Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain: Vivid Memories
This year the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain celebrates 30 years, of a history written hand in hand with artists, with an exhibition titled Vivid Memories.
On October 20, 1984 Cartier launched the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain. With its pioneering, visionary approach to patronage, the Fondation Cartier invented a new approach to exhibition making, multi-disciplinary in nature and characterized by a spirit of curiosity and inquiry. Over the course of its 30-year engagement with artists, the Fondation Cartier has hosted over 100 exhibitions.
The exhibition Vivid Memories focuses on the works that the Fondation has collected since 1984; a living collection that is further enhanced by commissioned exhibits and that is the sign of close bonds with the artists. The exhibition brings together artists from a diverse range of disciplines including an installation of ‘shadow sculptures’by Issey Miyake which emphasises the Fondation’s openness to the world of design and fashion; visitors are given access to major film works such as The Ballad of Sexual Dependency by Nan Goldin; and In Bed, one of three works by Ron Mueck that belong to the Fondation.
Vivid Memories is on display until Sunday 21 September 2014 at the Foundation in Paris, France. From October 2014, the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain will undergo a transformation under the direction of architects Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio.
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