The art critic and the exhibition commissioner replaces Emma Lavigne to lead the Paris institution.
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Surprise appointment at the Tokyo Palace: Guillaume Disease was chosen by the Elysee, on the proposal of Roselyne Bachelot, Minister of Culture, to lead the Paris Cultural Institution. He will replace Emma Lavigne, part in October for the Pinault Collection. The name of this art review and independent exhibition commissioner had escaped rumors. But his reputation is no longer to do in the middle of the art, of which he has been shaking up the lines for nearly twenty years. “Tokyo’s palace is an exciting challenge, and I thought it was the right time for me and for the palace, he told us. He has the power of a great institution and the flexibility of An art center: it’s a great chance to rely on. “
To have worked on several occasions, he knows the lower corners of the institution and his potential: “In 2004, I initiated, with the plastic Thomas Hirschhorn, the 24-hour project Foucault, which corresponds well to The idea of a place of living that I defend today “: the palace, then populated by non-stop conversations around the philosopher, proposed another relationship to the public. Fourteen years later, he will come back to accompany the artist Naïl Beiloufa, around a proposition just as detonating.
Private public, of confidential projects in consumer exhibitions, the Smak of Ghent, Belgium, at the New York Performa Festival, its route is rich and original: trained in management and philosophy, Guillaume Diseases in the strong field of the audacity of self-taught. Initiator of “Performed Conferences”, in charge of the programming of the Hermes Verrière, in Brussels, since 2013, called recently at the direction of the show of Montrouge (Hauts-de-Seine), he also orchestrated extensive thematic exhibitions: designed in 2011 with Hélène Guenin at the Pompidou-Metz Center, “Erre” consisted of variations on the labyrinth; “The French spirit”, imagined with his accomplice François Piron, convened the Underground landscape of France from the 1970s and 1980s at the Red House, in Paris, in 2017.
A biennial project off the walls
Its future president strategy is part of these experiences. “My goal is to make the Palais de Tokyo a reactive place, indefinite, a little wild, sensitive to societal issues and the news. A place to the identity a little trouble and fluid, which welcomes varied species, an elasticity forms, without turning at the Spanish hostel, “says Guillaume Disease.
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