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脡norm茅ment bizarre. La collection Jean Chatelus
Jean Chatelus, who passed away in 2021 at the age of 82, was a Lyon-born historian and lecturer at the Sorbonne. Throughout his life, he amassed a unique collection, driven more by an impulse to accumulate than by a traditional collector鈥檚 approach. Comprising nearly 400 pieces鈥攕culptures, installations, paintings, photographs, drawings, votive and vernacular objects鈥攖he collection explores themes of the body, death, and the fleeting nature of life.
Presented almost in its entirety, the collection reflects Chatelus鈥檚 evolving tastes: from an early fascination with Surrealism and repurposed objects, to a later focus on body art. It also reveals his keen interest in non-Western ethnographic artifacts, folk traditions, and the works of contemporary art鈥檚 outsiders and enfant terribles, including Cindy Sherman, Mike Kelley, Christian Boltanski, Yayoi Kusama, Michel Journiac, Daniel Spoerri, Robert Filliou, Nam June Paik, Joana Vasconcelos, Andres Serrano, and Wim Delvoye.
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Jean Chatelus, who passed away in 2021 at the age of 82, was a Lyon-born historian and lecturer at the Sorbonne. Throughout his life, he amassed a unique collection, driven more by an impulse to accumulate than by a traditional collector鈥檚 approach. Comprising nearly 400 pieces鈥攕culptures, installations, paintings, photographs, drawings, votive and vernacular objects鈥攖he collection explores themes of the body, death, and the fleeting nature of life.
Presented almost in its entirety, the collection reflects Chatelus鈥檚 evolving tastes: from an early fascination with Surrealism and repurposed objects, to a later focus on body art. It also reveals his keen interest in non-Western ethnographic artifacts, folk traditions, and the works of contemporary art鈥檚 outsiders and enfant terribles, including Cindy Sherman, Mike Kelley, Christian Boltanski, Yayoi Kusama, Michel Journiac, Daniel Spoerri, Robert Filliou, Nam June Paik, Joana Vasconcelos, Andres Serrano, and Wim Delvoye.
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