Jeu de paume converted to theatre
app. 1630
Drawing by Abraham Bosse
Date: Friday, 18 May, 2007
Time: 18:00
Location: OCA Studio 2
Wergelandsveien 17, Oslo
Marta Gili speaks about her experiences as the recently appointed director for the newly restored and renovated Galerie national du Jeu de Paume in Paris. The Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume is a museum of contemporary art in the north-west corner of the Tuileries Gardens in Paris. The building was constructed in 1861 during the reign of Napoleon III. It originally housed tennis courts; the name is from the precursor of tennis, the jeu de paume. It was used from 1940 to 1944 to store Jewish cultural property looted by the Nazi regime in France. Before 1986, it contained the Musée du Jeu de Paume, which held many important impressionist works now in the Musée d'Orsay. In 2004, a newly renovated museum reopened as the Centre pour la Photographie et l'Image.
Marta Gili graduated in Philosophy and Education from Universitat de Barcelona. Between 1983 and 1988, she was part of the Primavera Fotogràfica de Barcelona Organizing Committee. Between 1991 and 2006, she was head of the Department of Photography and Visual Arts of the Fundació la Caixa. On October 2006, she was appointed director of the Jeu de Paume in Paris. Simultaneously, she was Artistic Director of Printemps de Septembre (visual arts festival) in Toulouse, for the 2002 and 2003 editions. She was member of the Acquisitions Committee for the Fonds National d'Art Contemporain of the French Ministry of Culture, between 1994 and 1997. Marta Gili has been the curator of a multitude of monographic exhibitions, such as those of Helen Chadwick, Tracey Moffat, Miguel Rio Branco, Lorna Simpson, Aernout Mik, Christer Stromholm, Gillian Wearing and Doug Aitken, amongst others. She has also headed thematic exhibitions, such as la Imatge Fràgil, Ficcions Documentades or Historias Animadas. She has contributed with articles in El País, El Mundo, ABC, Tema Celeste Beaux Arts Magazine, and she also collaborates monthly in EXIT magazine. Marta takes part in numerous seminaries and conferences, and teaches several postgraduate courses, both in Spain and abroad. Her texts have been published in several monographs of artists and in theory books published by Phaidon, Steidl, Gustavo Gili and the Fundació la Caixa.
OCA launches in 2007 a series of talks and discussions entitled Kunst and Kapital in an effort to examine the increasingly porous sectors of private and public. It was launched in January 2007 with no. 1, Beatrix Ruf, Director and Curator, Kunsthalle Zürich, On Collection Building and Exhibition Making, and in May no. 2, Chin-tao Wu on the Strategies Behind Building the Saatchi Collection, entitled Why be a Saatchi?: From Shark Sensation to Pastoral Painting. As the debate ensues within Norway as to the viability in supplementing public funding sources with contributions from the private sector in the area of culture, OCA recognizes that discussions around these issues are without precedent of example. How is it possible to proceed with an assumption as to behaviour of the private sector toward contemporary art without fully understanding the motives and psychologies of the private sector, especially in the unique field of contemporary culture? How do international initiatives in the field lend to understanding further the range of possible examples? The Office for Contemporary Art will launch a series of seminars and talks around these topics in an effort to demystify the contemporary art market while illuminating how the critical community is being steadily streamed into these new initiatives.
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