EXHIBITION : Max Ernst

Hôtel de Caumont-Centre d’art – Aix-en-Provence

From May4 to October 8, 2023.

OPEN TICKET-  Visit Between 10am to 7pm

© Tate-Adagp - Collection Nahmad - Courtesy of Christie's, Adagp Paris, 2023

The Hôtel de Caumont-Centre d’art presents the work of the artist Max Ernst.

This year, the Hôtel de Caumont-Centre d’Art devotes its summer exhibition to the genius of Max Ernst (1891–1976). A learned and prodigious experimental artist, Max Ernst lived through the century of avant-garde movements with an insatiable thirst for creation and left behind a complex and highly personal oeuvre. An artist associated with the Dada group and surrealism, he followed a personal path by distancing himself from the group’s style and produced visionary works imbued with lucidity. The exhibition presents 120 works that retrace the career of this ingenious artist—who was a free and unique personality—and highlight, in particular, his close links with nature, games, magic, and freedom.

Max Ernst never stopped reinventing his art throughout his career. His work is nourished by philosophy, psychoanalysis, science, alchemy, art history, literature and poetry.