Workshops around the exhibition "Vieira Da Silva, the eye of the labyrinth"

Name: Workshops around the exhibition "Vieira Da Silva, the eye of the labyrinth"
Start: 2022-09-17T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T16:30:00+02:00
Location: Musée Cantini

Discovery workshops around the exhibition "Vieira Da Silva, the eye of the labyrinth"

17 and 18 September 2022Passed

Conditions

Free entrance, without reservation

Affiche de l'exposition © Ville de Marseille

Around the exhibition Vieira da Silva, space dedicated to children with games made available.
EXHIBITION - "MARIA HELENA VIEIRA DA SILVA, IN THE EYE OF THE LABYRINTH" From 10 June to 6 November 2022
On the occasion of France-Portugal 2022, the Cantini Museum is organizing the first major retrospective of the internationally renowned artist of Portuguese origin Maria Helena Vieira da Silva (1908-1992). With a collection of sixty paintings, this exhibition traces the key stages of his career marked by a relentless questioning of perspective, urban transformations, architectural dynamics or the musicality of the pictorial touch.

About the location

Musée Cantini

19, rue Grignan – 13006 Marseille

Bouches-du-Rhône
Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

The Cantini Museum is housed in a mansion built in 1694 by the Compagnie du Cap Nègre. Jules Cantini, an art lover and important marbrier who took part in the construction of numerous civil and religious buildings in Marseilles during the Second Empire, became owner of the building. donated it to the city of Marseilles in 1916 so that it could become a museum devoted to modern art.
The museum presents a broad panorama of modern art, focusing on a number of historical sequences such as post-impressionism, Fauvism, Cubism as well as the various post-cubist trends of the 1920s and 1930s.
The collections cover a period extending to the end of the 1970s, covering a wide variety of aesthetic trends, and proposing some remarkable ensembles consisting of artists such as Jean Dubuffet, André Masson, Victor Brauner and Antonin Artaud, or movements sometimes little known by the general public like the Japanese group Gutaï, very active and particularly innovative in the field of abstraction and pe