Former wine cooperative cellar housing a collection of and century works by the new pictorial figuration.
Cérès Franco, Brazilian art critic and gallery owner, has chosen, with the help of the Occitanie region and her daughter Dominique Polad-Hardouin, to house her personal collection in the Aude. Thus, the former wine cooperative cellar of Montolieu, houses an extraordinary collection of 2,000 works of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries of new pictorial representation. South American popular art, art brut, naive art, singular art, artists from the CoBra movement or self-taught, the eclecticism of the works translates a demanding and independent taste for an art located on the fringe of the major artistic trends. Each year a temporary exhibition is organized with a guest curator who looks at the collection from his or her own point of view, while engaging in a dialogue with other institutions or collections. Flagship exhibitions such as "Les voleurs de feu" (The Fire Thieves) showcase marginal, visionary or singular artists alongside major figures of the art world, in the image of the art without borders that Cérès Franco has always defended. Closed for renovations from October 2022, we impatiently await its reopening scheduled for 2025.
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