At the Couvent des Jacobins, the Pinault Collection, the City of Rennes and Rennes Métropole are renewing their collaboration with a new exhibition of works from the collection assembled over the last fifty years by François Pinault.
From 10 June to 10 September 2023.
Through more than 80 emblematic works, some of which have never before been exhibited by the Pinault Collection, “Forever Sixties” sheds light on a decisive moment in the history of contemporary art, the visual revolution of the 1960s, and its enduring legacy in the creative work of the following decades. What were the Sixties all about? Liberation, repression, appropriation? Under Anglo-American influence, this decade was characterised by an unprecedented demographic and economic boom, the emergence of a consumer society and the beginning of the space conquest. Marked by ideological conflicts, the Cold War and the wars of decolonisation, the violent apogee of the civil rights movement and sexual liberation, the Swinging Sixties – repressive years as Richard Hamilton calls them, playing on the words ‘swinging’ and ‘swinging’ – were also a field of tensions between conservatism and democratisation, dominant culture and alternative counter-cultures, mercantilist conformism and dreams of escape.
As a nod to the superb exhibition organised by Helène Guenin at the Mamac in Nice in 2020, “Les Amazones du Pop”, the second chapter of the exhibition is devoted to three Amazons of Pop, the Austrian Kiki Kogelnik, the French Niki de St Phalle and a focus on the Belgian Evelyne Axell, whose seven works use a range of techniques, from drawing on paper to oil on canvas, from enamel on Plexiglas to translucent Clartex.
Curated by Emma Lavigne, General Director of the Collection Pinault, and Tristan Bera, Research Fellow.
Couvent des Jacobins
20 place Sainte-Anne
F-35000 RENNES
