VERTIGO
Apr 26 — Nov 2, 2025
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Fondation Carmignac, Hyères, France
The Fondation Carmignac presents the exhibition 'Vertigo', curated by Matthieu Poirier, at the Villa Carmignac on the island of Porquerolles off the coast of Hyères from 26 April to 2 November 2025.
Echoing the dizzying experience of the Mediterranean sun, mistral wind, waves and sea spray, as well as 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.
'VERTIGO', from the Latin vertere - to turn or transform - here refers to the blurred perception of a visual field in motion, whether in nature or in a painting.
Far from a simple reference to Alfred Hitchcock's film, the exhibition takes a broader look at the dizzying sensations induced by the exhilarating experience of nature, between disorientation, floating and dazzlement. The exhibition is divided into five sections, each representing a different visual register associated with the landscape: aquatic, cosmogonic, aerial, infinite and terrestrial.
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 troubled 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.
Bringing together some fifty works on loan from museums, institutions and private individuals, as well as from the Carmignac collection and productions made specifically for the exhibition, “VERTIGO” brings together artists who have freed themselves from figuration, appearances and images to better question our relationship with the sensory world.
Beyond the image, what are we left with of the natural landscape, if not the vivid impression of its phenomena?
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