ANDREA BRANZI. OPEN ENCLOSURES

ANDREA BRANZI (1838-)

From March 28 until June 22, 2008, the Fondation Cartier pour l´art contemporain welcomed famous Italian designer Andrea Branzi who on this occasion created two monumental installations specifically for the ground floor of Jean Nouvel´s building. Combining a variety of materials including glass and steel, hemp and bamboo shoots, the artist has devised a frail, delicate and poetic architectural structure in which industrial, manufactured, technological and natural elements are intertwined.

To accompany the exhibition, the Fondation Cartier pour l´art contemporain has published a catalog, which illustrates this outstanding project, including preliminary sketches and photographs of the works installed within the glass exhibition spaces of Jean Nouvel´s building. The book hinges around an interview with Catherine David, former curator at the Centre Pompidou and the Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, director of Documenta X in Kassel (1997) and former director of the Centre d´Art Contemporain Witte de With in Rotterdam from 2001 to 2004.