Exhibition overview
Beyond its presence in art history and among the attitudes, questions, and rituals of different cultures, the face is the subject of particular attention and insistent anxiety. In human custom, the face is found at the crossroads of our relationships with memory, the sacred, and death.
The Fondation Cartier’s project approaches the face as opposed to the portrait, that is as opposed to the presentation of a person seized in his/her context, according to a mimetic concept of his/her likeness. This meaning concerns each face, well beyond the portrait of an individual and apart from any resemblance or similarity to the model.
The faces in this exhibit, whether structured by their expression, overwhelmed by passion, or shut down by death, were chosen because they are each representative of all faces.
- Jean-Michel Alberola,
- Dieter Appelt,
- Giuseppe Arcimboldo,
- Antonin Artaud,
- Frank Auerbach,
- Francis Bacon,
- John Baldessari,
- Albert Bartholomé,
- Jean-Michel Basquiat,
- Max Beckmann,
- Hans Bellmer,
- Christian Boltanski,
- Günter Brus,
- Arnulf Rainer,
- Peter Campus,
- Gaston Chaissac,
- Francesco Clemente,
- Chuck Close,
- George Condo,
- Pascal Convert,
- Enzo Cucchi,
- Honoré Daumier,
- André Derain,
- Otto Dix,
- Jean Dubuffet,
- Albrecht Dürer,
- James Ensor,
- Erró,
- Jean Fautrier,
- Jean-Marc Ferrari,
- Gérard Gasiorowski,
- Alberto Giacometti,
- Julio González,
- George Grosz,
- Raoul Hausmann,
- Catherine Ikam,
- Alexej von Jawlensky,
- Asger Jorn,
- Paul Klee,
- Johann Caspar Lavater,
- Charles Lebrun,
- Annie Leibovitz,
- Claus Holtz,
- Helmar Lerski,
- Urs Lüthi,
- Kasimir Malevitch,
- Robert Mapplethorpe,
- Henri Matisse,
- Peter McClard,
- Annette Messager,
- Franz Xaver Messerschmidt,
- Henri Michaux,
- Joan Miró,
- Amedeo Modigliani,
- Iba N’Diaye,
- Bruce Nauman,
- Francis Picabia,
- Pablo Picasso,
- André-Pierre Pinson,
- Giambattista Della Porta,
- Markus Raetz,
- Martial Raysse,
- Paul Richer,
- Larry Rivers,
- Auguste Rodin,
- Dieter Roth,
- Dieter Roth,
- Richard Hamilton,
- Thomas Ruff,
- Charlotte Salomon,
- Lucas Samaras,
- Sam Szafran,
- Cindy Sherman,
- Léon Spilliaert,
- Giambattista Tiepolo,
- Patrick Tosani,
- Andy Warhol,
- William Wegman,
- Wols,
- Zoran Music
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