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SCHOOL OF NICE

FROM POP ART TO HAPPENINGS

In her role as Head of Visual Arts of Le French May, Laure produced in 2018 the exhibition School of Nice - From Pop Art to Happenings at Hong Kong City Hall. The show was designed by the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MAMAC) in Nice, and documented the last major art movements in post-war France. It illustrates the city’s extraordinary contribution to the history of art in the 1960s–70s. At the time, the artists featured in the exhibition (Yves Klein, Arman, Ben, Cesar, Niki de Saint-Phalle, Martial Raysse, Rotraut, Bernar Venet, Ernest Pignon-Ernest, Claude Viallat, to name a few…) were instantly identified as trailblazers, quickly becoming highly influential, and were granted solo shows in major galleries in New York and Los Angeles. The MAMAC collection is quite unique in France, second only to the Centre Pompidou, which actually opened in 1977 in Paris with an exhibition featuring these very artists. This show revisited these key moments in the history of art and contributed to a new appreciation of post-war art in France.
The School of Nice created its own version of Pop Art, even more radical and daring than in America. Artists in Nice pioneered the international Pop Art movement.

The show featured over 100 artworks, from paintings to sculpture and installation as well as film (notably Agnes Varda).
 

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