Carsten Höller Double Take on Jean Pigozzi’s Collection at Centre National d’Art Contemporain

GRENOBLE.- Jean Pigozzi collects art and is also a photographer himself, while the notion of “doubleness” is at the very centre of Carsten Höllerʼs life and his work as an artist. It seemed natural that their meeting would culminate in a joint project, with Jean Pigozziʼs collection constituting the raw material for Carsten Höllerʼs attempt to curate the exhibition in such a way that it also becomes an artwork in its own terms. The Pigozzi collection is known for twenty years as one of the worldʼs foremost collections of contemporary African art. Over the past few years, however, Pigozzi has discreetly added over 500 works by young Japanese artists under thirty years of age to his collection. Carsten Höller, along with Jean Pigozzi, has conceived a scheme for a dual exhibition, confining the African contribution solely to the Democratic Republic of Congo, which is juxtaposed to the art from Japan. It is the similar presence of the art from o

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