musée d'art moderne et d'art contemporain de Nice

The Musée d'art moderne et d'art contemporain (Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art), also known as MAMAC, is a museum dedicated to modern art and contemporary art. It opened on 21 June 1990, in Nice, France. Location The Museum is located near the Place Garibaldi. It was designed by two architects, Yves Bayard and Henri Vidal, and is shaped as a tetrapod arch straddling the course of the Paillon . The monumentality of the project developed to cross the Paillon allows connection through a terrace, called the Promenade des Arts, from the Museum to the Theater. With its square plan, the architecture of the building is inspired by neo-classicism rules. The available area is approximately 4,500 m2, distributed over ten showrooms. The facades are covered with smooth white Carrara marble. The. Collections The collections present an overview of the artistic creations considered as avant-garde, from the late 1950s to today, which belong to different movements: The European New Realists with Arman , Yves Klein , and Martial Raysse , alongside César Baldaccini , Christo , Niki de Saint Phalle , Mimmo Rotella , François Dufrêne , Jean Tinguely , Gérard Deschamps , Daniel Spoerri , Raymond Hains , and Jacques Villeglé American Pop art is represented by a collection of works by Roy Lichtenstein , Robert Indiana , Andy Warhol , James Rosenquist , Claes Oldenburg.