Visionary Designs
6 September to 15 November
Polaris Metropolitan Art Centre in Istres

Opening on Saturday 6 September at 11.30am
with a performance by Guillaume Bath, 'Bottling a Sculpture' 

Group exhibition bringing together more than fifty artists as part of the 2025 Drawing Season.

Through this exhibition, the Polaris Art Centre and the Musée de l'Invisible offer you a new approach to the art of drawing, favouring a more sensory, energetic and emotional experience. The project brings together artists from different generations who revisit the concept of visionary drawing. Their approach opens up new perspectives on artistic practice, exploring in particular how art can create links between our inner and outer worlds.

Visionary drawing embodies a little-known dimension of art: that of creative energy. Often considered the primary and ultimate expression of a work, visionary drawing expresses its quintessence. It fascinates when it crystallises the magic of artistic impulse and its mysteries. It is often linked to an artistic destiny that is difficult to escape, when art becomes a vital necessity. But visionary drawing is rarely explored in such depth. What is a vision? How does it come about and why, or how can it be transcribed? How do we use and interpret it today through our culture of images, imagination and art?

In response to these questions, Dess(t)ins visionnaires will explore the phenomenon of visionary drawing through a unique experimental exhibition, combining contemporary art, art brut and primitive art.

Co-curated by Catherine Soria Baccelli and Pascal Pique (Musée de l'Invisible)

with: Art Orienté Objet - Beverly Baker - Guillaume Barth - Laurent Bes - Stéphane Besnard - Bernard Blancan - Julius Bockelt - Tiphaine Calmettes - Charley Case - Philippe Deloison - Fernand Desmoulin - Aurélie Dubois - Isabelle Dubset - Youssef El Yedidi - Coralie Emilion-Languille - Farnood Esbati - Jean-Luc Favero - Elisa Fouquet - Magde Gill - Carlos Augusto Giraldo - Rodolphe Hammadi - Xie Hong - Theo Hudson Nangala - Zdenek Kocek - Arthur Lambert - Anne Laroche - Jean-Luc Leguay & Julie Lô - Anaïs Lelièvre - Alain-Jacques Lévrier-Mussat - Sandra Lorenzi - Raphaël Lonné - Myriam Méchita - Carole Melmoux - Anika Mi - Dan Miller - Paul Nabulo Namarinjmak - Momoko Nakagawa - Danièle Orcier - Isabelle Peru - Lubos Plny - Olivier Raud - Etienne Renzo - Clivia Ripöll - Peggy Rockham Napaljarri - Dave Ross Pwerle - Yuichi Saito - Lilly Sandover Kngwarreye - Leon Spencer Japaljarri- Niek Van De Steeg - Harald Stoffers - Eli Tanna - Tjumpo Tjapanangka - Warlimpirrngna Tjapaltjarri - Sandra Valabregue - Sarrah White Napurrurla - Samantha Wilson Napurrurla - Henriette Zéphyr.

Polaris Art Centre
Aix-Marseille-Provence Metropolis
Forum des Carmes
Place Patricia Tranchand, 13800 Istres
From 6 September to 15 November 2025
Tuesday to Saturday from 9am to 7pm 
And Sundays and public holidays from 2pm to 7pm