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EXHIBITION
6 IMAGES FOR PRESS USE
7 EXHIBITIONS OF THE ARTIST
8 PUBLICATION
9 THE NOMADIC NIGHTS
THE NIGHTS OF UNCERTAINTY
10 ACTIVITIES FOR CHILDREN
11 INTERNET
12 UPCOMING EXHIBITION
13 INFORMATION
14 MEDIA PARTNERS
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EXHIBITION
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rom March 14 to June 21, 2015,
the Fondation Cartier pour l’art
contemporain is honored to present
the first major exhibition of American artist
Bruce Nauman in Paris in over 15 years.
For the event, the artist has selected a series
of recent works, presented for the first time
in France, alongside some of his more iconic
installations. The ensemble represents
a large range of the diverse media he
has explored throughout his career and
reflects the particular attention that
Bruce Nauman brings to the environment
directly surrounding his artworks, and
to the physical and sensory involvement
of the spectator. The immersive works on
display resonate with the building of
the Fondation Cartier and emphasize the
contrast between the transparent exhibition
spaces on the ground floor, and the
enclosed spaces of the lower level.
Bruce Nauman is the author of a body of
work that is said to be a cornerstone of
contemporary visual vocabulary through
his exploration of the body, language, and
performance, making him one of the most
influential artists of his generation. Often
described as conceptual or minimalist, his
protean œuvre defies categorization.
Born in 1941 in Fort Wayne (Indiana),
Bruce Nauman studied physics and
mathematics at the University of Wisconsin,
before obtaining a Master of Fine Arts at
the University of California in 1966. He
quickly abandoned painting for sculpture,
performance, installation, and video art.
He initially established a studio in
California but moved to New Mexico in the
late-1970s, where he continues to live and
work today. He exhibited work in a gallery
for the first time in 1966 in Los Angeles,
then two years later at the Leo Castelli
Gallery in New York. The Los Angeles
County Museum of Art and the Whitney
Museum of American Art in New York
co-organized the first major exhibition
of the artist’s work in 1972—73.
Since then, his work has been the subject
of numerous exhibitions and retrospectives
in prestigious art institutions all over the
world, notably at the musée d’Art moderne
de la Ville de Paris, Whitechapel Gallery
in London and the Kunsthalle in Basel
(1986—87). In 1993, the Hirshhorn Museum
in Washington organized a retrospective
with the Walker Art Center
Played on an enormous LED screen, the
images seem to float in the transparent
space. With Pencil Lift/Mr. Rogers, the artist
continues his exploration of physical actions
and in particular, of hand gestures. Playing
on sensations of tension and equilibrium,
the pencil experiment performed by the
artist is an attempt at transcribing an
optical illusion easily performed with
one’s fingers. Bruce Nauman’s studio is the
theater of this artistic action — indeed, the
artist’s cat Mr. Rogers even walks across
the frame — and is an integral part of the
creative process, as was the case with his
first installations in the 1960s. With this
image, the artists focuses attention to the
space between things and seems to suggest
that illusion is part of reality, thereby
revealing parts of the world that are usually
neglected by our sight.
(Minneapolis) and the Museum of Modern
Art in New York, which was subsequently
exhibited in Madrid, Los Angeles, and
Zurich (1993—95). A few years later, the
Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Wolfsburg
Kunstmuseum, the Hayward Gallery
in London, and the Nykytaiteen Museo
Kiasma in Helsinki, co-organized an
exhibition of Bruce Nauman’s films, neons,
and installation art (1997—98). Invited in
2004 to design a project for the Turbine
Bruce Nauman, Some Illusions, 2013
Kravis Collection
Hall of the Tate Modern in London,
Courtesy Sperone Westwater, New York
Bruce Nauman created the vast sound
sculpture Raw Materials. More recently, he
represented the United States at the Venice
Biennale in 2009 and was awarded the
Golden Lion for Best National Participation.
Sperone Westwater in New York held its
first Bruce Nauman exhibition in 1976 and
has been regularly showing his work ever
since.
The selection of
multimedia
installations, sound
pieces, and sculptures
exhibited at the
Fondation Cartier
illustrates the protean
nature of Bruce
Nauman’s artistic
practice.
The selection of multimedia installations,
sound pieces, and sculptures exhibited at
the Fondation Cartier illustrates the protean
nature of Bruce Nauman’s artistic practice.
On the ground floor level, Bruce Nauman
plays with the transparency of the building
and the visual continuity of the interior and
exterior spaces.
The large exhibition room houses
Pencil Lift/Mr. Rogers (2013), one of
Bruce Nauman’s more recent works.
Two conceptually linked sound works are
installed: one in the small room and the
other in a sheltered space of the garden.
A few years ago, Bruce Nauman discovered
a sheet music by Béla Bartók entitled
For Children, a series of piano pieces written
for children and adapted to the size of their
hands. This work resonates with a number
of the artist’s pieces, which bring into play
notions of learning and pedagogy, while
also referring to his meticulous exploration
of the hand as a creative tool of the artist.
In the small room, two voices repeat over
and over the words “for children” and “pour
les enfants.” Despite the apparent simplicity
of its means, the sound piece For Children /
Pour les enfants (2015) reveals itself to be of
an unexpected complexity, wherein references
to the notions of play and education, control
and discipline merge. Adapted by the artist
for the exhibition, the work is presented for
the first time in French and English.
In the garden, the sound piece For Beginners
(Instructed Piano) (2010) invites visitors
to discover a recording of the artist and
musician Terry Allen on the piano. The
score consists of a series of instructions by
Bruce Nauman regarding the positioning
of the pianist’s hands on the keyboard.
The musician carries out these instructions
without shifting his hands, which are
positioned at middle C level (the center
of the keyboard).
Carousel (Stainless Steel Version), 1988
The work on paper For Children /
For Beginners (2009) offers an insight into
Bruce Nauman’s creative process. Here,
one discovers on paper, the artist’s ideas
and questions related to the development
of these two sound pieces.
On the lower level, three art works with
a striking physical presence fill the
exhibition with new visual perspectives.
Shown for the first time on the occasion
of the Dislocations exhibition, organized by
Robert Storr at MoMA (New York) in 1991,
the video installation Anthro/Socio (Rinde
Facing Camera) (1991) is positioned directly
in front of visitors as they enter the space.
Rinde Eckert, an artist-performer trained
as a classical singer, repeats loudly three
series of words on six monitors and three
screens: “Feed Me/Eat Me/Anthropology,”
“Help Me/Hurt Me/Sociology,” and “Feed
me, Help me, Eat me, Hurt me.” The work
can evoke different states of frustration and
anxiety inherent to the human condition:
moral uncertainty, dependency, violence,
sexual tension, etc. As is often the case in
Bruce Nauman’s work, here through the
addition of the terms “anthropology” and
“sociology,” the performer’s intimate appeals
acquire a collective dimension, seeming to
offer an ontology of human relationships.
Opposite Rinde Eckert’s face, is the
sculpture Carousel (Stainless Steel Version)
(1988), whirling round a selection of animal
forms — bear, deer, lynx, and coyotes —,
which are dismembered and suspended
from the neck. Using taxidermy molds
as ready-mades, they are transformed by
the artist’s hand into macabre sculptures.
The grating mechanism and the noise of
the animals as they scrape the floor fill the
space with a sinister and nagging sound.
The artist creates a dichotomy between the
title and the installation, which is closer to
a slaughterhouse than to a merry-go-round.
By way of conclusion, the last room of the
exhibition houses the video installation
Untitled 1970/2009, originally created
for the Tokyo Biennale in 1970, and
subsequently reactivated for Bruce
Anthro/Socio (Rinde Facing Camera) (detail), 1991 Nauman’s participation in the 2009 Venice
Biennale. A profound meditation on the
passing of time, this work is composed of
a double projection of the same image: two
dancers stretched out on an exercise pad
twirl clockwise until they reach a point of
exhaustion. The artist chose professional
dancers with the objective of obtaining
precise gestures and controlled movements.
Their intertwined hands are the exact
center point of the work. The field of action
thus geometrically defined reminds us of
some of the artist’s earlier works in which
he mapped his own studio through his
movements. The work is created from a
protocol defined by the artist, who was
intentionally absent during filming.
This exhibition, specially created for
the Fondation Cartier, offers a unique
opportunity to discover some of
Bruce Nauman’s more remarkable works
from the past two decades. It also reveals
the rarely examined link between his more
abstract pieces — videos and sound pieces
focusing on an exploration of the human
body and voice — and the monumental
installations that are charged with spiritual
and environmental references.
Curator of the exhibition
Hervé Chandès
Associate Curators
Grazia Quaroni, Thomas Delamarre
assisted by Margaux Bonopera
Exhibition Production
Justine Aurian
Camille Chenet
Installation Coordinator
Christophe Morizot
Registrar
Corinne Bocquet and Alanna Minta-Jordan
assisted by Paola Sisterna
Installation
Gilles Gioan
Audiovisual Design
Gérard Chiron
Lighting
Gerald Karlikow (design)
and Victor Burel (installation)
Sperone Westwater, New York
Angela Westwater, Alex Schneider
Studio Bruce Nauman
Juliet Myers, Bruce Hamilton, Susanna Carlisle
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IMAGES FOR PRESS USE
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Portrait of Bruce Nauman, 2009
Photo © Jason Schmidt
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Small Carousel, 1988
Drypoint etching, satin Somerset
paper
39 × 43,8 cm
Courtesy Sperone Westwater,
New York
© Bruce Nauman / ADAGP,
Paris 2015
The Fondation Cartier has created a website
specifically for media professionals. This new
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and exhibitions of the Fondation Cartier in
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Pencil Lift/Mr. Rogers, 2013
2 HD color videos: Pencil Lift and
Mr. Rogers
3’57” and 46”, looped
Courtesy Sperone Westwater,
New York
© Bruce Nauman / ADAGP,
Paris 2015
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Large Carousel, 1988
Drypoint etching
7 × 100,3 cm
Courtesy Sperone Westwater,
New York
© Bruce Nauman / ADAGP,
Paris 2015
Anthro/Socio (Rinde Facing Camera),
1991
6 color videos played on 3 video
projectors, 6 color monitors,
12 speakers
Variable lengths between 1’30” to
3’17”, looped
Dimensions variable
© Bruce Nauman / ADAGP,
Paris 2015
Photo © Luc Boegly
5&6
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Carousel (Stainless Steel Version),
1988
Stainless steel, cast aluminum,
polyurethane foam, electric motor
213 × 549 × 549 cm
© Bruce Nauman / ADAGP,
Paris 2015
Photos © Luc Boegly
Untitled 1970/2009
Film stills
Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation,
permanent loan to the Öffentliche
Kunstsammlung Basel
© Bruce Nauman / ADAGP,
Paris 2015
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EXHIBITIONS OF THE ARTIST
Bruce Nauman is born in 1941 in Fort Wayne, Indiana
and lives in New-Mexico.
Selection
1966
Master of Arts Degree Exhibition, University
of California, Davis
Bruce Nauman, ARC, musée d’Art moderne de
la Ville de Paris, Paris; Kunsthalle Basel, Basel;
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles
Bruce Nauman: Drawings / Bruce Nauman:
Zeichnungen, 1965-1986, Museum für
Gegenwartskunst, Basel; Kunsthalle Tübingen,
Tübingen, Germany; Städtisches Kunstmuseum,
Bonn, Germany; Museum Boijmans Van
Beuningen, Rotterdam; Kunstraum München,
Munich (1987); Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe,
Germany (1987); Hamburger Kunsthalle,
Hamburg (1987); New Museum of Contemporary
Art, New York (1987); Contemporary Arts
Museum Houston, Houston (1988); Museum
of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (1988);
University Art Museum, University of California,
Berkeley (1988)
1968
Documenta IV, Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
Bruce Nauman, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
1969
When Attitudes Become Form: Works-ConceptsProcesses-Situations-Information, Kunsthalle
Bern, Bern, Switzerland; Museum Haus Lange,
Krefeld, Germany; Institute of Contemporary
Arts, London
1970
Bruce Nauman, Konrad Fischer Galerie,
Düsseldorf
Tokyo Biennale ’70: Between Man and Matter,
10th International Art Exhibition of Japan,
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo;
Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto; Aichi
Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya; Fukuoka
Prefectural Museum of Art, Fukuoka
American Drawings, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris
1987
Bruce Nauman: Video, 1965–1986, Museum of
Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
1988
Bruce Nauman, Galeries Contemporaines,
Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Georges
Pompidou, Paris
Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art,
Pittsburgh
1972
Bruce Nauman: Work from 1965 to 1972, Los
Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles;
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
(1973); Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland
(1973); Städtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf (1973);
Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The
Netherlands (1973); Palazzo Reale, Milan (1974);
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston
(1974); San Francisco Museum of Art, San
Francisco (1974)
1990
Bruce Nauman: Skulpturen und Installationen,
1985-1990, Museum für Gegenwartskunst
Basel, Basel; Städtische Galerie, Städelsches
Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
(1991); musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts,
Lausanne, Switzerland (1991)
Documenta V, Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
Dislocations, Museum of Modern Art, New York
1976
The Consummate Mask of Rock, Sperone
Westwater Fischer, New York; Ileana Sonnabend
Gallery, New York; Leo Castelli Gallery, New
York; Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles (1977)
1992
Bruce Nauman: Neons, Anthony d’Offay Gallery,
London
1977
Documenta VI, Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
1980
North, East, South, South East, Konrad Fischer
Galerie, Düsseldorf
1982
Documenta VII, Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
1985
New Work: Neons and Drawings, Donald Young
Gallery, Chicago
1986
Bruce Nauman : Œuvres sur papier, Galerie Yvon
Lambert, Paris
1991
1991 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of
American Art, New York
Bruce Nauman, Ydessa Hendeles Art Foundation,
Toronto
1993
Bruce Nauman: Retrospective, Museo Nacional
Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; Walker
Art Center, Minneapolis (1994); Museum
of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (1994);
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden,
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC (1994);
Museum of Modern Art, New York (1995);
Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich (1995)
1994
Bruce Nauman: Falls, Pratfalls and Sleights of
Hand, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York (1994);
Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London; Jean Bernier,
Athens (1995)
1997
Bruce Nauman: Image/Text, 1966-1996,
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany;
Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Georges
Pompidou, Paris; Hayward Gallery, London
(1998); Nykytaiteen museo Kiasma, Helsinki
(1998)
2002
Bruce Nauman, Mapping the Studio I (Fat
Chance John Cage), Dia Center for the Arts,
New York; Museum Ludwig, Cologne (2003)
2004
The Unilever Series: Bruce Nauman—Raw
Materials, Tate Modern, London
2006
Elusive Signs: Bruce Nauman Works with
Light, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee;
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis;
Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami;
Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington,
Seattle (2007); Musée d’art contemporain,
Montréal (2007); Australian Center for
Contemporary Art, Melbourne (2007);
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane (2008);
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San
Diego (2008)
2009
Bruce Nauman: Topological Gardens, 53.
Venice Biennale, United States Pavilion, Giardini
della Biennale; Universitá Iuav di Venezia,
Tolentini; Universitá Ca’ Foscari, Venice
2010
Bruce Nauman: Days, Museum of Modern Art,
New York
Bruce Nauman: For Children/For Beginners,
Sperone Westwater, New York
2011
Bruce Nauman: Für Kinder/Beschriebene
Kombinationen, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Berlin;
Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf (2015)
Bruce Nauman: Combinations Described
(Chicago), Donald Young Gallery, Chicago
2013
Bruce Nauman: Mindfuck, Hauser & Wirth,
London
Bruce Nauman, Göteborgs Konstmuseum,
Gothenburg, Sweden
Bruce Nauman: Some Illusions—Drawings and
Videos, Sperone Westwater, New York
2014
Bruce Nauman’s Words on Paper, Art Gallery of
Ontario, Toronto
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PUBLICATION
Designed in close collaboration with
Bruce Nauman, the catalog will present
the works through photographs of
the exhibition at the Fondation Cartier,
notes, and sketches, and will offer a
deeper understanding of Bruce Nauman’s
work through analytical texts by Joan
Simon and Robert Storr.
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Bruce Nauman
Publisher: Fondation Cartier
pour l’art contemporain, Paris
Bilingual French/English version
Hardback, 22 x 28 cm, 124 pages
70 color reproductions
Authors: Joan Simon and Robert Storr
ISBN: 978-2-86925-117-5
Price: €35
Publication date: May 2015
Distribution: Thames & Hudson
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THE NOMADIC NIGHTS
Since their creation in 1994, the Nomadic
Nights regularly invite contemporary
artists to occupy the exhibition space
and garden of the Fondation Cartier for
a night of performance.
Monday March 30th at 8 pm
Concert
Monday May 18th at 9:30 pm
Performance
The Ukulele Orchestra of Great
Britain, 30 Plucking Years
Benjamin Verdonck,
notallwhowanderarelost, in preview before
the Avignon Festival
Monday April 20th at 8 pm
Film AND concert
Monday June 1st at 8 pm
CONCERT
Blutbad Parade, Parade Bain-de-sang
Pauline Curnier Jardin, Chris Imler,
tumblers
Éliane Radigue and Laetitia Sonami,
The last of the LADY’s GLOVE
Monday April 27th at 8 pm
Performance AND confErence
Monday June 8th at 8 pm
Concert
Ellie Ga, Eureka, a lighthouse play
Béatrice Gross, L’image palimpseste
Elvis Perkins
Monday May 11th at 8 pm
MASTERCLASS AND CONCERT
Opérette et romance, Académie de l’Opéra
Comique, with the participation of Jérôme
Deschamps and Serge Bagdassarian of the
Comédie-Française
THE NIGHTS OF UNCERTAINTY
The Nights of Uncertainty bring
together artists, scientists, and thinkers
who converse in front of an audience
open to uncertainty and amazement.
#18
Monday March 23, 2015 at 8 pm
The Night of Honey
Upcoming Nights
The Night of Wind
The Night of the Monkey
An evening presented by Cédric Villani
(mathematician)
With élisabeth de Fontenay
(philosopher), Olivier Darné (plastic
artist and urban beekeeper)…
The Night of Honey sets out to discover
the world of bees, from ancestral practices
of beekeeping to the mythological
representations associated with them.
Through their presentations, film screenings,
and the tasting of rare honeys, the guest
speakers will also allude to the environmental
threats that are currently faced by bees and
their likely consequences on biodiversity.
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INFORMATION
The program of the Nomadic Nights and Nights
of Uncertainty is available on:
fondation.cartier.com
Admission: €10.50
Reduced rate: €7
(Students, spectators under 25 or over 65,
unemployed and welfare beneficiaries, Maison
des Artistes, partner organizations, Ministry of
Culture, Amis des Musées)
Reservation:
Tel. +33 (0)1 42 18 56 72
Every day except Monday, 11 am to 8 pm
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ACTIVITIES FOR CHILDREN
For the Bruce Nauman exhibition,
the Fondation Cartier pour l’art
contemporain carries on its program
of workshops and guided tours
specially geared to young visitors.
Until June, the Fondation Cartier will
offer creative workshops inspired by
the installation pieces and familyoriented visits.
SATURDAYS AT 11 am
Family visits
Thanks to these family visits, children
and parents alike can participate in a fun
discovery of the Bruce Nauman exhibition
with an art educator. After having gone
through the exhibition in detail, families
can enjoy a self-led visit at their own pace.
SATURDAYS may 16 & june 13 at 3 PM
Garden tours
The Fondation Cartier offers children
guided tours of the garden led by a young
researcher of the Muséum national
d’Histoire naturelle de Paris. Children
will enjoy strolling through this timeless
garden in the heart of Paris to discover
the abundant wildlife that lives around the
Jean Nouvel building.
Wednesdays April 15, May 20 & June 17
STRANGE MERRY-GO-ROUND
Workshop by Elsa Maurios, plastic artist
For 8 years and up, duration: 2 hours
After having discovered Bruce Nauman’s
astonishing Carousel, children will in turn
invent and craft a merry-go-round
of their own. They will decorate and paint
this unique creation with unusual animal
species taken from the wonders of their
imagination.
Wednesdays April 29 & May 27
STOP MOTION
David Says workshop, audiovisual director
For 8 years and up, duration: 2 hours
Inspired by Bruce Nauman’s performances,
children will play at changing the shape,
appearance, and position of the levitating
pencils, thus re-creating the illusion of
the artist’s piece, thanks to stop motion
techniques. Each scene is photographed,
and all of the assembled images make up
an original animation film.
Wednesdays April 8, May 13 & June 10
LIGHT PAINTING
Workshop by Lætitia Nurdin, audiovisual
director
For 8 years and up, duration: 2 hours
The technique of light painting, a real
photographic experience, is a way to fix
a moving source of light. First, the children
will practice drawing silhouettes, faces,
animals and everyday objects onto black
paper. They will then reproduce these
drawings in space with a small lamp
while facing the camera. The resulting
photograph will reveal the child’s light
drawing.
May 6 & June 3
PERFORMANCE
Atelier iiiii ! - Émilie De Castro & Virginie
Diner, graphic designers
For 8 years and up, duration: 2 hours
In this workshop, the children will turn into
real little performers. With pencils, chalk
and felt-tips, repeating movements and
testing the limits of their bodies, they
will create a human spirograph on the
ground. Their bodies and movements will
thus become a creative material, like in
Bruce Nauman’s work. The children will
participate in a graphic, physical and living
art piece!
WEDNESDAYS AT 3 pm
Children’s workshops
After an introduction to the exhibition by
an art educator, children participate in an
original and fun workshop led by an artistic
coordinator.
These are special moments with the
exhibition’s works that give children
an opportunity to learn and try their hand
at various artistic techniques.
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INFORMATION
Full program and agenda at
fondation.cartier.com/children
Fixed rate: €10
Reservation required, open one month
prior to the workshop date.
Tel. +33 (0)1 42 18 56 67
From Monday to Friday, 10 am to 6 pm
or at [email protected]
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INTERNET
fondation.cartier.com
Exclusive contents, filmed interviews
and unpublished documents are regularly
posted on our website to extend your visit
of the exhibitions.
EXCLUSIVE ONLINE
CONTENT
Nobuyoshi Araki
HI-NIKKI (NON-DIARY DIARY)
A year-long weekly encounter with
Nobuyoshi Araki
From May 2014 to March 2015, each week
the Fondation Cartier posted an exclusive slide
show of photographs sent from Tokyo
by Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki.
More than 1300 photographs can be
discovered exclusively online in order to
experience an unprecedented immersion into
the daily life of Nobuyoshi Araki.
SOCIAL NETWORKS
With new posts everyday, the Facebook
page reveals new takes on its activities, as
well as exclusive offers.
Keep up on all the latest news of the
Fondation Cartier on
and enriched content on
30 YEARS OF STORIES
The Fondation Cartier has developed an
ad hoc digital platform, accessible from its
main website and on all formats.
30 years of contemporary art can thus
be discovered worldwide through a great
number of unpublished stories.
Enriched with archive documents
(videos, texts, preparatory notes for
exhibitions, slide shows…) and recent
testimonies active players of its history
(artists, architects, thinkers, writers…),
these accounts illustrate the diversity of the
program since 1984: César, Jean Nouvel,
technological utopias (from Marc Newson
to Panamarenko), fashion ( Jean Paul Gaultier,
Issey Miyake), design (from Ron Arad
to Andrea Branzi), African artists
(Chéri Samba, Seydou Keita…), cinema
(David Lynch, Agnès Varda,…), etc.
FILMS
All of the films that were shot for the
exhibitions are available on the website
of the Fondation Cartier. Watch
the exceptional encounters with art
works and artists that make up the
history of the Fondation Cartier, but also
all of the Nomadic Nights and Nights
of Uncertainty.
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THE e-shop
Thanks to its e-shop, it is possible to purchase
the Fondation Cartier’s publications online —
exhibition catalogs, coloring books, essays,
and limited editions by the artists of the
Fondation Cartier.
The Laissez-passer of the Fondation Cartier can
also be ordered on the e-shop.
› eshop.fondation.cartier.com
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UPCOMING EXHIBITION
eauté Congo
1926-2015 – Congo Kitoko
July 11 › November 15, 2015
A place of extraordinary cultural vitality,
the Democratic Republic of the Congo
will be honored in an exhibition presented
at the Fondation Cartier pour l’art
contemporain from July 11 to November
15, 2015. Upholding the commitment of the
Fondation Cartier to African contemporary
art, this exhibition follows a series of
other shows held at the Fondation Cartier
featuring Congolese artists such as
Bodys Isek Kingelez (1999), Un Art Populaire
(2001), J’aime Chéri Samba (2004), and
Histoires de voir, Show and Tell (2012). Taking
as its point of departure the birth of modern
painting in the Congo in the 1920s, this
ambitious exhibition will trace almost a
century of the country’s artistic production.
While specifically focusing on painting,
it will also include music, sculpture, and
photography, providing the public with the
unique opportunity to discover the diverse
and vibrant art scene of the region.
As early as the mid-1920s, when the Congo
was still a Belgian colony, precursors
such as Albert and Antoinette Lubaki
and Djilatendo painted the first known
Congolese works on paper, anticipating the
development of modern and contemporary
art. Figurative or geometric in style, their
works represent village life, the natural
world, dreams, and legends with great
Mode Muntu, Kusaidia, l’entraide, 1980
poetry and imagination.
Following World War II, the French painter
Pierre Romain-Desfossés moved to the
Congo and founded an art workshop called
the “Atelier du Hangar.” In this workshop,
active until the death of Desfossés in
1954, painters such as Bela Sara, Mwenze
Kibwanga, and Pili Pili Mulongoy learned to
freely exercize their imaginations, creating
colorful and enchanting works in their own
highly inventive and distinctive styles.
Twenty years later, the exhibition
Art Partout, presented in Kinshasa in 1978,
revealed to the public the painters Chéri
Samba, Chéri Chérin, Moke, and other
artists, many of whom are still active today.
Fascinated by their urban environment
and collective memory, they would call
themselves “popular painters.” They
developed a new approach to figurative
painting, inspired by daily, political or
social events that were easily recognizable
by their fellow citizens. Today younger
artists like J-P Mika and Monsengo Shula,
tuned-in to current events on a global scale,
carry on the approach of their elders.
Beginning in the 1980s and continuing
through to the present, innovative sculptors
like Bodys Isek Kingelez and Rigobert Nimi
have created intricate architectural models
of utopian cities or robotized factories to
explore the question of social cohesion. For
them, art provokes self-renewal that in turn
contributes towards a better collective future.
Mika, La nostalgie, 2014
(The Society of Ambiance-makers and
Elegant People) and body-builders,
Ambroise Ngaimoko photographed the
attitudes and ardor of the youth of Kinshasa
in the 1970s.
Music, omnipresent in city life in the
Congo, has actively contributed to this
vibrancy. The Congolese music industry
blossomed during the golden age of rumba
beginning in the 1950s, and now produces
various genres of music including jazz, soul,
rap, and popular dance music.
Reflecting a new generation of artists, the
This important facet of the country’s
members of the collective Eza-possibles,
creative spirit will be explored alongside
created in 2003, have refused the narrow
the exhibition’s artwork with photographs,
confines of the Académie des Beaux-Arts
films, and sound recordings, accompanying
of Kinshasa. Two of its founding painters,
visitors during their captivating and
Pathy Tshindele and Kura Shomali reaffirm colorful journey through the space of
the vitality of the contemporary scene with the Fondation Cartier. Vintage photographs
their unconventional collages and paintings, of the music festival Zaire 74, which was
and critical approach to art.
organized during the famous boxing match
between Mohammed Ali and George
Depicting the energy in the city of Kinshasa Foreman, will be presented in this section.
following the independence of the Congo,
the work of photographers such as
Music and dance will also be central to the
Jean Depara and Ambroise Ngaimoko from Nomadic Nights program of performing arts
Studio 3Z will also be presented in the
events throughout the duration of the show.
exhibition. The designated photographer
of the musician Franco, Jean Depara
portrayed the lively and extravagant
Chief Curator: André Magnin
night life of Kins in the 1950s and 1960s.
Recording the world of La Sape
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INFORMATION
The exhibition
VISITS
The Bruce Nauman exhibition is presented
from March 14 to June 21, 2015 at the
Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain.
The exhibition is open to the public every
day except Monday, from 11 am to 8 pm.
Open Tuesday evenings until 10 pm.
Everyday at 6 pm, free guided tour of the
exhibition with your entrance ticket.
Information at fondation.cartier.com
Self-led group tours
Wednesday to Sunday, from 11 am to 6 pm,
and Tuesday until 8 pm (min. 10 people)
Adults: €9 per person
Schoolchildren and seniors: €4 per person
Free admission for group leaders
ADMISSION
Full admission: €10.50
Concessions: €7
Students, under 25, “carte Senior” holders,
unemployed, beneficiaries of minimum
social benefits, “Maison des Artistes,”
partner institutions, ministre de la Culture,
“Amis des Musées”
Free Admission: Children under 13,
visitors under 18 on Wednesdays,
“Laissez-passer” holders, ICOM members,
press card, invalidity card.
AccESS
261, boulevard Raspail 75014 Paris
Metro Raspail or Denfert-Rochereau
(lines 4 and 6)
RER Denfert-Rochereau (line B)
Buses 38, 68, 88, 91
Vélib’ and disabled parking at
2, rue Victor Schoelcher
Guided tours
Guided tour with an art educator from
Wednesday to Friday, from 11 am to 6 pm
and Tuesday until 8 pm (min. 10 people)
Admission: €12 per person
Schoolchildren and seniors: €5 per person
(Free admission for group leaders)
Architectural visits
One Saturday per month, at 11 am and
5 pm (10 to 20 people at maximum)
After a brief presentation of the Fondation
Cartier, its activities, and its garden, the
visitor will have the chance to discover
Jean Nouvel’s building, its different
architectural components, one of the office
floors above the exhibition space – a floor
which is usually closed to the public –,
and the furniture designed especially for
this building.
Duration of the visit: 1h
Full fee: €12
Students and seniors: €10
Calendar:
Saturday April 4th 2015 at 11 am and 5 pm
Saturday May 16th 2015 at 11 am and 5 pm
Saturday June 6th 2015 at 11 am and 5 pm
Combined ticket
Guided tour with art educator
+ Architectural Visit
Full rate: €20
School groups and seniors: €14
Information and reservations
From Monday to Friday, 10 am to 6 pm
Tel. +33 (0)1 42 18 56 67
[email protected]
THE “LAISSEZ-PASSER”
PASS
The “Laissez-passer” pass provides free and
unlimited priority access to the exhibitions,
guided tours with a curator of the Fondation,
family visits of the exhibitions, invitations
to events at the Fondation Cartier, as well as
many other special offers in other cultural
institutions in Paris.
Annual subscription: €30
Duo Deal: €50
(you and the person of your choice)
Concessions: €25
(Students, “carte Senior,” “carte famille
nombreuse,” unemployed, Maison des
Artistes)
Under 25s: €18
CE rate (please consult us)
Information and subscription
From Monday to Friday, 10 am to 6 pm
Tel. +33 (0)1 42 18 56 67
[email protected]
or online at eshop.fondationcartier.com
The Bruce Nauman exhibition, presented from
March 14 to June 21, 2015, is organized with support
from the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain,
under the aegis of the Fondation de France, and with
the sponsorship of Cartier.
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MEDIA PARTNERS
Each year, France Culture supports many
high-quality cultural and scientific events.
A daily newspaper born in 1944, Le Monde
has become a media company that also
publishes thematic supplements and its
A true exception in the media world since
magazine M, for the sake of independence,
its inception in December 1963, France
rigor, and editorial excellency. These
Culture has more audience and influence
different contents attract 15.1 million
than ever. France Culture Plus, the student
monthly readers, Internet users and
webmedia; France Culture Papiers, the first
mobile users.
cultural magazine made from illustrated
It is a daily and continuous coverage
and enriched transcriptions of radio shows; of international, French, economic, and
France Culture Forums, dedicated to Culture, cultural news. Every day, four pages are
Philosophy, Science, History, and digital
devoted to culture with rich content,
technology in order to confront classic
portfolios, videos, both on its website and
branches of knowledge to the contemporary its mobile application.
world.
This is why Le Monde is delighted to partner
The France Culture galaxy never ceases to
up with the Fondation Cartier pour l’art
amaze and grow beyond its daily air time,
contemporain on the occasion of the
which already brings together more than
Bruce Nauman exhibition, and to share
one million listeners. To keep up on cultural its passion for this artist with all of its
news, listen to Les Matins by Marc Voinchet, audience.
La Grande Table by Caroline Broué,
Le RenDez-Vous by Laurent Goumarre,
More information: lemonde.fr
La Dispute by Arnaud Laporte.
Télérama is pleased to support the
Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain,
a hotspot of contemporary creation with
its long-awaited Bruce Nauman exhibition.
The fine arts lie at the heart of Télérama’s
concerns. The magazine aims to give
access to all of the cultures that make
up Culture, to the greatest amount of
people. In addition to the different
topics it addresses, Télérama devotes a
weekly column and three pages to “Arts
and forms” news, thereby enriching
its approach to design, fashion and
architecture.
More information: telerama.fr
and sortir.telerama.fr
Know it all, hear it all, franceculture.fr
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Emotions
Culinaires
The Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain
would like to thank Émotions Culinaires
who, as a partner for the year, will put
all of its know-how at the service of the
Fondation Cartier. Founded in 2010,
Émotions Culinaires is already a reference in
the events world – a signature of the most
beautiful Parisian receptions. Simplicity,
professionalism and above all, the love of
work well done, summarize the values of
Émotions Culinaires.
More information: emotionsculinaires.com
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