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.

Conversation between Andrea Branzi and Catherine David

Andrea Branzi, Open Enclosures
Publisher: Fondation Cartier pour l´art contemporain, Paris, 2008
Softback, 29.5 x 24 cm, 96 pages, 55 color illustrations
Bilingual version French / English
Distribution outside of France: Thames & Hudson, London - New York
ISBN: 978-2-86925-081-9
Price: 35.50 euros

Andrea Branzi, Open Enclosures
Limited edition numbered and signed by the artist
Wood and glass box set designed by Andrea Branzi
All unique sets
Price: 1200 euros
For all information, please contact Adeline Pelletier:
adeline.pelletier@fondation.cartier.com