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Space Ferrero is currently closed

Its collections will be soon presented to the Museum of Modern Art and Contemporary Art.

Jean Ferrero, founder of the Gallery of the same name and actor life artistic Niçoise of the last fifty years, has been a witness privileged artistic movements, which under the generic name "Nice school", have emerged in Nice. Thanks to the proximity and to the friendship he had with the artists of this movement, his collection This is a relevant and indicative of artistic cross-fertilization reflection During this period. As such, this donation is of interest some history for the knowledge of the history of this current artistic.

The Ferrero gift is 853 works: 48 works by Arman, 37 Works of Caesar, 30 works of Ben and so-called artists the school of Nice as Claude Gilli, Robert Malaval, Bernar Venet, Serge III, Edmond Vernassa, Pinoncelli, Albert Chubac, Sacha Sosno. Jean-Claude Farhi...

Exhibition of 40 works of art of "the school of Nice" given by Jean Ferrero (photographer and actor of the artistic life in Nice these past fifty years) to the city of Nice. This will make it possible to discover the multicolored "Estafette" of Ben, 'the Concerto in Beijing"only work carried out in China and live by Arman, the first paintings of Venet from 1964, and also the works of Caesar, Gilly...

Here is the list of the works:

ARMAN (Nice 1928 - New York 2005)

Portrait Jean Ferrero trash, 1986
Concerto in Beijing, 1989
Garbage matte - series 87 / 100, 1964
Hermès in the keys, 2003 (sculpture)
Orbs (the lovers), N ° 1, 1979 (sculpture)
Housewife (multiple)

Bernar VENET (1941 Château-Arnoux-Saint-Auban - lives and works in New York and the Muy)

Relief - industrial painting, 1964

Jean-Claude FARHI (Paris 1940 - Monaco 2012)

Untitled (paint co-signed with Caesar), 1966
Engine, 1966 (sculpture)
Engine, 1966 (sculpture)
Monumental sculpture project, 2000 (sculpture)

Martine DOYTIER (Clichy 1947 - 1984 Nice)

Self-portrait at the school of Nice, 1984
The watchmaker, 80s (sculpture)

BEN (Naples, 1935 - lives and works in Nice)

Estafette Renault, 70 years
Here lives Ferrero, 1971
Coatrack, 1973 (sculpture)
The great Ferrero, 1985
I Shat my pants
It's a world AIDS, 1988
The road to the glory of the art in Nice, 1978
In this rag I saw a rabbit, 1989
I'm not afraid of Ferrero, 1994
Art is a mess, 2011

Robert MALAVAL (1937 Nice - Paris 1980)

Another portrait of Helen, 1971

SOSNO (1937 Marseille - Monaco 2013)

Portrait of Arman n ° 19/25, 1975

Edmond VERNASSA (Nice 1926 - Nice 2010)

Constraint, 1971 (sculpture)
Constraint, 1971 (sculpture)

Jean MAS (Nice 1946 - lives and works in Roquefort-les-pins)

Shadow

Jo GUICHOU (Antibes 1955 - lives and works in Nice)

Untitled (painting), 2004

CESAR (Marseilles 1921 - Paris 1998)

Compression of canisters (co-signed with Ben), 1989 (sculpture)
Homage to Morandi, 70 years
Keeps expanding, 1966
Compression of papers

Claude GILLI (Nice 1938 - lives and works in Nice)

Fetish to nails, 1973 (sculpture)
Two mudslides, 1966/71
Three mudslides N ° 2/8 (sculpture)
Still life, 1999
Cantareu Bavous (Carnival float model), 1994 (sculpture)
Wink at the school of Nice, 2012

P. MOYA (Troyes 1955 - lives and works in Nice)

You live in Moya land? 2009

Jacques SÉCHAUD (the lodges under wood 1926 - lives in Nice)

The last supper - 10th anniversary of the manifesto, Milan, 1991

Bernard REYBOZ (Lyon 1951 - Antibes 2012)

Pebbles (Triptych), 1983-84

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The school of Nice is the art movement which developed in Nice at the end of the 50s; they were initially three artists: Arman, Klein and Raysse; There are now hundreds.
Characterizing them:
- Four membership criteria: first, an artist cannot be claim of the school of Nice if it is remote from all academism, of any agreement; Second, the artist must have achieved a significant part of its work in Nice or in its region; It should be initiating or engine, and not a follower movement; Finally, it must be part of a problem contemporary.
-There's been within the school of Nice, three movements: first, the so-called "new realism", it is a sort of "pop art" French appeared in the 1950s. or have distinguished three Niçois: Arman, Raysse and Klein, three artists that is often associated with Caesar (the OM neighbor); Then in the 1960s, the artists grouped around Fluxus (Ben, Alocco and Brecht,...) mix humor, iconoclastic poetry, gag,. details of life, with a view to exhausting all the possibilities of the... "Everything is art", everything becomes possible, and everyone can make art, and especially need places of consecration, the territories are exceeded (painting, sculpture, music, dance make a whole), we're Reinventing the poetry, it puts in scene in the daily actions, we engaged in theatre-actions and happenings anti-musique, with destruction of instruments of music, Burns of partitions, etc. you push the provocation to its acceptable limits, it appeals to the public, or even we insult their "small bourgeois" behaviour. Finally, in the 1970s, of many artists (Charvolen, Chacallis, Isnard, Maccaferri, Miguel,) ..., Viallat, Dolla and Saytour,...) join the "Group 70" and "Surface Support", two movements which, after the object as part of art and the attitude, return to the tools and procedures of painting a neglected time in favour of new forms of expression.
And then there's the unclassifiable: Bernar Venet, Albert Chubac, Malaval, Verdet, Eze or Jean Mas.

This will make it possible to discover the multicolored of "van" Ben, 'the Concerto in Beijing"only work performed in China and in direct by Arman, the first paintings of Venet from 1964, and also works of Caesar, Gilly...