We are all crazy

Carte blanche giving to Ben, Musée international d'art naïf Anatole Jakovsky, Holly Helen Castle, Frabron avenue, 06000 Nice, until May 6 2024, daily open except Thursdays (10am - 12.30pm, 1.30pm - 6pm), closed 01/01, Easter times, 01/05 and 24/12, phone : 04.93.71.78.83, ticket full price : 10€.

The Anatole Jakovsky Museum puts face to face the unidentified artist Ben owning to the Fluxus movement with the naïve artists coming from many continents for building a dialog. Ben thinks that all the artists are a little bit mad but they are too shy for showing it to everybody else. Since 1960 he takes the world under control and signs everything he touches (cans, canvas, ...) and after highlighted them in the shop he owns Tonduti de l'Escarène street. Ben is known for his special writing and sentences created in 1953 when he was young. Behind each of them a concept is hidden translating a truth with the goal thinking about like also his own artistic performances full of humor and not far from the dada spirit. Between the end of the 19th century to the beginning of the 20th century the naïve art belongs to vanguard. Artists making such art reject the western perspective, use a lot of flashy colors and give a huge importance to details. Today naïve art stays potent for art dealers. The traveller can watch through the exhibited canvas the common points among the artists. They are all originals without any specific technics but making many searches before working. Ben and the naïve artists own a strong sense of humor giving a huge importance to pigment and simplification far from each type of historicity.

Ben art work.

Caravage - artetcinemas.over-blog.com

Movie directed by : Michele Placido, writing credits : Sandro Petraglia, Fidel Signorile, Michele Placido, produced by : Vincenzo Bonomo, Rita Rognoni, Frederica Vincenti, Chariot, MACT Productions

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Goya, Carrière and the ghost of Bunuel - artetcinemas.over-blog.com

Documentary directed by : José Luis Lopez Linares, writing credits : Jean - Claude Carrière, Cristina Otéro Roth, produced by : Guy Amar, Danielle Ayrolles, Vasco Esteves, Joao Fonseca, Roth Gab...

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Tom Wesselman, After Matisse - artetcinemas.over-blog.com

Exhibition until May 29 2023, 164 Arenas of Cimiez avenue, 06364 Nice, cedex 4, daily open except Thursdays (10am - 5pm), phone : 04.93.81.08.08, ticket full price : 10€. Finding a link between Tom

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