guided tour by marc donnadieu
tomasz machciński / joan tompkins, being is its doubles
As part of the Starting Sunday event organized by the CPGA, researcher, and art critic Marc Donnadieu offers a guided tour sunday 13th october at 4pm on the theme of Tomasz Machciński’s and Joan Tompkins’s appointment in early photography and their letters.
Marc Donnadieu, born in 1960 in Jerada (Morocco), is a researcher, teacher, art critic and independent curator based in Paris.
He was chief curator of Photo Élysée (Musée cantonal pour la photographie, Lausanne, Switzerland) from 2017 to 2023, after having been curator in charge of contemporary art at LaM Musée d’art moderne, d’art contemporain et d’art brut de Lille Métropole from 2010 to 2017, and director of the Fonds régional d’art contemporain de Haute-Normandie from 1999 to 2010.
*This event is subject to availability.
The exhibition remains open to the public until November 10, 2024, Wednesday to Saturday, 2pm to 7pm.
Tomasz Machciński (1942–2022), a war orphan and Polish laborer, dedicated 50 years of his life to creating over 22,000 photographic self-portraits. Ten years before Cindy Sherman, Machciński embarked on an intense quest for identity. Recently discovered, this monumental work has been acclaimed at the Rencontres d’Arles, Paris Photo, the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, and the Independent Art Fair in New York.
- According to the artist’s wishes and in agreement with the Machciński Foundation, only 2,500 photographs from the estate will eventually be available for sale.