The Inner Island
From April 29th to November 5th, 2023, the Fondation Carmignac on Porquerolles presents The Inner Island exhibition at Villa Carmignac. As a mise en abyme of the insular location of the Fondation on Porquerolles, the exhibition explores an essential driver of creation, as powerful as it is common: the distancing of reality as to reveal an interiority.
In the beginning are landscapes and bodies, landscapes in bodies then, as dreams often like to produce, a tangle of situation, situations that are blurry, pleasant, and sometimes
disturbing. Faced with work acting as mirages, the gaze wanders.
While contemporary art has never been as political or engaged with the world as it is now, a whole section of creation, and particularly in painting, is seemingly breaking away from it in
order to offer vertiginous immersions into inner worlds and recesses. What is the significance of this current distancing from reality?
More than 80 works by fifty artists, from private and public collections, including the Carmignac collection, but also new productions, will draw the dotted outlines of an inner island, inviting each visitor to fill in the gaps in their own way.
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From April 29th to November 5th, 2023, the Fondation Carmignac on Porquerolles presents The Inner Island exhibition at Villa Carmignac. As a mise en abyme of the insular location of the Fondation on Porquerolles, the exhibition explores an essential driver of creation, as powerful as it is common: the distancing of reality as to reveal an interiority.
In the beginning are landscapes and bodies, landscapes in bodies then, as dreams often like to produce, a tangle of situation, situations that are blurry, pleasant, and sometimes
disturbing. Faced with work acting as mirages, the gaze wanders.
While contemporary art has never been as political or engaged with the world as it is now, a whole section of creation, and particularly in painting, is seemingly breaking away from it in
order to offer vertiginous immersions into inner worlds and recesses. What is the significance of this current distancing from reality?
More than 80 works by fifty artists, from private and public collections, including the Carmignac collection, but also new productions, will draw the dotted outlines of an inner island, inviting each visitor to fill in the gaps in their own way.
Artists on show
- Adrián Villar Rojas
- Agnieszka Kurant
- Albert Oehlen
- Alexander Calder
- Ali Cherri
- Andrew Cranston
- Anna-Eva Bergman
- Antoine Espinasseau
- Auguste Rodin
- Bernard Pesce
- Bernard Pesce
- Bernard Plossu
- Camille Henrot
- Caroline Achaintre
- Cathy Josefowitz
- Christine Safa
- Christopher Wool
- Corentin Grossmann
- Darren Almond
- David Horvitz
- Edgar Sarin
- Etel Adnan
- Francesco Clemente
- Francis Upritchard
- Frank Walter
- Giulia Andreani
- Harold Ancart
- Helen Frankenthaler
- Henri-Edmond Cross
- Ida Tursic + Wilfried Mille
- Jean-François Auburtin
- Jean-Michel Basquiat
- Jennifer Douzenel
- Jérémy Demester
- Jill Mulleady
- Kiki Smith
- Léon Spilliaert
- Lucas Arruda
- Marcella Barcelo
- Marcus Cope
- Mark Bradford
- Norbert Schwontkowski
- Otobong Nkanga
- Peter Doig
- Pia Krajewski
- Ragna Bley
- Rodney Graham
- Roy Lichtenstein
- Sigmar Polke
- Simon Hantaï
- Tim Breuer
- Verne Dawson
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