After four years of work, the Museum of Contemporary Art (Mac) of Marseille will reopen its doors Friday, with the desire to illustrate the policy of "culture for all" displayed by the left-wing municipality of the second city of France.
The Mac's collection, presented as one of the three most important in the province, along with Saint-Etienne and Grenoble, includes works by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Gabriel Orozco, Niki de Saint Phalle, Annette Messager, Robert Rauschenberg, Richard Baquié, Daniel Buren and Yves Klein, not to mention of course those of César, the "pope" of Marseille artists.
A five-million-euro renovation
It consists of works from the collections of the city's Cantini Museum and loans or deposits from other institutions: National Museum of Modern Art, National Center for Plastic Arts, Regional Fund for Contemporary Art...
The renovation project, worth a total of some five million euros, nearly three-quarters of which is financed by the Bouches-du-Rhône department, consisted in particular of an in-depth redevelopment of the exhibition spaces - 2,500 m2 in total - to double the number of works permanently presented, up to 130 now, notes director Thierry Ollat.
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