A summer at Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc

Exhibition 2024

Summertime's creative potential on our privileged perch of Cap d'Antibes is brought to life through this year's diverse and colourful outdoor art exhibition, in collaboration with Mennour, aptly titled Un Eté à l'Hôtel du Cap-Eden-Roc. Sculptural works and installations by a prestigious line-up of contemporary artists from across the globe have been placed in carefully chosen locations around the hotel grounds, from the entrance to the Grande Allée, creating a unique dialogue with each environment and further enhancing its sense of place.

This year's featured artists include Alicja Kwade, Daniel Buren, Lee Ufan, Bertrand Lavier, and Ugo Rondinone.

Ugo Rondinone

About the artist

Recently exhibited at Fosun Foundation in Shanghai, MAH in Geneva, Petit Palais in Paris, Auckland Art Gallery, Kunsthalle Helsinki, Guild Hall in New York, the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, Fundación Casa Wabi in Mexico, and Tate Liverpool, Ugo Rondinone is recognized as one of the major voices of his generation, an artist who composes searing meditations on nature and the human condition while establishing an organic formal vocabulary that fuses a variety of sculptural and painterly traditions.

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The Sound + The Mighty

the sound + the mighty belongs to the iconic series known as the “stone figures”, which he first produced for Human Nature, a 2013 site-specific project at Rockefeller Center. To create these statues, he has large slabs of stone extracted and cut before assembling and stacking them to form anthropomorphic compositions.

Daniel Buren

About the artist

Born in 1938 in Boulogne-Billancourt, Daniel Buren lives and works in situ.

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Tonnelle, travail situé

Endlessly evolving in time with the hours of the day and the variations in light, the work Tonnelle, travail situé, combines three of the artist’s "materials of choice" – color, transparency and the sky – and releases a host of nuances and colored projections onto its immediate surroundings, adding an enriching experience to the hotel grounds. 

Lee Ufan

About the artist

Lee Ufan's work has been exhibited at such prestigious institutions as the Guggenheim Museum in New York, Dia Beacon in New York State, the Château de Versailles, and the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul. He is internationally renowned as the founding artist and theoretician of Mono-Ha ("School of Things"). The artists of this Japanese movement, which emerged in the late 1960s, advocate "using something without adding anything to it".

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RELATUM - THE CANE OF TITAN

Relatum - The Cane of Titan is a long steel rod resting on a large stone, an abstract assemblage repurposed for each new installation, with variations in balance and proportion depending on the site. The artwork is presented as a haiku setting up a dialogue between nature and culture.

Alicja Kwade

About the artist

Alicja Kwade's work explores and challenges universally accepted notions of space, time, science and philosophy, breaking down frames of perception. Her work has been shown in numerous solo, group and biennial exhibitions in museums and institutions around the world, including the Hamburger Bahnhof in Germany, Place Vendôme in Paris, the Venice Biennale and the Metropolitan Museum in New York.

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Big Be-Hide

Big Be-Hide stands majestically in the gardens of the Hotel Cap-Eden-Roc, extending and multiplying the views of the surrounding lavish natural landscape. Like a game of hide and seek, the immersive sculpture confronts a granite stone with a cast aluminum replica, placed on either side of a two-faced mirror.

Bertrand Lavier

About the artist

Since the late 1960s, Bertrand Lavier's work has constantly subverted the traditional categories of artistic classification. Exploring the relationships between painting and sculpture, representation and abstraction, life and art, one of his fundamental principles is precisely that he does not want to be a prisoner of any aesthetic. His work has been exhibited in such eminent museums as the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the State Hermitage Museum. In 2012, the Centre Georges Pompidou paid tribute to him with a retrospective exhibition.

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Walt Disney Productions 1947-2019 n°2

At the top of the Grande Allée, Bertrand Lavier's imposing yellow silhouette

Walt Disney Productions 1947-2019 n°2 is part of a “worksite” initiated by the artist in 1984. Its playful, abstract form derives from a comic strip published in Le Journal de Mickey, recounting the adventures of Minnie and Mickey in an art museum.