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The Arts Intel Report

Inner Island

Peter Doig, 100 Years Ago, 2001.

May 10 – Nov 5, 2023
Piste de la Courtade Île de Porquerolles, 83400 Hyères, France

“I hate museums,” the French entrepreneur Édouard Carmignac said in 2018. “I want a living foundation.” Back in the 1980s, when Carmignac was invited to a wedding on the Île de Porquerolles, he found just the sort of spot that could be home to the modern art he was beginning to collect. The Villa Carmignac and its surrounding sculpture park, designed by Louis Benech, opened to the public in 2018. Since then, the Fondation has held annual exhibitions in the summer, the first two drawn from its permanent collection. In this show, 50 international artists, including Peter Doig, Anna-Eva Bergman, Ali Cherri, and Auguste Rodin, are brought together to explore the idea of the inner island in psychology. Alien figures, whether hybrid or supernatural, will populate the villa. The blue hues in some of the multimedia works should complement the Mediterranean backdrop swimmingly. —Elena Clavarino

Photo: Peter Doig. All Rights Reserved, DACS / Adagp, Paris, 2023. © Centre Pompidou, MNAM- CCI, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais /Audrey Laurans