THE SHIP OF FOOLS

MONOGRAPH CATALOGUE (2003-2009)

Musée de Grenoble / Solo Show - Exhibition: July 4 - September 27, 2009

136 pages

Authors:

GUY TOSATTO: Guy Tosatto (born in 1958 in La Tronche, Isère) is the director of the musée de Grenoble, where he has organised over thirty-five exhibitions and steered a policy of enhancement of the modern and contemporary art collections since 2002. After obtaining a Diplôme d’Etudes Approfondies at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, he became, in 1985, the first curator of the musée Départemental d’Art Contemporain de Rochechouart. He organised its first exhibitions (including D. Tremlett, A. Messager and C. Boltanski, or R. Long) and laid the foundations of the collection (Arte Povera, G. Richter, and B. Nauman, among others), as well as a collection devoted to Raoul Hausmann.

In 1993, he became the director of the Carré d’Art, musée d’Art Contemporain de Nîmes. He held solo exhibitions of the work of S. Polke, J. Muñoz, T. Schütte, J-P. Bertrand, T. Struth, M. Merz, R. Horn, and others, acquiring new works for the collections (G. Richter, S. Polke, G. Penone). From 2001 to 2002, he directed the musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes (H. Federle exhibitions, Dialogue ininterrompu, etc.) From the start of his career, he has also written numerous texts for exhibition catalogues. In 2016, he was the co-curator of the Sigmar Polke exhibition at the Palazzo Grassi in Venice.

ECKHARDT MOMBER: Eckhardt Momber was born in 1941 in Berlin, at the center of human madness. His book "'s its Krieg!" (Y'a la Guerre!), Published forty years later, follows the flow of blood from 1914 to the gates of fascism in 1933 (…)

LUDWIG SEYFARTH: Born in 1960 in Hamburg. Independant curator, writer and author of many books on modern and contemporary art, as well as articles for german magazines. He received the prize ADKV/Art in Cologne for his art critics in 2007. In 2008, he published Unsichtbare Sammlungen. Kunst nach der Postmederne

GREGORY FORSTNER (…)

Weight : 788 g

136 pages

ISBN-10 : 3941185683

ISBN-13 : 978-3941185685

Dimensions : 14 x 1.8 x 24.8 cm

Verlag Für Moderne Kunst (July 1, 2009)

French / German