Academia

With: Marina Abramovic, El Anatsui, Graziano Arici, Hans Arp, Richard Avedon, Erszebet Baerveldt, Miquel Barceló, Hans Bellmer, E.J. Bellocq, Anna Bjerger, Christian Boltanski, Michaël Borremans, Louise Bourgeois, Rembrandt Bugatti, Pierre Buraglio, Alberto Burri, James Casebere, Enrico Castellani, Loris Cecchini, Paul Cézanne, Edwaert Collier, Philippe Comar, Tony Cragg, Honoré Daumier, Berlinde De Bruyckere, Jakob de Witt, Richard Deacon, Edgar Degas, Rineke Dijkstra, Désirée Dolron, Jan Fabre, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Robert Filliou, Lucio Fontana, Mariano Fortuny, Henri Foucault, Adam Fuss, John Gerrard, Nan Goldin, Antony Gormley, Kees Goudzwaard, Gothard Graubner, Gabriel Gresely, Cai Guo Qiang, Hans Hartung, Roni Horn, Thomas Houseago, Pierre Huyghe, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, Anish Kapoor, Jonathan Kenworthy, Kimsooja, Yves Klein, Bertrand Lavier, Heinz Mack, Piero Manzoni, Robert Mapplethorpe, Annette Messager, Joan Mirò, Tatsuo Miyajima, Desiderio Monsù, Jean-Luc Moulène, Renato Nicolodi, Isamu Noguchi, Kimiko Ohara, Hans Op de Beeck, Roman Opalka, ORLAN, Gabriel Orozco, Tony Oursler, Giuseppe Penone, Pablo Picasso, Jack Pierson, Arthus Quellinus II, Markus Raetz, Ad Reinhardt, Doris Salcedo, Jan Schoonhoven, Conrad Shawcross, Kazuo Shiraga, Michel Sima, Dominique Stroobant, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Vassilakis Takis, Luc Tuymans, Cy Twombly, Gunther Uecker, Dirk van Delen, Koen van den Broek, Dirk Vander Eecken, Victor Vasarely, Emilio Vedova, Angel Vergara, Jef Verheyen, Bill Viola, Edouard Vuillard.

"Know Thyself" was the leitmotif on which Plato's illustrious Academy was founded. No command -- since it forces upon us the inevitable question "Who are you?" or "Qui es-tu?"- has intrigued humankind more.
Academia: Qui es-tu? forms the second part of a trilogy which started with Artempo in Venice in 2007.
Time and Space constitute the canvasses on which all human activities, past, present and future occur. The exhibition Artempo was an intriguing interrogation on those themes, and in particular on Time as a destructor and producer of art.
Academia: Qui es-tu, on the other hand, examines the dynamical process of artistic creation. The site of the Chapelle de l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris is indeed the ideal venue to examine the interplay between inherited academic knowledge accumulated over centuries, education, and the subsequent transformation and transmission of that knowledge into a novel artistic creation; for short the cross-fertilization between art and knowledge.
It is to the emotionally charged experiences of a thousand generations of our ancestors that we must look in order to discover the sources of aesthetic pleasure in art, poetry, in music, in mathematics, and in other artistic forms. H.E. Huntley