I Believe in Miracles

10 years at the Collection Lambert

December 12, 2010 – May 8, 2011

The Collection Lambert en Avignon has come a long way since it opened in 2000. Successive exhibitions have earned it widespread recognition at regional and national level in France as well as on the international scene. Over the past ten years, the museum has played host to a large number of artists of different ages and nationalities, many of whom are close friends of Yvon Lambert and have created unique, magical, enduring works specially for the museum.

More than just a review of the past decade, “Je crois aux miracles” reminds us of the outstanding talent of artists invited to take part in landmark themed exhibitions such as “Artists’ Collections” (2001), “A fripon, fripon & demi” (2003) and “Figures de l’acteur” (2006), as well as those invited to hold their first major shows in France: Andres Serrano, Candice Breitz, Francis Alÿs, Christian Marclay, not to mention grand masters such as Cy Twombly, Sol LeWitt, Miquel Barceló and Douglas Gordon.

Building up a subtle portrait of the collector himself, this exhibition takes the form of a real and imaginary journey suffused with images that reflect the key themes of a collection that began in the 1960s with three pioneering art movements, minimalism, conceptualism and land art, and continues today with over 400 new works, including some acquired or donated very recently.

The artists

Pierre-Marie Agin, Antoine+Manuel, Azzedine Alaïa, Francis Alÿs, Carlos Amorales, Alice Anderson, David Askevold, Miquel Barceló, Robert Barry, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Jean-Charles Blais, Bill Beckler, Gilles Bensimon, Joseph Beuys, Christian Boltanski, Louise Bourgeois, Slater Bradley, Candice Breitz, Marcel Broodthaers, Daniel Buren, Andre Cadere, Julia Margaret Cameron, Mircea Cantor, Etienne Carjat, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paul Cézanne, Christo, Robert Combas, François-Xavier Courrèges, Salvador Dali, Daniel Dezeuze, Delvaux, Jan Dibbets, Jason Dodge, Marcel Dzama, Bernard Faucon, Dan Flavin, Spencer Finch, Gisele Freund, Hamish Fulton, Ryan Gander, Vincent Ganivet, Anna Gaskell, Gilbert & George, Nan Goldin, Douglas Gordon, Loris Gréaud, Shilpa Gupta, Raoul Hausmann, Isabell Heimerdinger, Garry Hill, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Douglas Huebler, Koo Jeong A, Burn Jones, Donald Judd, Idris Kahn, On Kawara, Zilvinas Kempinas, Anselm Kiefer, Jannis Kounellis, Joseph Kosuth, Joey Kotting, Barbara Kruger, David Lamelas, Bertrand Lavier, Louise Lawler, Zoe Leonard, Claude Lévêque, Sol LeWitt, Ogle Winston Link, Richard Long, Robert Mangold, Édouard Manet, Christian Marclay, Brice Marden, Agnes Martin, Henri Matisse, Adam McEwen, Jonas Mekas, Jonathan Monk, Vik Muniz, Rei Naito, Rika Noguchi, Dennis Oppenheim, Giulio Paolini, Giuseppe Penone, Pablo Picasso, Jean Prouvé, Man Ray, Odilon Redon, Kay Rosen, Robert Ryman, Julian Schnabel, Richard Serra, David Shrigley, Andres Serrano, Edward J. Steichen, Kimsooja, Daniel Spoerri, Haim Steinbach, Catherine Sullivan, Niele Toroni, Stephan Toth, Richard Tuttle, Cy Twombly, Salla Tykkä, Nick van Woert, Francesco Vezzoli, Mark Wallinger, Lawrence Weiner