Vertigo (French version)

Echoing the dizzying experience of the Mediterranean sun, mistral wind, waves and sea spray, but also the immensity of the sky and the depths of the sea on the island of Porquerolles, the Vertigo exhibition explores in a new way the links between the perception of natural phenomena and abstraction since the 1950s.

The works of some sixty artists - ranging from abstract expressionist paintings, colourfield abstraction and action painting to monochromatic works, mobiles and installations - express a refusal to use figuration in their transcription of the invisible forces of nature, favouring the appearance and disappearance of forms through colour and optical effects. Far from a simple reference to Alfred Hitchcock's film, the exhibition takes a broader look at the dizzying sensations induced by the exalted experience of nature, between disorientation, floating and dazzlement. The exhibition is divided into six sections, which are organised and scrolled thematically in the catalogue, and which represent the visual registers associated with landscape: the aquatic, the cosmogonic, the aerial, the infinite, the terrestrial and the abyssal. With its oscillating mobiles, interplay of light and shadow, and large-scale panoramic paintings, the exhibition is an invitation to vertigo: Vibrations of colour in works by Yves Klein, James Turrell and Jesús Rafael Soto, cosmic journeys by Olafur Eliasson, Anna-Eva Bergman and Hans Hartung, dissolution in the murky environments of Helen Frankenthaler, Gerhard Richter, Frank Bowling and Flora Moscovici, optical games by Ann Veronica Janssens and Carlos Cruz-Diez, celestial infinities by Otto Piene and Caroline Corbasson.

With texts by Matthieu Poirier, Nina Léger and an interview between Ann Veronica Janssens and Riccardo Venturi.