Publications

The Mamac, at each temporary exhibition, offers a reference book illustrating the chosen theme or a focus on an artist as part of a monograph.

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2024

Léger and the New Realism

Léger et les Nouveaux Réalismes. Les collections du MAMAC à Biot – GrandPalaisRmnÉditions, Paris, 208 p, Français, 29 cm, 39 €
Sous la direction de Julie Guttierez et Rébecca François, Ariane Coulondre, Sophie Cras, Lisa Diop
Préfaces : Didier Fusillier, président de GrandPalaisRmn, Christian Estrosi, maire de la Ville de Nice, Anne Dopffer, directrice des musées nationaux du XXe siècle des Alpes-Maritimes et Hélène Guenin, directrice du Musée d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain de Nice

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2023

Thu-Van Tran. We live in the flicker

Thu-Van Tran. We live in the flicker – Dilecta, Paris, 160 p, French, English, 27,5 cm, 32 €
Interview with Thu-Van Tran and Hélène Guenin; essays by art historian Hélène Meisel and director of the Sculpture Center in New York, Sohrab Mohebbi
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A great artist on the French scene, Thu-Van Tran now enjoys international recognition. In particular, she presented a masterful installation at the 2017 Venice International Art Biennale; while in 2018, she was among the nominees for the Marcel Duchamp Prize. She has just completed a major in-situ commission at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh (United States), as well as at the Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection in Paris.

The museum highlights her singular artistic universe, imbued with a dual Franco-Vietnamese culture; the common history of the two countries and the visible or invisible heritage still inscribed in the language, the bodies in Vietnam; the lasting transformation of landscapes and the issues raised around the living. The exhibition will interweave historical narratives and personal mythologies, existing works and new productions.

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2022

Becoming Flower

Becoming flower- Silvana Editoriale, Milano, 128 p, French, 26,5 cm, 25 €
Foreword Jean-Jacques Aillagon
Texts Estelle Zhong Mengual, Hélène Guenin and Rébecca François
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Becoming fower
At a time when ecosystems and climate breakthrough is leading us to rethink our relationship with nature and the living world, we can wonder what can we learn from flowers, from their resilience, from their constant adaptation to their environment, from their sobriety?
Through the eyes of artists, women and men of twenty different nationalities, “becoming flower” attempts to bring a new and a sensitive light on contemporary ecological, anthropological and geopolitical issues.
The book describes the forms of listening and attention that artists, since the 1960s, have maintained with plants and brings out a botany of world history.

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2022

Vita Nuova. New challenges for art in Italy 1960-1975.

Vita Nuova. Vita Nuova. Nouveaux enjeux de l’art en Italie. 1960-1975.- Les Editions Snoeck; Gand, 2022, 176 p., French, 28.5 cm, 32€
Under the direction of Valérie Da Costa, texts by Valérie Da Costa, Lara Conte, Laura Iamurri and a chronology by Sara Miele, preface by Hélène Guenin.
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A reference work, the exhibition catalog retraces the extraordinary vivacity of artistic creation in Italy between 1960 and 1975 through a selection of works by more than fifty artists who gave a glimpse of Italian society during these fifteen years.
This generation of artists envisions new ways of creating. It illustrates a form of vita nuova (“new life”) which characterizes Italian art of this period and contributes to its international recognition.

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2021

The theater of objects by Daniel Spoerri

Le théâtre des objets de Daniel Spoerri.- Milan, Silvana Editoriale, 2021, 176 pages, French, 24 x 31 cm, 30€

Authors : Hélène Guenin, Director of MAMAC ; Rébecca François, Curator of the exhibtion ; Laurence Bertrand-Dorléac, Art historian and President of the Fondation nationale des Sciences politiques ; Déborah Laks, in charge of research at CNRS ; Barbara Raderscheidt, President of Hic Terminus Haeret Foundation – Il Giardino di Daniel Spoerri.

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This book is published on the occasion of the artist’s 90th birthday, celebrated by the MAMAC of Nice around an intuitive and lively monographic exhibition highlighting the demystifying, popular and collaborative nature of his work until the organization of banquets. An object book as surprising and fascinating as the exhibition it traces.

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2020

SHE BAM POW POP WIZZ ! THE AMAZONS OF POP

Catalogue SHE-BAM POW POP WIZZ ! THE AMAZONS OF POP

She-Bam Pow POP Wizz! Les Amazones du POP.- Paris, Flammarion, 2020, 160 pages, 170 illustrations, French, 24 x 31 cm, 35 €

Authors: Hélène Guenin, Géraldine Gourbe, Mathilde De Croix, Catherine Macchi, Sid Sachs and Didier Semin.
With the contribution of Clothilde Morette, Juliette Pollet, Noah Stolz, Marine Shütz.
In collaboration with AWARE –Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions.

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She-Bam Pow POP Wizz! Les Amazones du POP traces the open story of a generation of European and North American women who boldly and flamboyantly contributed to international pop. Their works, like comic books, are bursting with rainbow and vibrant colors. Through multiple avenues, they envision a different world, with dream shapes, and bet on building a better world. Love is all we need!

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2019

Lars Fredrikson

Lars Fredrikson

Lars Fredrikson – Mousse Publishing; Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, 2019
Book direction: Cristiano Raimondi/Floriane Spinetta; Hélène Guenin/Rébecca François, Prefaces H.R.H. The Princess of Hanover, Christian Estrosi, texts Marie-Claude Beaud/Hélène Guenin, Rébecca François, Eva Fabbris, Michael Doser, Jonas (J) Magnusson, Eléonore Bak, Léa Dreyer, 288 p., ill. 27 cm. 978-2-9560210-6-3
MAMAC: 16 November 2019-22 March 2020
Language: Bilingual French-English
30 euros

Lars Fredrikson’s work has been rediscovered over the last ten years without any major event having been organized to date.
Tireless researcher and skilled craftsman, Lars Fredrikson invents a sensitive and singular universe nourished by poetry, plastic experiments and the technologies of his time. A quest connects these practices: to make perceptible energy, telluric, sidereal or interior flows normally invisible.
The exhibition organised at MAMAC and the catalogue produced by the NMNM – Nouveau Musée National de Monaco constitute the first moment of a retrospective and global look at the work. The catalogue, accompanied by a CD, is the very first published reference work on the artist.

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2019

Devil in the Flesh

Le diable au corps – Paris, In Fine éditions d’Art, 2019
Prefaces Christian Estrosi, Jean-Jacques Aillagon;
Direction : Hélène Guenin and Pauline Mari, Arnauld Pierre, Bertrand Tillier, Thomas Schlesser, 144 p., ill.
ISBN 978902302055
Language: French
MAMAC: 17 May-29 September 2019
28 euros

« Le Diable au corps » plunges the reader into the heart of a passionate story between two arts, punctuated by persiflages and misunderstandings, reciprocal sublimations, pop or baroque births, collaborations or plagiarism.

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