Books published by Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain

Raymond Depardon's studies of rural France combine intimate observation with the evocative timelessness of place

Bernie Krause is an American musician and bioacoustician. United Visual Artists is a studio founded by Matthew Clark in London in 2003. Gilles Boeuf is a Professor of Biology at the Sorbonne. He was chairman of the Mus¿ national d¿histoire naturelle, Paris, from 2009 to 2015, and is now chairman of the Scientific Council of the Agence fran¿se pour la biodiversit¿AFB). Hans Ulrich Obrist is a Curator and Artistic Director of the Serpentine Gallery, London. Michel Andr¿s a biotechnologies engineer and Director of the Laboratory of Applied Bioacoustics. He is also a professor at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Barcelona.

In July 2022, the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain will present the first exhibition of the work of Australian Indigenous artist Sally Gabori in France. Sally Gabori started painting at the age of 81 and produced over 3,000 paintings over the 10 years that her career lasted. Through a selection of thirty paintings, including remarkable large format works that punctuated her artistic output, and thanks to exceptional artwork loans from major Australian museums, the exhibition invites to discover the singular and colorful work of this extraordinary painter, who is one of the leading Australian artists of the last decade.Gathering the works of the exhibition alongside other paintings by the artist, the exhibition catalogue invites to further discover Sally Gabori's work, deeply rooted in the history of her people, the Kaiadilt, and attesting to an extraordinary pictorial modernity. Contributions by Nicholas Evans- specialist of the Kaiadilt culture and close to Sally Gabori's family; Judith Ryan and Bruce McLean - curators of Indigenous - put in perspective traditions and artistic practices to tell the story of Sally Gabori, the strength of her art, and the substantial cultural legacy she left.

From February to May 2022, the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain will present a major exhibition of Graciela Iturbide, one of Latin America's most emblematic photographers. Working mainly in black-and-white in her native country, Mexico, Graciela Iturbide is interested in the cohabitation between ancestral traditions and Catholic rites, as well as in man's relationship with death. She also dedicates an important part of her work to women and their roles within their social environment. In recent years, her photographs have turned empty of all human presence, revealing the strong bond that unites her with things, nature, and animals. Through more than 200 photographs, the exhibition presents Graciela Iturbide's most iconic works and an important selection of unreleased photographs, as well as a series of color photographs specially commissioned by the Fondation Cartier, revealing a sensitive, poetic, and humanistic work. The book accompanying this "portrait" exhibition offers an exploration of Graciela Iturbide's work and personal universe. It brings together all the works presented at the Fondation Cartier, as well as an interview with the photographer by French essayist Fabienne Bradu, an original short story by Guatemalan writer Eduardo Halfon, and a photo-reportage of Iturbide's home and studio by Mexican photographer Pablo López Luz.

Communes is a photographic essay by Raymond Depardon exploring the villages of France¿s Mediterranean inland region. Its 80 black-and-white photographs were taken by Depardon in the summer of 2020, after France¿s first lockdown, and cover the departments of Aveyron, Lozère, Gard and Hérault. These villages are timeless havens of peace, where tranquility and cool prevail. Witnesses to history, they were threatened by the `Nant concession¿, a shale gas extraction project, but the inhabitants protested and the project was abandoned in 2015. The villages, with their cobbled streets, old houses with jagged facades and rustic construction, are once again thriving. The photographs are accompanied by a text by Salomé Berlioux, president of the association Chemins d¿Avenirs, an association that accompanies and promotes thousands of young people from isolated areas. Berlioux is also the author of Les Invisibles de la République. Comment sauver la jeunesse de la France périphérique? (Robert Laffont, 2019) and Nos campagnes suspendes. La France périphérique face à la crise (Editions de l'Observatoire, 2020).

This book accompanies Claudia Andujar's unprecedented retrospective at the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain.

Hans Ulrich Obrist has been Co-Director of International Exhibitions and Programs and Direction of International Projects at the Serpentine Gallery since 2006. His Interview project so far comprises nearly 2,000 hours of conversations.

Bruce Albert is an anthropologist and committed advocate of the Brazilian Yanomami, with whom he has been working since 1975. Emanuele Coccia is Associate Professor at the ¿ole des Hautes ¿udes en sciences sociales, Paris, and author of The Life of Plants: A Metaphysics of Mixture. Francis Hall¿s Botany Professor at Montpellier University. Stefano Mancuso is Professor at Florence University, and a member of the Accademia dei Georgofili.

A new collection by the noted Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki.

From 19 November 2013 to 6 April 2014, the Fondation Cartier pour lart contemporain will be showing America Latina 1960-2013, organized in collaboration with the Amparo Museum in Puebla (Mexico). This book offers a perspective on Latin American photography from 1960 to today, focusing on the relationship between text and the photographic image.

Working in mediums such as sculpture, video, film, installation, performance, and printmaking, the author connects you to physical realities of violence, sex, and death with visceral, spiritual messages, like an early neon sign proclaiming. He tries to helps the world by revealing mystic truths.