Hockney, Matisse. Paradise Found.

As part of the Nice Arts Biennale, the Matisse Museum in Nice presents a unique dialogue between David Hockney and Henri Matisse, based on the British artist's new series of Fresh Flowers - never before shown to the public. Indeed, his drawings on graphic palettes echo Matisse's approach, which always sought to capture, beyond the purely visual aspect, the vegetal principle of the plant: its flowering.
Beyond this, the text by Claudine Grammont, director of the Matisse Museum in Nice, seeks to show how these two giants of the 20th and 21st centuries tell the story of modernity by appropriating the same codes, the same signs, and resonate in their research and formal concerns.