VOENA at Art Monte-Carlo 2026
Giorgio Morandi, Paesaggio (Landscape), 1962
VOENA will then return to Art Monte-Carlo 2026 from 29 April to 1 May 2026 with a major gallery presentation centred on the theme of nature and its enduring transformation through artistic vision. At the heart of the booth will be an outstanding painting by Nicolas Poussin, Apollo and Daphne (1625-26), executed shortly after the artist’s arrival in Rome, at a pivotal moment in the formation of his classical vision.
Presented in conjunction with the concurrent exhibition at the Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, Le Sentiment de la Nature: Contemporary Art in the Mirror of Poussin, this important early work is a pendant to The Death of Eurydice, currently on view at the Villa Paloma.
Around it, the presentation brings together works that extend this meditation on nature across centuries and media: Damien Hirst’s monumental butterfly triptych Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue (2000), reflecting on the ephemeral nature of life and beauty; Kristy Chan’s Small talk about the weather (2022), with its frenetic brushwork and contemporary response to the persistence of nature in everyday life; Philippe Pastor’s Bleu Monochrome series (2012-25), made with natural pigments and canvases exposed to the elements, allowing nature itself to intervene in the creative process; Yves Klein’s RP2: Grenoble (1961), a sculptural monochrome mapping the topography of Grenoble through his signature International Klein Blue; and Daniel Ambrosi’s Stourhead Temple (2023), an ambient-lit dye-sub fabric print that reimagines landscape through immersive digital vision. Together with a work on paper by Pablo Picasso, the booth proposes a rich and layered dialogue between art and the natural world, linking classical landscape, environmental sensitivity, abstraction, and contemporary image-making
Presented in conjunction with the concurrent exhibition at the Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, Le Sentiment de la Nature: Contemporary Art in the Mirror of Poussin, this important early work is a pendant to The Death of Eurydice, currently on view at the Villa Paloma.
Around it, the presentation brings together works that extend this meditation on nature across centuries and media: Damien Hirst’s monumental butterfly triptych Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue (2000), reflecting on the ephemeral nature of life and beauty; Kristy Chan’s Small talk about the weather (2022), with its frenetic brushwork and contemporary response to the persistence of nature in everyday life; Philippe Pastor’s Bleu Monochrome series (2012-25), made with natural pigments and canvases exposed to the elements, allowing nature itself to intervene in the creative process; Yves Klein’s RP2: Grenoble (1961), a sculptural monochrome mapping the topography of Grenoble through his signature International Klein Blue; and Daniel Ambrosi’s Stourhead Temple (2023), an ambient-lit dye-sub fabric print that reimagines landscape through immersive digital vision. Together with a work on paper by Pablo Picasso, the booth proposes a rich and layered dialogue between art and the natural world, linking classical landscape, environmental sensitivity, abstraction, and contemporary image-making
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