Discover a work by Chu Teh-Chun – the exhibition Vertigo, at the Villa Carmignac, Porquerolles island, from April 26 to November 2, 2025

The Fondation Carmignac presents the exhibition VERTIGO, from April 26 to November 2, 2025, curated by Matthieu Poirier, at the Villa Carmignac on the island of Porquerolles, off the coast of Hyères.

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, applying a brand-new lens to the connections between the perception of natural phenomena and abstract art post-1950. VERTIGO, from the Latin vertere, to turn or transform, here refers to the blurred perception of a shifting visual field when our sensory compass spins wildly within the infinite, roiling space of nature or a work of art.

Far from being a simple reference to AlfredHitchcock’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.

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.

An opportunity to discover a large-format work by Chu Teh-Chun: “Mémoire du regard” – oil on canvas (1989), which has been rarely exhibited until now.

Above and beyond the image, what remains for us of the natural landscape if not the vivid impression of its phenomena?

For more information about the exhibition: villacarmignac.com

Image 1: Mémoire du regard – Oil on canvas – 1989

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Image 2: Vertigo Exhibition Poster – Villa Carmignac