Espace de l’Art Concret (EAC), Mouans-Sartoux, France
April 25, 2020
April 25, 2020–April 04, 2021
To inaugurate a series of events in celebration of the art center’s 30th anniversary, EAC is delighted to take part in a “collection swap” with the esteemed Lambert collection, which is celebrating its own 20th anniversary. The exhibition, Revenir vers le fxutur (Go back to the future), will take place in the Albers-Honegger Donation gallery space, whose own collection will find its temporary home in the Hôtel de Caumont in Avignon, Lambert Collection gallery.
There is a unique symbiosis between the Albers-Honegger Donation and the Lambert Donation. Original and very often eluding historical and aesthetic classification, both collections cross-reference different interpretations of contemporary art history. Untrammeled by convention, each collection nevertheless draws accolades for its coherency. Additionally, both collections, endowed with 700 and 556 works respectively, were set up through private initiative. Gottfried Honegger and Sybil Albers-Barrier in Mouans-Sartoux and Yvon Lambert in Avignon put their collections into public municipal buildings over several decades (the Mouans-Sartoux Château and Hôtel de Caumont in Avignon) before deciding to donate their artworks to the French nation. Both collections are today listed with the National Foundation for Contemporary Art (FNAC), a French State public collection managed by the National Centre for Visual Arts (CNAP).
Artists: John Armleder, Carl Andre, Bernard Aubertin, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Larry Bell, Max Bill, Marcel Breuer, Daniel Buren, Robert Combas, Dadamaino, Jan Dibbets, EMMANUEL, Fritz Glarner, Douglas Gordon, Gottfried Honegger, Donald Judd, Bertrand Lavier, Sol LeWitt, Robert Mangold, Olivier Mosset, François Morellet, Aurélie Nemours, Jean-Pierre Raynaud, Gerrit Thomas Rietveld, Robert Ryman, Richard Serra, Andres Serrano, Cédric Teisseire, Niele Toroni, Günther Uecker, Bernar Venet