The Great Laboratory of the South

L’Art contemporain et la Côte d’Azur: this title might be somewhat perplexing, were it not embellished by a subtitle: un territoire pour l’expérimentation 1951-2011, which, as if by surprise, shifts the initially dreaded tourist angle. What do we have here? We have a hybrid object. Not a real catalogue, even though it is generously illustrated and published in tandem with a series of exhibitions organized at the Villa Arson (Nice), the Château de Villeneuve/Fondation Emile Hugues (Vence), the..