Nice, France.- The Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art ( MAMAC ) of the City of Nice is pleased to present a new exhibition at the Gallery Ponchettes, a selection from its collection on the theme of “Figuration Free of the Figure”. The exhibition is on view through January 15th 2012. Figuration was the main motivation of many artists in the 1980s. Artists including Jean-Michel Alberola , Jean-Charles Blais , Rémi Blanchard , François Boisrond , Robert Combas and Hervé Di Rosa , addressed topics related to comics, graffiti and street slogans, in an ironic and deliberately naive fashion. This exhibition present works by these artists as well as Denis Castellas, Luciano Castelli, Keith Haring , Antonio Recalcati, Gerald Thupinier and Vladimir Velickovic , all exploring the theme of the figure in the collections of MAMAC.