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VERTIGO

Apr 26 — Nov 2, 2025 | Villa Carmignac, Île de Porquerolles, France

The Fondation Carmignac presents the exhibition 'VERTIGO', from April 26 to November 2,  2025, curated by Matthieu Poirier, at the Villa Carmignac on the island of Porquerolles, off the coast of Hyères.

'VERTIGO' echoes the dizzying experience of the Mediterranean sun, the sigh of the mistral, the spray of the sea, the telluric power deep within the earth. It resonates with the vastness of the sky and pelagic depths surrounding the island of Porquerolles, applying a brand-new lens to the connections between the perception of natural phenomena and abstract art post-1950. VERTIGO, from the Latin vertere, to turn or transform, here refers to the blurred perception of a shifting visual field when our sensory compass spins wildly within the infinite, roiling space of nature or a work of art.

Far from being a simple reference to Alfred Hitchcock’s film, the exhibition offers a sweeping overview of the vertiginous sensations created by the exalted experience of nature, between disorientation, floating and wonder. It is organised into five sections, each devoted to a visual register connected with landscape – water, cosmogony, air, infinity and land.

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