In 1994, for example, the Fondation Cartier commissioned a monumental video installation from Pierrick Sorin, who has since become a widely-known video artist esteemed throughout the world. In 1995, it exhibited an installation entitled Bucky, From Chemistry to Design by a young designer named Marc Newson. In 1998, for an exhibition called être nature, it commissioned a vertical garden for the glass façade of Jean Nouvel’s building from an artist called Patrick Blanc, who, until then, was relatively unknown to the general public. In 2005, the Fondation Cartier introduced the French public to the work of Ron Mueck, an Australian hyper-realist sculptor, and also displayed a panoramic overview of the work of young artists around the world in an exhibition entitled J’en rêve.J’en rêve brought together the work of more than 60 young artists, several of whom have since achieved international renown. In 2007, the Korean artist Lee Bul held his first solo exhibition at the Fondation Cartier in Paris.
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In the field of photography, the Fondation Cartier has shown, for the first time in France, the work of the Malian photographers Seydou Keuta (1994) and Malick Sidibé (1995), as well as works by Francesca Woodman (1998) and Alair Gomes (2001), who are also now universally acclaimed.
As for work from Japan, the Fondation Cartier has introduced the European public to the photographers Nobuyoshi Araki (1995), Daido Moriyama (2003), and Rinko Kawauchi (2005), and, as part of the être nature exhibition (1998), to the master of ikebana, Yukio Nakagawa. In 2002, two exhibitions were highly successful: Kaikai Kiki, the first large-scale solo exhibition in Europe for the neo-pop painter Takashi Murakami, and Coloriage, designed in cooperation with twenty or so young Japanese artists representing the most contemporary trends in manga illustrations, music, fashion, painting and animated films. In 2006, two exhibitions devoted to the painter Tanadoori Yokoo and to the young artist Tabaimo continued this exploration into Japanese creative arts.
