Expedition to Le Muy

Domaine du Muy

As we ventured across the Gulf of Saint Tropez aboard Genius, we soon arrived at the Domaine du Muy, a sculpture park conceived by Jean-Gabriel Mitterrand and his son Edward. Dedicated to monumental works, it is located in a wild landscape between the Maures and Esterel massifs. The park hosts various sculptures by contemporary artists and regularly features new works, blending art with its natural surroundings.

This summer, the Domaine worked with Esther Schipper gallery to present major sculptures by Martin Boyce, Angela Bulloch, Ann Veronica Janssens, and Julia Scher. Highlights include Bulloch's modular Heavy Metal Stack sculptures, Boyce's Warm Dry Stone and Palm Leaves steel forms, Janssens' Blue Glass Roll cylinder, and Scher's marble owl sculptures.

Fondation Bernar Venet

We continued across the small town of Le Muy to meet Bernar Venet and his wife Diane at their Foundation. Established in 2014, the Venet Foundation is the result of over 50 years of artistic creation by the artist. Located on a 5-hectare site, the Foundation features a mix of ancient, industrial, and contemporary architecture, including a sculpture park, a chapel by Frank Stella, a Skyspace by James Turrell, and installations by Larry Bell and Donald Judd.

 On view this summer was Stefan Brüggemann's exhibition, blending graffiti, minimalism, and conceptualism to offer a radical vision of contemporary art. The Mexican artist transformed the Foundation's spaces into a living sculpture, with spray-painted words invading windows, walls, and glass ceilings, reversing the typical exhibition perspective. Stainless steel doors, positioned like totems, inviting us as viewers to explore unknown worlds, reflecting personal dreams and fantasies.