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.

From Peter Doig to Anna-Eva Bergman, from Ali Cherri to Auguste Rodin, the exhibition
proposes to confront visitors with these different worlds floating outside of known geographies and temporalities. The exhibition will feature archipelagos, as with Agnieszka Kurant’s installation sculpted by termites, under the water ceiling of the Villa Carmignac. Strange presences, human, animal, hybrid or supernatural, will populate the place, thanks to paintings by Andrew Cranston and Verne Dawson, as well as the sculptures by Francis Uprichard and Corentin Grossmann in the gardens. We will have to surrender ourselves : vertigo and tipping points await us in the either solar or crepuscular universes of Harold
Ancart, Marcella Barceló, Tursic & Mille and Christine Safa.

Although the exhibition gives rise to a fictional, mental and abstract island, we are frequently reminded of the real Mediterranean island thanks to works which were created on
Porquerolles more than a century ago (Jean-Francis Auburtin, Henri-Edmond Cross), a few years ago (Bernard Pesce, Bernard Plossu) or a few weeks before the opening (Darren Almond
and Jennifer Douzenel). The island’s energy, its suspended temporality and its fragility, produces these dialogues with works whose poetry is contagious, inviting us to change scales
and ask ourselves about the creative gesture and its current scope.

The Inner Island is an exhibition designed by Jean-Marie Gallais, art historian and curator. Since May 2022, he has been a curator at the Pinault Collection. He has been a curator at the
Pinault Collection. He was formerly the head of programming at the Centre Pompidou-Metz, where he curated the exhibitions Peindre la nuit (2018-2019), Lee Ufan. Habiter le temps (2019), Folklore (2020), and Ecrire, c’est dessiner (2021).

THE ARTISTS (non-definitive list)

With the permanent artworks:

Miquel Barceló, Huma Bhabha, Olaf Breuning, Jean Denant, Tom Friedman, Jeppe Hein, Wang Keping, Cornelia Konrads, Gonzalo Lebrija, Tony Matelli, Janaina Mello Landini, Bruce Nauman, Jaume Plensa, Michel Redolfi, Ugo Rondinone, Ed Ruscha, Tom Sachs, Nil Udo et Vhils.

Informations pratiques

Ouvert du mardi au dimanche du 29 avril au 05 novembre 2023
Fermé le lundi

HORAIRES
Avril, mai, juin : 10h - 18h (dernière entrée 16h/16h30)
Juillet et août : 10h - 19h (dernière entrée 17h/17h30) + nocturne jusqu'à 22h les jeudis (dernière entrée 20h/20h30)
Septembre et novembre : 10h - 18h (dernière entrée 16h/16h30)

ACCÈS
La Villa Carmignac est située sur l'île de Porquerolles (Var).
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TARIFS
Tarif plein : 15 €
Tarif réduit : 11 € *
Tarif jeune : 6 € **
Gratuité sous conditions ***

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*Sur présentation d'un justificatif : demandeurs d’emploi et bénéficiaires des minima sociaux, personnes en situation de handicap, artistes (Maison des artistes et AGESSA), enseignants.
Tarif réduit avec la visite du Fort Sainte-Agathe, Fort du Pradeau, Musée de la Banque et du site Olbia.
** 12–26 ans
*** Enfants jusqu’à 11 ans (inclus), habitants de Porquerolles (sur inscription auprès de reservation@villacarmignac.com), carte de presse et carte ICOM.