The exhibition brings together 129 works by 56 modern and contemporary artists inspired by the light and color of Mediterranean landscapes. The exhibition is a reminder of the extent to which a trip to the Midi is a founding ritual in the career of any young painter. Many of them travelled to the South of France to rediscover the serenity, the warm atmosphere, the intensity of light and the typical architecture of roof terraces and overhanging views, opening onto the sparkling blue of the sky and sea.

Through this perpetual journey to this "lost paradise", artists today still seem to be in search of a creative impulse and a hedonistic quest. Some have chosen abstraction to retranscribe these moments of fascination and contemplation, while others have perpetuated the figurative tradition by reintegrating work on the motif.