At the end of 2015 the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco, the museum founded more than a century ago by Prince Albert I on the rock overlooking the sea, devotes an exhibition to Michel Aubéry, under the High Patronage of Prince Albert II, who attends the opening. Amalart supports the artist in promoting the exhibition: it is the first step in a relationship with the artist built over the previous months.
Aubéry, a Monegasque, has been drawing since he was nine and has always filled his works with animals. Here the theme is the sea: crabs, lobsters, octopuses and seahorses take shape in paintings dense with marks and colour, alongside sculptures in which the same creatures step out of the picture and become objects. The museum's grand hall, with its chandeliers and historic rooms, hosts the works and a video devoted to the artist.
From here a collaboration begins that in the following years will lead Amalart to work with Aubéry outside the Principality as well: in China, in Wuhan, and in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, in dialogue with a Chinese painter.
In 2017, back at the Oceanographic Museum: Monegasque turtles →
