The Dream of Ulysses

The Carmignac Foundation : 

Created in 2000 on the initiative of Edouard Carmignac, is a corporate foundation that focuses on two main areas: a collection of contemporary art, which currently includes more than 300 works, and the photojournalism prize, supporting an annual investigative reportage that is the subject of an exhibition and a catalogue. Since June 2018, in partnership with the Foundation, the Villa Carmignac, an exhibition space, has been created on the Ile de Porquerolles, to offer temporary exhibitions, a garden inhabited by works specially created for the space, as well as cultural and artistic programming. 

Authors : Francesco Stocchi, Achille Bonito Oliva, Mark Wigley.

Les artistes : Micol Assaël, John Baldessari, Miquel Barceló, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Marinus Boezem, Louise Bourgeois, Mark Bradford, Francesco Clemente, Adger Cowans, Olafur Eliasson, Haris Epaminonda, Leandro Erlich, Urs Fischer, Cyprien Gaillard, Douglas Gordon, Duane Hanson, Keith Haring, Camille Henrot, Jenny Holzer, Thomas Houseago, Rashid Johnson, William Kentridge, Yves Klein, Willem Adriaan van Konijnenburg, Willem de Kooning, Oliver Laric, Roy Lichtenstein, Tony Matelli, Adam McEwen, Janaina Mello Landini, Bruce Nauman, Marilène Oliver, Jorge Peris, Alessandro Piangiamore, Benoît Pype, Carol Rama, Ann Ray, Man Ray, Martial Raysse, Odilon Redon, Gerhard Richter, James Rosenquist, Miguel Rothschild, Niki de Saint Phalle, Arcangelo Sassolino, Egon Schiele, Cindy Sherman, Günther Uecker, Adrián Villar Rojas, Andy Warhol

In the catalogue of this group exhibition, designed by the studio deValence, most of the works are represented opposite a quotation by the artist, chosen specifically for its echo to the theme of the labyrinth and the Homeric journey. The reader is thus invited to meet each work and each artist, to stroll around, to be challenged, and even to lose oneself thanks to the game of mirrors offered by the graphic design. The book includes a booklet of in situ views of the exhibition.