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Museums of the Mediterranean

A good selection from the Nins collection is always exhibited in a subterranean exhibition complex which also houses the
storage areas. Below: A view from the sea of the museum in its spacious park with rose garden and contemporary sculptures
installations which transforms at its edges into the surrounding nature. All pictures courtesy FYBJ

The "Nins" Collection modes and disparate styles in the works of those who
preceded him becomes in a sense the expression of his
If collecting is to reunite what has been separated, then own voice and vision.
the collector is the one who by bringing together again
what has been dispersed, strives to recreate a new order His collection will reflect his personality like the work of
in the world which surrounds him. The collector’s search art whose essential merit must be its originality and as
for the object stems from his own experience, his con- defined by Zola “an area of creation perceived through
cerns, even his needs. And the key to any real collection his own temperament”. The artist must question the fu-
is the connection, (sometimes not acknowledged or even ture, investigate the present and reinterpret the past
realised at the inception) which links the chosen elements with a curious and critical mind.
and turns them into a unique entity —The Collection.
This definition could apply to this collection of portraits
The act of collecting may be a game of passion; it can of children which has been assembled by two artists over
be a neurosis or a way of denying death. If the collector more than thirty years and now definitely assigned to the
also happens to be an artist he can use the collection Foundation. The main criteria for choosing the selection
as another means of creativity. The perception, the dis- was the aesthetic response and emotions provoked by
covery of a constant element running through the many each painting rather than by the desire to assemble a

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