LARS FREDRIKSON16TH NOVEMBER 2019

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Every day except on Monday from 11 a.m. to 6.p.m. from 01/11 to 30/04

(Close 25th December, 1st January, East Sunday and 1st May)

Place Yves Klein – Nice / +33 (0)4 97 13 42 01www.mamac-nice.org

Individual prices: 10€Access to all the museums during 24hrs

7 days ticket: 20€Access to all the museums during 7 daysGroup ticket (10 to 30 pers.): 8€ Access to all the museums

during 24hrsFree entry and Nice Museum’s pass: see conditions on our

website

THE GUIDED TOURIndividual price: 6€ (free for children under 13).

> Each saturday at 3.p.m. in French, at 4.p.m. in English. For individuals. No reservation!

> Truancy visits on Sunday at 11am: 17th of November with Hélène Guenin and Rébecca François, curators of the ex-

hibition; 1st of December with Gaël Fredrikson, the younger son of the artist and President of Lars Fredrikson Estate;

and an unpublished visit in March (date to be confi rmed). Mandatory reservation: mediationmamac@ville-nice.fr

THE WORKSHOPSIndividual price: 8€. From 6 years old.

Mandatory reservation: mediationmamac@ville-nice.fr> From 6 years old: The MômArt KIDS

On Wednesday, 3pm-4.30pm: 27th of November, 18th of December, 15th, 22th and 29th of January, 12th and 19th of

February, 11th and 18th of March.On Saturday, 11am-12.30pm: 16th and 30th of November, 7th

and 14th of December, 11th, 18th and 25th of January, 1st, 8th and 22th of February, 7th, 14th and 21th of March.

Holiday’s stages, 3pm-4.30pm: 24th, 26th and 27th of De-cember and 25th, 26th, 27th and 28th of February.

> From 12 years old: The MômArt TEENS28th December and 29th February, 11am-12.30pm.

THE STORY TELLER MOMENTIndividual price: 6€. From 3 years old.

Mandatory reservation: mediationmamac@ville-nice.frwith Camille Chrétien from the « illustrated workshops » on

21th and 22th of December from 2.30pm to 3.30pm and in February (date to be confi rmed).

THE EVENTSIndividual price: 6€ (free for children under 13).

Mandatory reservation: mediationmamac@ville-nice.fr> Workshops with Isabelle Sordage, artist who has been

exploring since 1987 in her work the implications of a plastic shaping of sound.

20th November and 11th December from 2pm to 3pm, 21th December and 15th February from 3.30pm to 4.30pm.

3th December, as part of the World Disability Day,Event carried out in partnership with the Mission Handicap

of the City of Nice and the BMVR.Reservations can be made with the disability mission of

the City of Nice.> Listening sessions with Ludovic Lignon, visual artist and

former student of Lars Fredrikson.Rusting, de-fi ltering our ears by listening to unusual things, the challenge of these sessions is the curiosity of listening. 14th December, 15th January and 12th February from 3pm

to 4.30pm

Free and free admission without reservation> 13th December, #RemixTaCulture, 19pm-00pm

The Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art and the University of the French Riviera invite students to ima-gine original mediations inspired by the artworks of the

museum’s collection and a selection of Lars Fredrikson’s pieces of art, during a nocturne that reveals the singular and sensitive gaze of a generation. The evening will end with a

Crossover concert.

Find out our dates, events, workshops and partners on our website www.mamac-nice.org !

MUSÉE D’ART MODERNE ET D’ART CONTEMPORAINREBUS

In order to recreate these sound experiments, Lars Fredrikson used special tools. Find one of them by solving this rebus. Beware, the answer is in french, but very close to the english word !

THAT’S THE END OF THE EXHIBITION!

The last part of the exhibition is entirely white. Nothing is hung on the wall, and yet there is an artwork! Could you describe it? Try to imagine where the sound you hear can come from:

• The sound of a cat licking its paws• The sound of a carpet being rubbed with your hands

• The sound of a brush on a support• The sound of a sponge on a wall

SOUND WORKS

Lars Fredrikson was challenged by the fact that the human ear only perceives frequencies between 20 Hertz and 20,000 Hertz. Beyond this range, the human ear no longer hears sounds. This ability decreases with age: as we get older, we may no longer hear some sounds. There are lower (infrasound) and higher (ultrasound) frequencies!

Lars Fredrikson thus integrates sounds that are not heard into his conception of listening, generating sensations and vibrations that are understood with the whole body. Some animals can feel these ultrasounds. Find out which animal can perceive them by linking the following points.

Answer: a bat! She communicates with her fellow human beings through ultrasound.

Lars Fredrikson drew inspiration for some of his works from body rhythms, such as blood circulation or heartbeat.

Answer:Oscillator. An oscillator is a machine that mechanically reproduces sounds.

COLLAGES

Look closely at Lars Fredrikson’s collages. He has cut visuals from magazines that he reworks by collage, like other artists in the MAMAC collections, such as Robert Rauschenberg, Jacques Villeglé or Mimmo Rotella. The images he has selected are often linked to current events of this time. Check the themes you see in these works:

The war The female body Childhood The animals

The rockets The nature

The actress Marilyn Monroe The food

The love The weather forecast

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FAX

Since 1974, the artist has been using a machine that became the modern telecommunications tool at the end of the 1980s: the fax, the ancestor of the Internet! This electronic device that converts the image into electrical impulses will become a real drawing machine for him. The artist uses his radio antenna to pick up frequencies and transcribe images as well as maps and meteorological data into a «drawing».Thanks to his radio, Lars Fredrikson received this message in Morse code, can you help him decrypt it?

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Answers:War, the female body, childhood, Marilyn Monroe

Answer:« The image prevent us to see » from Lars Fredrikson, interview with Maurice Benhamou, in Lars Fredrikson, Préoccupations magazine, galerie L’Ollave, Lyon, 1998

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Answer:The sound of a brush on a support

The works of the artist Lars Fredrikson make us feel and live new experiences. What emotions or sensations did you feel?

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LUMINOKINETIC ARTWORKS

Lars Fredrikson is an artist who has been interested in the composition and decomposition of matter. He was fascinated by the «elementary particles» which are the smallest elements we know: they are located inside the nucleus of atoms, which are the elements that make up matter. Imagine how small it must be! They measure: 0.00000000000000000000000001 m. An ant measures about 0.6cm. An ant is therefore 60000000000000000000 times larger than an elementary particle.It’s up to you. Draw and classify these elements from the largest to the smallest, placing them on the next staircase:• The Moon• The Eiffel tower• A giraffe• The Earth• A human being• A TV• A cicada• An ant• The Sun• A book

Lars Fredrikson is an artist who has been working since the 1960s on virtual spaces and the represen-tation of time. He appeals to our senses through his works that take the shape of experiences. It offers works that mobilize our entire body. Lars Fredrikson studied chemistry and electronics, he is fasci-nated by the scientifi c advances and new technologies of his time but also by poetry.As a genius handyman, he even makes his own machines!

You may be surprised by some artworks that may not look like what you imagine. Are you ready to discover his world?

Moreover, this exhibition is monographic, which means that all the works you will discover are created by one and the same artist. In this exhibition, be careful and fi nd the following themes:

human being

DYNAMIC STRUCTURES

In his works called «Dynamic Structures», Lars Fredrikson uses mechanisms that he creates himself, close to watchmaking and that draw points and lines on the canvas. In this way, the movement is visually represented. Fredrikson gives us a new experience, because we are not used to seeing time represented in this way!

Lars Fredrikson, Structure dynamique, 1968-1969

Photo Lars Fredrikson Archives Lars Fredrikson Estate /

Courtesy galerie In situ fabienne leclec, Paris © Lars Fredrikson Estate

• The sound• The light

• The invisible• The «new» technologies

• The movement• The refl ections

• Collage artwork• Painting• The book• Engraving

• Poetry

WHAT IS AN ARTWORK ?

A SCULPTURE? A PAINTING? A HIJACKED TV? AN ENGRAVING?SOUND? A COLLAGE? LIGHT BOXES? PHOTOGRAPHS?

Answer: The Sun > The Moon > The Earth > The Eiffel Tower > A giraffe > A human being > A TV > A book > A cicada > An ant

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INOXS

Lars Fredrikson seeks to give the viewer an experience of space and time. To do this, he bends, engraves, hammers, incises stainless steel plates. When we stand in front of it, our refl ection is partially distorted and we can never see ourselves in full.Here are different distorting mirrors, look at their curves and shapes. Imagine and draw on each mirror your distorted refl ection.

Did you know?Lars Fredrikson was born in 1926 in Stockholm and died in 1997 in France. He is a Swedish artist who has been teaching at Villa Arson, the National Superior School of Art in Nice since 1971. He created the fi rst workshop of sound and electro-acoustic and visual research. Before that, Lars Fredrikson worked in a Swedish Army research laboratory in 1945 and then in the Merchant Navy a few years later. Thus, he travels to South America, New Zealand, and does several round-the-world trips.

4CROSSWORD PUZZLE

Lars Fredrikson’s works use many keywords, some of them quite complicated. Fill in the boxes below using the following defi nitions to fi nd these words:

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1/ What you can’t see with the naked eye.2/ Used to pick up waves and transmit them all over the world. Can only be heard.3/ Allows you to watch moving images, at the beginning in black and white.4/ Opposes to reality. For example, what happens on the Internet or in video games.5/ What concerns the universe, the planets.6/ Internet ancestor. Used to transmit paper information.7/ In physics, its unit is the Hertz. Something that happens repeatedly.8/ A small element that constitutes an element, a material.9/ Used to capture and direct waves. Is on the roof of a car, for example.10/ Study of techniques, tools and machines.11/ Type of metal very strong and malleable.

Answer: Invisible 2. Radio. 3. Tele. 4. Virtual 5. Cosmic 6. Fax 7. Frequence 8. Particle 9. Antenna 10. Technology 11. Inox