View of the exhibition Comme un oiseau, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris, 1996. Picture D.R.
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Exhibition overview

The exhibition Comme un oiseau looks at man’s fascination with birds. Inviting to contemplation, the exhibition explores the original relation a civilization, culture, or artists entertains with the world of birds, from man’s earliest art to contemporary art, taking in along the way western art-works since the 17th century on. 
The views of the ethnographer, ornithologist, poet, philosopher and artist together invite us to see birds as a way of exercising our gaze, our thoughts and our imagination.

Artists and contributors of the exhibition:
  • Vito Acconci,
  • Gilles Aillaud,
  • Jean-Jacques Audubon,
  • John Baldessari,
  • Jacques Barraband,
  • Robert Barry,
  • Georg Baselitz,
  • Jean-Michel Basquiat,
  • Lothar Baumgarten,
  • Pierre Belon,
  • Louise Bourgeois,
  • Constantin Brancusi,
  • Jan Bruegel,
  • Frédéric Bruly Bouabré,
  • Georges Leclerc de Buffon,
  • Balthasar Burkhard,
  • Alexander Calder,
  • Henri Cartier-Bresson,
  • César,
  • Chaval,
  • Francesco Clemente,
  • Matt Collishaw,
  • Joseph Cornell,
  • Merce Cunningham,
  • Edward Sheriff Curtis,
  • Jean-François Dejonghe,
  • Alexandre-François Desportes,
  • Walt Disney,
  • Max Ernst,
  • Robert Frank,
  • Felix Gonzalez-Torres,
  • Nancy Graves,
  • Raymond Hains,
  • David Hammons,
  • Carsten Höller,
  • Rebecca Horn,
  • Fabrice Hyber,
  • Johanasie Illauq,
  • Jan Van Kessel,
  • Paul Klee,
  • Louise Lawler,
  • Claude Lévi-Strauss,
  • René Magritte,
  • Étienne-Jules Marey,
  • Annette Messager,
  • Joan Miró,
  • Ernst Norlind,
  • Gabriel Orozco,
  • Panamarenko,
  • Francis Picabia,
  • Jean-Pierre Raynaud,
  • Martial Raysse,
  • Nicolas Robert,
  • Auguste Rodin,
  • Graham Sutherland,
  • Jean Tinguely,
  • Édouard Traviès,
  • Joseph M. W. Turner,
  • Nicolas Vleughels,
  • Johann Walther,
  • William Wegman,
  • Christopher Williams,
  • Ossip Zadkine,
  • Aloys Zötl

Image gallery

View of the exhibition Comme un oiseau, façade of the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Balthasar Burkhard, Aile de faucon, 1996, silkscreen on sheets, 256 x 374 cm, Collection of the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris (acq. 1996)

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© Balthasar Burkhard

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D.R.

View of the exhibition Comme un oiseau, 1996, Jean-Pierre Raynaud, La Volière, tiles, chromium, plated steel, mirror, sand, ceramic, 590 x 530 x 530 cm, collection of the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris (acq. 1996)

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© Jean-Pierre Raynaud / Adagp, Paris

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© Claude Postel

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View of the exhibition Comme un oiseau, 1996, Jean-Pierre Raynaud, La Volière, tiles, chromium, plated steel, mirror, sand, ceramic, 590 x 530 x 530 cm, collection of the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris (acq. 1996)

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© Jean-Pierre Raynaud / Adagp, Paris

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© Jean-Pierre Godeaut

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View of the exhibition Comme un oiseau, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris, 1996

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D.R.

View of the exhibition Comme un oiseau, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris, 1996

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D.R.