La Fondazione Carmignac, costituita nel venticinque anni fa su iniziativa di Édouard Carmignac, accoglie il pubblico a Porquerolles, nella foresta mediterranea in mezzo al mare. Nel cuore di uno straordinario parco nazionale, i visitatori avranno l’opportunità di ammirare le opere d’arte contemporanea della collezione Carmignac, inoltre assistere a mostre temporanee e fruire di un ricco programma culturale. Villa Carmignac è circondata da un giardino che ospita numerose sculture, infatti, artisti provenienti da tutto il mondo sono stati selezionati allo scopo di creare opere d’arte ispirate al luogo. Ogni anno, la Fondazione Carmignac da luogo a un’importante mostra dedicata all’arte contemporanea. Quest’anno, dal 26 aprile al 2 novembre 2025 presenta Vertigo, evento curato da Matthieu Poirier. Allestita nella splendida cornice di Villa Carmignac, Vertigo riecheggia l’esperienza del sole mediterraneo, del sospiro del maestrale, degli spruzzi del mare e della potenza tellurica prorompente dalla profondità della terra. Essa risuona con la vastità del cielo e le profondità pelagiche che circondano l’isola di Porquerolles.
VERTIGO, VILLA CARMIGNAC, PORQUEROLLES ISLAND
26 April – 2 November 2025, Villa Carmignac, Porquerolles Island: the Fondation Carmignac, created in 2000 on the initiative of Édouard Carmignac, welcomes the public to Porquerolles, a Mediterranean forest in the middle of the sea. In the midst of an exceptional national park, visitors discover contemporary works of art from the Carmignac collection, temporary exhibitions, and a very rich cultural program. The Villa Carmignac is also surrounded by a garden inhabited by some fifteen sculptures : artists from all over the world had been selected to create artworks especially inspired by the place. Each year, the Fondation Carmignac presents an important exhibition dedicated to contemporary art. From April 26 to November 2, 2025, the Fondation Carmignac presents the exhibition VERTIGO, curated by Matthieu Poirier, at the Villa Carmignac. Within this setting, 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.
Installation view of Vertigo exhibition at Villa Carmignac
Section 1, Troubles flottements
© Fondation Carmignac / Thibaut Chapotot
LANDSCAPE, WATER, COSMOGONY, INFINITY AND LAND
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. With its slowly moving mobiles, interplays of shadow and light and large-format panoramic paintings, the exhibition is an invitation to plunge into the vertigo of the gaze. It includes the colour vibrations in the works of Yves Klein, James Turrell and Jesús-Rafael Soto, the cosmic voyages in the works of Olafur Eliasson, Anna-Eva Bergman and Hans Hartung, dissolution in the disturbing environments of Helen Frankenthaler, Gerhard Richter, Frank Bowling and Flora Moscovici, the optical phenomena of Ann Veronica Janssens and Carlos Cruz-Diez, and the infinite skies of Otto Piene and Caroline Corbasson. By bringing together around fifty works from museums, institutions and private collections, as well as from the Carmignac Collection, together with works created specifically for the exhibition, Vertigo features artists who broke free of figuration, appearance and pictures the better to question our relationship to the perceptible world. Above and beyond the image, what remains for us of the natural landscape if not the vivid impression of its phenomena?
ABOUT THE FONDATION CARMIGNAC
The Fondation Carmignac was created in 2000 by Edouard Carmignac, entrepreneur and president of the Carmignac Gestion company. Today it has three focal points which were developed successively: the Carmignac Collection, the Carmignac Photojournalism Award and the Villa Carmignac at Porquerolles.
Installation view of Vertigo exhibition at Villa Carmignac
Section 5 , Visions telluriques
© Fondation Carmignac / Thibaut Chapotot
THE COLLECTION CARMIGNAC
The Foundation is rooted in the collection. Assembled over the years without prejudice or constraint, the Carmignac Collection offers a unique overview of contemporary creation, also bearing the imprint of Edouard Carmignac’s personal favourites. Today it features more than 300 works, most of which are from the 20th and 21st centuries, including major works by Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Gerhard Richter and Martial Raysse, as well as a wide range of works by young artists and artists from emerging countries. The Foundation is committed to conserving and sharing this collection.
THE VILLA CARMIGNAC AT PORQUEROLLES
Since 2018, the Fondation Carmignac has been developing a cultural programme of events in a space that is open to the public, the Villa Carmignac. An art centre with 2,000 m² of exhibition space and 15 hectares of gardens, the Villa welcomes visitors to a protected site on the Île de Porquerolles. Each year it mounts a temporary exhibition, organises cultural and artistic actions, and displays permanent works created especially for the site. Conceived to be in symbiosis with the natural setting, the Villa Carmignac is enriched by, and merges with, the surrounding elements to offer a unique visitor experience.
INFO
Vertigo exhibition
26 April – 2 November 2025
Fondation Carmignac
Villa Carmignac, Piste de la Courtade
Île de Porquerolles
83400 Hyères
France
