Jean Chatelus, who died in 2021 at the age of 82, was born in Lyon, taught history and was a lecturer at the Sorbonne. Over the course of his life, he amassed a unique collection, as an “accumulator” rather than a collector. Nearly 400 pieces - sculptures, installations, paintings, photographs, drawings, votive and vernacular objects - revolve around the themes of the body, death and the ephemeral nature of life. Presented in almost its entirety, the collection embraces Chatelus's initial taste for surrealism and diverted objects, then for body art; for non-Western ethnographic objects and folk traditions, as well as for the outsiders and enfants terribles of contemporary art (Cindy Sherman, Mike Kelley, Christian Boltanski, Yayoi Kusama, Michel Journiac, Daniel Spoerri, Robert Filliou, Nam June Paik, Joana Vasconcelos, Andres Serrano, Wim Delvoye... )
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