Martial Raysse News - Drawings at Galerie AB Agnès Aittouares, sculptures in Vallauris at the Ceramics Museum

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Throughout summer 2026, the Magnelli Museum, Ceramics Museum, in Vallauris, is dedicating an exhibition to Martial Raysse, entitled My Heart Pierced by an Arrow – Sculptures by Martial Raysse. Through this event, it invites the widest possible audience to delve into the unique world, between the trivial and the sublime, between mythology and pop culture, of the great French artist, born in Golfe-Juan in 1936. He returns here to his childhood home, revealing a more private aspect of his work: his sculptural creations, through a collection of recent pieces that, with his characteristic whimsy, play with scale and evoke a flood of emotions.

Son of ceramic artisans from Vallauris, Martial Raysse has, since the 1960s, established himself as one of the most unique and free figures in French contemporary art. A painter, sculptor, filmmaker, and poet, he chose the image – painted or sculpted – as a universal language. While Raysse is primarily recognized for his painting, he strongly asserts: "I am also a sculptor. Quite profoundly a sculptor." The exhibition dedicated to him by the Magnelli Museum, Ceramics Museum, thus aims to highlight this lesser-known facet through his recent sculptures (21st century).

From the most modest assemblages to monumental statues, this exhibition aims to reveal the full visual poetry and questioning power of this artist here, in Vallauris, the city where he was born.

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https://www.vallauris-golfe-juan.fr/agenda/38667/18963-d-une-fleche-mon-coeur-perce-statues-de-martial-raysse.htm

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