Antibes' Musée Picasso is hosting Voiles, découpes, traverses, an exhibition by French artist Michel Verjux that runs through September 27, using light itself as the medium rather than paint, stone or bronze.
Verjux, active for forty years, draws on philosopher Karl Popper's "projector theory" to illuminate the spaces he works within, treating light the way a sculptor treats stone or wood. The exhibition takes advantage of renovation works currently underway on the museum's ground floor, which are reconfiguring access to the terrace and circulation areas. In response, the museum invited Verjux to intervene on the first floor, the terrace and the patio, using his lighting installations to let visitors see the building's architecture, and its Mediterranean setting, differently.
The show's title reflects Verjux's recurring interests, according to the museum: what is veiled and unveiled, hidden and shown, what appears, fails to appear or disappears, alongside the shapes and structures that cut through both the building's interior and the wider urban and maritime landscape outside. The exhibition runs alongside the museum's ordinary collection of Picasso's work from his 1946 stay at the Château Grimaldi.