After Monet

works of the Frac des Pays de la Loire collection

Martine Aballéa, Jean-Michel Alberola, Lisa Beck, Karina Bisch, Jean-Luc Blanc, Patrick Caillière, Anne Deleporte, Simona Denicolai & Ivo Provoost, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Spencer Finch, Hreinn Fridfinnsson, Bernard Frize, Ion Grigorescu, Christian Hidaka, Ann Veronica Jansens, Jean-Claude Latil, Ange Leccia, Sherrie Levine, Lorriot & Melia, Robert Malaval, François Morellet, Julien Nédélec, Bruno Peinado, Emmanuel Pereire, Claude Rutault, Jean-Michel Sanejouand, Davor Sanvincenti, Sarkis, Ernesto Sartori, David de Tscharner

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How are the issues specific to painting, in particular the relationship to light and color, re-examined by artists today?

After Monet is a participatory exhibition project on the initiative of the MAT – Contemporary Art Center of the Pays d’Ancenis, in partnership with the Frac des Pays de la Loire. Two works were chosen as the starting point for the project: Spencer Finch, I am try to paint air (after Claude Monet) and Ann Veronica Janssens, Orange, Sea blue.

Accompanied by the MAT and Frac teams, a group of volunteers from the municipalities of Ancenis and Montrelais are invited to become curators of a double exhibition of works from the Frac collection: setting up an exhibition, choosing works from collecting, thinking about their relationship to space, addressing issues relating to mediation, communication, etc.

About Spencer Finch

The work of Spencer Finch attempts to translate the impression left by natural phenomena, our sensory experience of nature: a luminous intensity, the quality of a wind, the veil of a fog gradually canceling the tops of a mountain. Forest. In his installations, Spencer Finch tries to give back with a lot of poetry, the memory of a fortuitous perception of nature, which he keeps in memory.

The sculpture I am trying to paint the air (after Claude Monet) presents a set of 7 elements composed of several bulbs, each of them representing the molecular structure of a specific pigment. These pigments were those used by the impressionist painter Claude Monet to paint the air and the sky in his paintings: cobalt blue, cobalt violet, cerulean blue, manganese violet, ultramarine blue, virid green, cadmium yellow. Finch’s work gave the title of the exhibition.

About Ann-Veronica Janssens

Ann Veronica Janssens is one of those artists who retains the principles of Minimal Art as it developed in the mid-sixties in the United States and England. She calls for simple and geometric shapes, as well as industrial materials. His works often consist of light interventions that change our experience of a space, an object or light. For Orange, Blue Sea, the artist uses light projectors. The gradations are obtained simply through filters diffracting the light beams. The resulting “painting” sends us back to a sensitive, dreamlike field.