Statement: Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain-Paris

For me the museums, foundations, institutes, galleries, and all the permanent and temporary spaces housing art are the most important because I am interested in the relationship between art and architecture. This relationship, which viewers often do not deeply understand or lack the education for, is certainly influenced by three significant factors when it comes to whether they like an exhibition or not: the space-architecture, the setup-curation, this magical combination is created in relation to the artworks and the first two factors. The Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, which will soon change its location and will move near to Palais Royal, closes a wonderful chapter with many good exhibitions of art and architecture in a building of glass and steel, where light and transparency play a leading role. Above all, the unified horizon created by the glass with the amazing garden, where the interior and exterior are in complete harmony. The building was designed by the French architect Jean Nouvel, who moved to Paris in 1994 after ten years in Jouy-en-Josas near Versailles, and it reflects his other notable works such as the Institut du Monde Arabe and the Musée du Quai Branly. -Efi Michalarou