Transparitions
Domaine de Saint-Joseph / Le Tholonet - June 24, 25 and 26
DIALOGUE BETWEEN THE PAINTING OF FRANÇOIS AUBRUN AND SIX ARTISTS OF TODAY
François Aubrun (1934-2009), a painter of light and transparency, lived and worked for fifty years at the foot of Mount Sainte-Victoire, in a former monastery of the Jesuits: the Saint-Joseph du Tholonet estate. His work, which includes more than a thousand paintings and drawings, was the subject of a major retrospective at the Granet Museum in 1985, and is now regularly exhibited in Europe and the United States.
In June 2022, on the initiative of exhibition curator Romain Pierre, six artists from all walks of life will take over the Saint-Joseph estate and propose site-specific installations. Nourished by the history and landscape of this privileged site, they will also take on a fundamental notion in Aubrun's work: the quest for transparency.
The results of their research will be presented to the public from June 24 to 26, at the Saint-Joseph estate, as part of an exhibition entitled Transparitions (part of the program of Une 5ème Saison - Biennale d'art et de Culture d'Aix-en-Provence).
A conference at the Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence
On Thursday, June 16 at 6:00 pm, a conference will take place at the Musée Granet, in Aix-en-Provence, during which the artists who will participate in the project will reveal their inspirations, their discoveries and will share their reading of the art of François Aubrun.
Around the artists : Cyril Balny, video artist; Júlia Lema Barros, multimedia artist; Julie Camus, scenographer; Thomas Laigle, visual artist; Alexandre Ménéxiadis, composer; Fanny Perreau, lighting designer.
The Alexis Pentcheff Gallery is associated with this contemporary art event around François Aubrun
From June 21, 2022, as part of this event, the Alexis Pentcheff Gallery will present to the public four works by François Aubrun.
By this wink and the chance of our calendar, these works will rub shoulders on our walls with those of André Masson, who also lived in Le Tholonet and whose retrospective exhibition at the gallery, André Masson, a prophet, is coming to an end.
Discover the works of François Aubrun online here