A contemporary cabinet of curiosities, comprising the singular collection assembled by Jean Chatelus (1939-2021) over the course of his life: sculptures, installations, paintings, photographs, drawings by the greatest figures of the 20th century, as well as by outsider artists and "enfants terribles", pieces of non-Western art and objects from popular traditions, reflecting diverse aesthetics and voices.
"Enormously strange"are the words chosen by the artist
Wim Delvoye to describe the incredible collection gathered by Jean Chatelus (1939–2021) in his Parisian apartments from the late 1960s onwards. From the bedroom to the garage, this book takes us into his modern-day cabinet of curiosities, as precise and demanding as it is disturbing and thought-provoking. The collection includes the work of numerous artists such as
Cindy Sherman, Jake & Dinos Chapman,
Mike Kelley,
Yayoi Kusama,
Christian Boltanski, and
Gina Pane, alongside Komo masks and religious knick-knacks. The collection encompasses over 600 artworks and documents sculptures, installations, paintings, photographs, drawings, votive and vernacular objects all testifying to the collector's obsession: the tormented body, the poetics of ruins, death, the organic and its decomposition, the looming threat of apocalypse, the forbidden, the religious and its blasphemy. Enriched with detailed entries on the pieces, critical essays, and personal accounts, this book documents the collection and pays tribute to its creator's unwavering dedication.
This catalog was published on the occasion of the bequest of the Jean Chatelus collection to the Fondation Antoine de Galbert, followed by its donation to the Musée national d'art moderne – Centre Pompidou.
Published on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition at Centre Pompidou, Paris, from March to June 2024.
Featuring
Vito Acconci,
Eva Aeppli,
Mequitta Ahuja,
David Altmejd,
Michèle Andal,
Dieter Appelt,
Arman,
assume vivid astro focus,
Rina Banerjee,
Richard Baquié,
Marcel Bascoulard,
Jérôme Basserode,
Bill Beckley,
Olivier Beer,
Frédéric Benrath,
Madeleine Berkhemer,
Joseph Beuys,
Huma Bhabha,
Guillaume Bijl,
Marc Bijl,
John Bock,
Christian Boltanski,
Monica Bonvicini,
Jonathan Borofsky,
George Brecht,
Olaf Breuning,
Ricardo Brey,
Günter Brus,
Mark Brusse,
Dora Budor,
Peter Buggenhout,
James Lee Byars,
Jake & Dinos Chapman,
Jean-Jules Chasse-Pot,
Ouyang Chun,
John Coplans,
Tony Cragg,
Johan Creten,
Hanne Darboven,
Wim Delvoye,
Damien Deroubaix,
Gérard Deschamps,
Stephan Dillemuth,
Mark Dion,
David Douard,
Elmgreen & Dragset,
Mounir Fatmi,
Hans-Peter Feldmann,
Robert Filliou,
Lizzie Fitch &
Ryan Trecartin,
Eugène Gabritschevsky,
Thomas Grünfeld,
Gérard Guyomard,
Fabrice Gygi,
Rachel Harrison,
Georg Herold,
Noritoshi Hirakawa,
Ulrich Horndash,
Komaro Hoshino,
Douglas Huebler,
Peter Hutchinson,
IRWIN,
Christian Jaccard,
Richard Jackson,
Alain Jacquet,
Paul Jacquet,
Cameron Jamie,
Folkert de Jong,
Michel Journiac,
Mike Kelley,
Edward Kienholz,
Nancy Reddin Kienholz,
Karen Kilimnik,
Peter Klasen,
Jürgen Klauke,
Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc,
Alexander Kosolapov,
Piotr Kowalski,
Tetsumi Kudo,
Guillermo Kuitca,
Yayoi Kusama,
Mire Lee,
Zoe Leonard,
Justin Lieberman,
Lucile Littot,
Urs Lüthi,
Zhenya Machneva,
Paul Mansouroff,
Robert Mapplethorpe,
Matthew McCaslin,
Jonathan Meese,
Bjarne Melgaard,
Gerhard Merz,
Henri Michaux,
John Miller,
Pierre Molinier,
Yasumasa Morimura,
Robert Morris,
Ciprian Muresan,
Hermann Nitsch,
Henrique Oliveira,
Dennis Oppenheim,
Tony Oursler,
Nam June Paik,
Gina Pane,
Jorge Pardo,
Chloe Piene,
Jack Pierson,
Huang Yong Ping,
Cameron Platter,
Henrik Plenge Jakobsen,
Sigmar Polke,
Jon Pylypchuk,
Arnulf Rainer,
Odilon Redon,
Tobias Rehberger,
Dario Robleto,
Félicien Rops,
Amanda Ross-Ho,
Mimmo Rotella,
Dieter Roth,
Francis Roux,
David Salle,
Julia Scher,
Bernard Schultze,
George Segal,
Andres Serrano,
Jim Shaw,
Cindy Sherman,
Chiharu Shiota,
Sandy Skoglund,
Ilya Smirnov,
Agathe Snow,
Anna Solal,
Daniel Spoerri,
Haim Steinbach,
Elmar Trenkwalder,
Meyer Vaisman,
Joana Vasconcelos,
Banks Violette,
Wolf Vostell,
Li Wei,
Anne Wenzel,
Franz West,
Pae White,
Gottfried Wiegand,
Sue Williams,
Scottie Wilson,
Jesse Wine,
Joel-Peter Witkin,
Bill Woodrow,
Michele Zaza,
Gilberto Zorio,
Unica Zürn.
