RECOMMENDED: Énormément bizarre - The Jean Chatelus collection, Paris / 2025.03.06. - 2025.06.30. 🇫🇷

„In 1987, the Centre Pompidou devoted a major exhibition to the Austrian architect, and in 2016, the Musée National d'Art Moderne acquired a significant body of his work, including installations, models, drawings and collections.” - www.centrepompidou.fr

Right now in Paris, the most astonishing exhibition of tribal art isn't actually… a tribal art exhibition! The Centre Pompidou is presenting the Jean Chatelus collection, which Chatelus had entrusted to the Antoine de Galbert Foundation. The Foundation, in turn, decided to donate it to the Centre Pompidou… so that it could become part of the national collections. “Enormously bizarre” is how the artist Wim Delvoye described the Jean Chatelus collection upon discovering it.

Jean Chatelus, historian and professor at the Sorbonne, passionate about contemporary art, but also about folk art and non-Western art. He devoted all his resources—modest, as is often the case for professors—to building a collection of over 500 pieces, which filled his apartment, creating one of the most astonishing cabinets of curiosities of the 20th century.

His discerning taste and keen eye often led him to acquire works by emerging artists who had not yet achieved significant renown and command prohibitive prices. A prime example is that of Cindy Sherman, the great American photographer.

 

Énormément bizarre

The Jean Chatelus collection, donated by the Antoine de Galbert foundation

6 Mar - 30 Jun 2025

Centre Pompidou, Paris

Place Georges-Pompidou 75004 Paris

 

 

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