Jean-François Chevrier (1954)
Art historian, art critic, exhibition curator, professor at the Beaux-arts de Paris since 1988, he was the founder and editor-in-chief of the magazine Photographies (1982-5), general advisor for the Documenta X (1997). For 40 years he has been working on the exchanges between art and literature, modern art (including photography), art since the 1960’s, public space and architecture, and has accompanied the work of very diverse artists.
Exhibitions he curated include Une autre objectivité / Another Objectivity (Paris, Prato, 1988-9), Foto-Kunst (Stuttgart, Nantes, 1989-90), Walker Evans & Dan Graham (Rotterdam, Marseille, Münster, New York, 1992-4), Des Territoires (Paris, 2001), Art and Utopia: Limited Action. Modern Art according to Mallarmé (Barcelona, Nantes, 2004-5), Biographical Forms: Construction and Individual Mythologies (Madrid, Museo Reina Sofia, Nov. 2013-March 2014). Formes biographiques, Nîmes, Carré d’art, summer 2015 ; Agir, contempler / Acting, contemplating at the Musée Unterlinden, Colmar, 2016.
A seven-volume anthology of his writings was published by Editions L’Arachnéen from 2010 to 2015: La Trame et le hasard (2010) ; Entre les beaux-arts et les medias: photographie et art moderne (2010) ; Walker Evans dans le temps et dans l’histoire (2010). Des territoires (2011) ; Les Relations du corps (2011) ; L’Hallucination artistique. De William Blake à Sigmar Polke (2012). Œuvre et activité. La question de l’art (2015).
He is also the author of a monograph on Jeff Wall (Paris, Hazan, 2006, 2013).
In Spanish:
– La fotografía entre las bellas artes y los medios de comunicación, ed. Jorge Ribalta, Barcelona: Gustavo Gili, 2006.
– El año 1967. El objeto de arte y la cosa pública o los avatares de la conquista del espacio / The year 1967. From Art Objects to Public Things, or Variations on the Conquest of Space, prólogo de Manuel Borja-Villel, Madrid, Brumaria, 2013.
– Formas biográficas. Construcción y mitología individual (exhib. cat.), Madrid, Siruela/Museo Reina Sofía, 2013.
– Anne-Marie Schneider, Paris, L’Arachnéen / Madrid, Museo Reina Sofía, 2016.
