Browse Descriptions for: Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain

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A pioneer among the private art foundations that have transformed the cultural life of Paris, the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain was created in 1984 by the jewellery house Cartier to support and exhibit living artists. For three decades its home was a luminous glass-and-steel building on the Boulevard Raspail in Montparnasse, designed by the architect Jean Nouvel and opened in 1994, in which transparent walls dissolved the boundary between the gallery, its garden and the street. The f...