Hartung Bergman Foundation

Created in 1994, the Hartung-Bergman Foundation was born of the lives and wishes of two of the most important painters of modern art: Hans Hartung (1904 - 1989) and Anna-Eva Bergman (1909 - 1987).
In the 1960s, the two artists acquired a two-hectare olive grove in the hills above Antibes, where they built their villa and studios.

Exhibition: The voices of their works, Bergman, Hartung and the critics

This exhibition brings together pictorial creation and its free perception. Anna-Eva Bergman and Hans Hartung are not only major twentieth-century artists: their output - mineral beauty in the case of the former, calculated lyricism in the case of the latter - is inseparable from the discourses that have accompanied, supported and sometimes influenced it. Around them gravitates a network of authors and friendships, well identified like Pierre Cabanne or Pierre Daix, more discreet but decisive like Madeleine Rousseau. Their eyes and voices build an exegesis, guide interpretation, open up fields of meaning and inscribe forms in a history of ideas. At the same time, this exhibition invites us to rediscover actors in the art world who have often been overlooked, in particular women critics such as Dominique Aubier, whose contribution has been essential. Between archives, texts and paintings, this is a sensitive experience where seeing and reading are part of a hybrid and jubilant attention.