of slow labor, sweet constancy.

The artist bequeaths us an intense, poetic, solid and sensitive work at the same time. A quiet strength, which takes all its time to unveil the rhythms of nature in a mat palette that does not seek to seduce, more to tame.

Nearly eighty canvases, most of which come from private collections, can be discovered at the Regards de Provence museum:

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