8 dolls by michel nedjar are featured in the exhibition celebrating the 15th anniversary of the Centre Pompidou-Metz.
co curator: Maurizio Cattelan
Conceived to mark the 15th anniversary of the Centre Pompidou-Metz, this large-scale exhibition takes over the entire museum with hundreds of works from the Centre Pompidou, presented in a unique dialogue with forty works by Maurizio Cattelan, special guest and co-curator. Structured like an abecedary in homage to Gilles Deleuze, the exhibition explores the notion of “Sunday”—a multifaceted theme open to numerous interpretations.
Eight “Chairdames” dolls by Michel Nedjar are included in this exceptional exhibition.
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He is the most widely exhibited and published living art brut artist, yet the extraordinary trajectory of this Frenchman raises a question that is rarely addressed: that of the impermanence of art brut. Discovered by Jean Dubuffet at a time when he was working on the resurgence of the symbolic body, he allowed himself to become the protean artist we know and who, in his creation, embodies absolute freedom. His work can be found in countless collections, and he was the first artist brut to enter the collections of the Musée national d’art moderne (Pompidou). Exhibited at the Monnaie de Paris, the Albertina Museum and the Mona, Michel Nedjar has been the subject of nine monographic exhibitions.