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Thirty Years for Contemporary Art: Box Set

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75 €

In 2014, for its thirtieth anniversary, the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain published a box set of two lavishly illustrated books recounting its history through its most significant values: boldness, avid curiosity, and commitment to the artists.

The first volume reflects the unique character of this place of creation and encounters, which was the first to support artists and offer a program open to all fields of contemporary thinking. Featuring interviews with the major figures of the Fondation Cartier’s history, this book traces back thirty years of exhibitions and outstanding events. It also highlights the many facets of the glass and steel building on Boulevard Raspail, ever changing with time, with the seasons and in relation to the exhibitions it houses. This incredibly flexible space is an eternal source of inspiration for the artists whom it welcomes.

The second volume relays the voices of important figures who are close to the Fondation Cartier—artists, advisors, art critics, friends— and who have shaped the history of the institution. Bringing together 2,000 archival images, amongst which many unpublished photographs and rare documents (sketches of exhibition set design, personal archives of artists), this book offers a chronological journey throughout the exhibitions, performances, and main events that took place since the creation of the Fondation Cartier in 1984.

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Editor Publication Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris
Languages French and English versions
Format

Volumes 1 and 2 gathered in a box set, 23 × 30 × 7 cm

ISBN 978-2-86925-108-3
Release October 2014

Alain Dominique Perrin

Marie-Claude Beaud

Jean de Loisy

Jean Nouvel

Following studies at the École supérieure des beaux-arts de Bordeaux, Jean Nouvel (1945, Fumel, France) entered the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris, graduating in 1971. His first job was as assistant to the architect Claude Parent. He then worked with the urbanist and essayist Paul Virilio before opening his own practice in 1970. Jean Nouvel’s approach to architecture—guided by context, history, and culture of the site—has brought him international renown. After his first major project in Paris, the Institut du Monde Arabe (1987), he has designed many architectural projects around the world : the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain Boulevard Raspail (Paris, 1994), the Louvre Abu Dhabi museum (Abu Dhabi, 2017), or the Museum of Art Pudong in Shanghai (Shanghai, 2021). In late 2025, another project was inaugurated in Paris, the new spaces of the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain at 2 Place du Palais-Royal.

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Hervé Chandès

Bruce Albert

French anthropologist Bruce Albert is honorary research director at IRD, the French Research Institute for Development in Marseille, and a fervent defender of the Yanomami people of Brazil, with whom he has been working and visiting since 1975. He is the author of numerous articles and several books on Yanomami ethnography, the situation of indigenous people in the Brazilian Amazon, and the ethics of anthropological research, including The Falling Sky: Words of a Yanomami Shaman (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013) and Yanomami, l’esprit de la forêt (Paris: Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, 2022), both with Davi Kopenawa.

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Jean-Pierre Bourguignon

Michel Cassé

Fei Dawei

Régis Durand

Ticio Escobar

André Magnin

Robert Storr

Peter Sloterdijk was rector and professor of philosophy and media theory at Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design from 1992 to 2015. He was director of the Institute for Cultural Philosophy at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna from 1989 to 2008. Exploding the confines of academic philosophy, his approach relies on constant contact with the real world, opened to all areas, from contemporary art

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Cédric Villani