Monaco Art Week Brings Together Galleries and Auction Houses for The Fifth Edition
This year from the 4th to the 9th of July, Monaco Art Week, placed under the High Patronage of H.S.H. Prince Albert II of Monaco, celebrates its 5th edition.
The Monaco Art Week launched in Spring 2018, aiming to promote and enhance the artistic offer of the Principality at the initiative of the Jonckheere Gallery and Moretti Fine Art, driven by a collaboration with the artmonte-carlo fair.
The event is running along with the artmonte-carlo international fair held on the 8th and 9th of July and also matches with the opening of the major summer exhibition «Monet in Full Light» at the Grimaldi Forum, which celebrates the 140th anniversary of the artist’s first visit to the French Riviera, and will close at the time of the «F(ê)aites de la danse,» to be marked with the 24 hours of performance (8 and 9 July) by the Ballets de Monte-Carlo at the Place du Casino.
During Monaco Art Week 2023, 16 participants are presented from the districts of Monte-Carlo and Larvotto: Artcurial; Boghossian; Christie’s; G&M Design; Hauser & Wirth; HOFA; Kamil Art Gallery; Lebreton; Elisabeth Lillo-Renner; M.-F. Toninelli Art Moderne; Opera Gallery; Galerie AdrianoRibolzi; Sotheby’s; Teos Gallery Monte-Carlo; Wannenes Art Contact; and Ward Moretti at MorettiFine Art. Monaco Art Week is supported by the Monaco Department of Cultural Affairs and is sponsored by CMB Monaco and SMT Société Monégasque de Transports.
The Monaco Art Week brings together galleries and auction houses for the occasion around exhibitions and cultural events. The program designed various modern art, contemporary art, and high jewelry creations. Galleries and auction houses are joining forces to invite the public – collectors, professionals, and art lovers – to come together to follow a Monaco Art Week art tour through the Principality. The tour starts with a new participant, the gallery Lebreton, offering a selection of works by artists who worked on the French Riviera in the second half of the 20th century, including ceramics, sculptures, and prints by Pablo Picasso, Suzanne Ramié – Madoura, Roger Capron, Jean Derval and Jean Cocteau, among others. At the Park Palace, Ward Moretti, in collaboration with Moretti Fine Art, presents an exceptional selection of Impressionist works by great masters such as Pierre Bonnard, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro, and Édouard Vuillard. On Boulevard des Moulins, Artcurial presents for the first time a private Monegasque collection of the most emblematic pieces of transalpine design, including historic design pieces represented by top architects and designers such as Gio Ponti, Gino Sarfatti, Fausto Melotti, Gabriella Crespi and the Campana brothers. Artcurial extends into the heart of Monte-Carlo Société des Bains de Mer, and the 4th edition of the Monaco Sculptures sale will be celebrated. This event brings together a selection of iconic sculptures from the 20th and 21st centuries, including works by François-Xavier Lalanne, Balthasar Labo, Wang Keping, Arman, César, Philippe Hiquily, and Allen Jones.
Hauser & Wirth presents a sensitive and little-known aspect of John Chamberlain’s work produced at Black Mountain College in the 1950s, combining sculpture and poems at One-Monte-Carlo. Following the success of the private-selling Lalanne exhibition last year, Sotheby’s Monaco presents a selection of works on paper by Marc Chagall through a solo exhibition that highlights the artist’s last three decades in the South of France. Several exhibitions are to be held in the Palais de la Scala. The debutant HOFA gallery invites Irish artist Mary Ronayne to take over the Yellow Korner Monte Carlo space. Her brightly coloured paintings celebrate comedy, wit, and fun, celebrating the fluidity of time, identity, and life.
A prestigious selection of modern and old masters with its major exhibition of the year: the Monaco Masters Show highlights the Opera Gallery, where works by Marc Chagall, Fernand Léger, Pablo Picasso, Yayoi Kusama, Fernando Botero or Manolo Valdès, amongst others, are presented. Only by appointment, M.-F. Toninelli Art Moderne offers an incomparable collection of rare sculptures by Jean Arp, Constantin Brancusi, Giorgio De Chirico, Jean Ipousteguy, Asger Jorn, Jacques Lipchitz, Giacomo Manzú, and Marino Marini. Elisabeth Lillo-Rennerunveils, who also makes her debut at the event, shows unique pieces in collaboration with Martin Spreng and Margherita Burgener with a selection of jewels that pay homage to nature, where coloured titanium meets precious stones. Adriano Ribolzi Gallery presents Jane Gemayel’s latest creations, including the series inspired by the work of Rodin. She explores the sculptor’s lines to tell a new story that highlights women and sensuality. The world-renowned Hôtel de Paris hosts the Boghossian‘s latest jewelry collection evoking the tranquil waters and clear skies of a blue summer. The collection includes an array of stunning stones, selected for their unique colour, texture and quality, meticulously set using innovative techniques. With its unrivaled location at the prestigious Fairmont Monte Carlo, under a brand-new name, Teos Gallery Monte-Carlopresents a solo exhibition by the German artist-photographer Axel Crieger, whose photo montages are inspired by celebrities and the luxury goods industry. Kamil Art Gallery presents for the first time in Monaco the artist Olga Sinclair, pioneer of Panamanian abstract expressionist painting, with a solo exhibition unveiling her most recent works in the Larvotto district. A project in collaboration with the Embassy of Panama and the AMLA Association for the diffusion and promotion of Latin American culture. And close to it, G & M Design Gallery presents portraits by the world-renowned photographer David Bailey. The selection includes not only his most iconic celebrity portraits but also a unique insight into his paintings.