Sensual, free, provocative and determined, Brigitte Bardot represents woman in all her splendor; the symbol of femininity in the film “Et Dieu créa la femme”, painted by Andy Warhol and numerous other artists, the chosen celebrity for the famous Marianne bust. Bardot is adulated the world over.From June 23rd to October 31st, the world famous artist will be the centre of all attention on the occasion of the exhibition which is entirely devoted to her at the Espace Rendez-Vous des Lices.Bardot cannot be separated from Saint-Tropez, she has always remained an idyll.
Saint-Tropez Town and the Tourist Board in collaboration with Akouna Production are paying a tribute to her.
An immersive exhibition
The exhibition is in three parts, based on a chronological itinerary, plunging the visitor into the heart of Brigitte Bardot’s tumultuous life, accompanied by the actress’s voice (songs, extracts from sound tracks…).
A succession of thematic alcoves, each bearing the title of a film, a song or a TV show, retraces BB’s life, from her childhood to her involvement in animal welfare, her universe, Saint-Tropez, her love affairs, her career comprised of around 50 films and more than 80 songs.
The Bardot eternity displays the formidable source of inspiration for the world’s photographers and artists and pays homage to her legendary and shining beauty.
Documents from archives, objects once in her possession, and culcult items baring witness to her influence on society, all contributing to an intense and amusing exhibition, illustrated by product and furniture design, interior architecture, within France and abroad.
B.B. is, without a shadow of a doubt, a dream queen. She fascinates us once again.
Every day :
From 11h00 to 20h00
+ nocturns July and August until 23h00
Tickets at the Tourist Office
Quai Jean Jaurès
Entry fee: 11€, Reduced fee: 8€
Children under 10 years free
Nocturns, private evenings and guided visits available.
Information from abroad:+33(0)4 94 97 45 21
The medias speak of the Brigitte Bardot exhibitions in Saint-Tropez and in Boulogne Billancourt (Paris). Click on “Learn more” to see the reports.
Saint-Tropez Town in collaboration with Monaco's Malborough gallery is proud to present four of artist Fernando Botero's giant sculptures. A unique opportunity to discover the Columbian artist's fascinating universe founded on art's history and his personal experience.
Fernando Botero was born in 1932 at Medellin in Columbia. At the age of 20, he was admitted to the San Fernando Academy in Madrid. During the fifties, he studied at the San Marco Academy in Florence and discovered the italian renaissance. In 1960, he settled in New York where he was awarded the International Guggenheim Prize for Columbia. His first rtrospective took place in 1970 in Germany. From 1973, his sculpture work appears as a logical extension to his search for plasticity. The mumental and the sensual are more evident in his work. Inspired by mythological and classical subjects such as The Taking Away of Europe, Maternity, Reclining Woman. His energy-filled sculptures surprise us by the quality of their execution, the bronze nice and shiny and perfectly smooth, and also by their sheer size. Since then, Botero has exhibited in museums the world over. In 1992, he was given the opportunity to exhibit his sculptures in Monte Carlo's gardens. The same year, his sculptures were shown on the Champs Elysées in Paris; he was the first artist to be invited to exhibit there. In 1993, a major exhibition was held on Park Avenue in New York. His work is part of public collections present in several famous museums of the world.
Today, Botero lives and works in Paris, New York, Monte Carlo and Pietrasanta.
The Annonciade museum invites you this summer to discover the artistic universe of Italian painter and sculptor Amadeo Modigliani. Adulated by the public, Modigliani remains one of the most sought-after artists by collectors and the world’s major museums. He died at the very early age of 36 years and his works are rare. The Annonciade Museum, headed by Jean-Paul Monery, meets the challenge by presenting items which display the different facets of Modigliani’s work.
The exhibition also concentrates on the rare collection of drawings highlighting one of Modigliani’s most essential aspects, his brilliant graphical work , as talented as Matisse’s and Picasso’s and often under-rated.
Physically too weak, he is condemned to abandoning sculpting and to trying other styles before reaching a dark and sad form of expressionism.
His art was atypical at the time, based on the Italian references but also impressionist, fauvist, cubist and primitive art. The works presented allow one to grasp all the passages and adaptations leading to a unique style set beyond the world and daily customs.
This exhibition allows one to discover a truly exceptional painter, who strives to reach the interior of the beings portrayed in each of his works, and not an artist who just follows on, living on alcohol, drugs and love. The exhibition’s catalogue shows that Modigliani’s preoccupations were identical to those of all artists of the epoch’s Parisian avant-garde.
