Walk on the Wild Side: At the heart of the Carmignac Collection

Product Description Works by legendary artists from the Carmignac Collection. A private collection is an account of an individual’s passion and reveals something of its owner’s personality. Composed of around 250 works by leading artists such as Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Martial Raysse, Gerhard Richter and Ed Ruscha, the Carmignac Collection is also an open dialogue with emerging art scenes and contemporary creation by artists like Zhang Huan and Korakrit Arunanondchai. First exhibited in the offices of Carmignac Gestion, and now shared with the public at the Fondation Carmignac’s premises in Porquerolles, the collection belonging to Édouard Carmignac has provoked its viewers since its inception in the early 1980s. In this volume Nicolas Bourriaud, Luc Ferry, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Camille Morineau, Catherine Millet and David Cronenberg lead you through six of its key themes: The Great Game; Shocks and Freedom; Heritage; Perception Introspection; Contemporary Mythologies; Trangression and Sex. From the Back Cover Edouard Carmignac, an asset manager, has been collecting contemporary art for more than 25 years. Housed in the management company's premises on Place Vendôme in Paris and in its international subsidiaries, the Carmignac collection currently boasts nearly 200 paintings, photographs and sculptures from the 20th and 21st centuries. This book is realised on the occasion of the opening of the Foundation on the island of Porquerolles, Provence, realised by architect Marc Barani and by landscape architect Louis Beneche. The volume presents for the first time the Carmignac collection, which includes the work of strong personalities who, beyond their individual aesthetic vision, share a perspective on art and the world that is different, and an intuition and audacity that borders on provocation. Edouard Carmignac first turned his attention to artists such as Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol, with their energy and irreverence, but also Keith Haring, Francesco Clemente and Jean-Michel Basquiat. The Collection also includes the work by Asian artists Dinh Q. Le, Lean Seckon and Li Tian-Bing, the Iranian artist Shirin Neshat or the Lebanese artist Ayman Baalbaki.