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Specialist in modern and contemporary art for ove 30 years. Marc Pottier, a Frenchman, living between Paris and Rio de Janeiro, is an international curator of contemporary art, specializing in art in public spaces. He also is involved with cultural digital platforms, television and webtv. Pottier managed the Sawada collection of modern and contemporary art between Paris, New York, Tokyo and Nagoya. He worked for eight years at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a Cultural attaché in Rio de Janeiro and Lisbon. As an independent curator, Pottier organized important exhibitions such as “Avant-garde walk a Venezia” during the 1995 Venice Biennial, "Aleksander Rodchenko" at MAM-SP, "Picasso Ceramics" (Bernard Picasso’s collection), “Egypt of the Pharaohs” with the Louvre, “Elles@Pompidou” with the Centre Pompidou in Rio de Janeiro and "Luzboa-a bienal da Luz" in Lisbon. In 2008/9 he has been working for the Royal Group/ Abu Dhabi for a Public Art Park program. He has been giving lectures in Abu Dhabi, Dubaï and Bahrain on Public Art. He is the author of the book "Made by Brazilians" (Enrico Navarra publishers) featuring interviews with 230 people representing the world of contemporary Brazilian art. He was the guest curator of the 3rd Bahia Biennial and also of the 'Made by Brazilians' creative invasion at the former Matarazzo hospital in São Paulo in 2014. Pottier is the creator and host of 'Foreign Eye', a weekly program on Brazilian Cultural TV channel Arte1. Since 2016 he is involved with the Cidade Matarazzo Floresta Atlântica hotel in São Paulo imagined by French Architect Jean Nouvel and designer Philippe Starck: 50 different site-specific and unique works to be installed in the public areas (Lobbies, corridors, swimming pools, parking arrivals…). Opening planned for second half of 2021. He was the curator and creator of the exhibitions ‘Monumental – arte na Marina da Gloria’ 2016, 2017 and 2018 and is preparing a new tv program Imaginary Museums. He was appointed as the main Curator of the future Curitiba Biennial (2022). Working today on web.tv cultural programs. In May 2020, with the director Elisabeth Schlumberger, he has created for MuseumTV a series of 18 interviews with international artists: “Journal d' un artiste confiné“ (Diary of a Contained Artist). Currently they are preparing a new program on art collectors
• France, 1979 to 1987 worked at Francis Briest, an auction house, specialized in modern and contemporary art, today Artcurial; • 1986 -1988 was part of the board of the Friends of the MNAM-Centre Pompidou with Presidency of Hélène David-Weill ; • Japan 1989 to 1992, director of the collection of modern and contemporary art Sawada (Nagoya, Tokyo, Paris and New York); • New York 1993 to 1998, independent curator; was curator advisor for the West-Coast French Contemporary Art event San Diego-L.A.-Santa Barbara-S.F.-Portland-Seattle. • Avant-garde Walk a Venezia” Off biennial of Venice in 1995; • “Walk on the Soho Side”, NY 1996, in partnership with the Guggenheim and the New Museum. • After Brazil as Cultural Attaché at the French Embassy from 1998 to 2002, he went to Portugal, Cultural Attaché at the French Embassy from 2002 to 2006; • Independent curator at Paris from 2007 to 2011, where he has been advisor for the prefiguration of the cultural project of the Ile Seguin in Boulogne-Billancourt • Emirates / Abu Dhabi, 2008 to 2009, commissioned to work for two public park projects for the Royal Group.
Main exhibitions in Brazil • Rodchenko at MAM SP (1997); • Picasso - Ceramics, at the Casa França Brasil (2001); • Pulso Iraniano (Iranian Pulse) at Oi Futuro Flamengo, Oi Futuro BH and SESC Villa Mariana SP (2011); • Elles @ Pompidou at the CCBB RJ and CCBB BH (2013); • Invited curator of the Bienal of Bahia in 2014; • Creative Invasion at the ancient Matarazzo hospital - SP (2014), that won the award for the best exhibition of the year; • Curator of the Matarazzo project - SP, opening planned for 2021; • Monumental – art at the Marina da Glória - RJ, concept and curatorship, editions in 2016, 2017 and 2018; • Projeto Circular – art at Praça Adolpho Bloch – SP, concept and curatorship 2019/2020.
Knowledge in other disciplines Performing arts (theater, music and dance) • Working as a Cultural Attaché in Rio de Janeiro and Lisbon for the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1998 - 2006) he was also responsible for these disciplines. Cinema: • Setting up a cinema to present a film festival by artists as part of the Creative Invasion in the Matarazzo project in SP in 2014; • Creation of an artist film program for the Rio de Janeiro Film Festival (2016 and in partnership with Arte1 channel in 2017). Seminars: • Organization of several seminars, including one on the art of light, during Luzboa, the biennial of the art of light in Lisbon (two editions 2004 and 2006), conception and organization. Television: • Creation and presentation of the program “Olhar Estrangeiro” (Foreign Eye) on the Arte1 TV channel in which 27 of the main cultural institutions of Rio de Janeiro were shown and described by artists from Rio. Program sponsored by the Secretary of Culture of the City of Rio (2015-2016). Cultural programs on the Web: • Consultant for ZYX.solutions (2019-2020); • BLINK program for Travel Box Brazil, Rio de Janeiro seen through the eyes of photographers (2019-2020); • MuseumTV, European web channel, “Diary of a confined artist”, 18 interviews with international artists. (2020). Creation of collector's clubs: • “APPART – L’Art qui déménage” in France, teaching club on art and training for creating collections 1979-1985; • “ADIAC Portugal”, Association for the International Diffusion of Contemporary Art in Portugal with the publication of books to help emerging artists (2002-2006). Author: • “Made by ... Feito por Brasileiros", book with 230 interviews with personalities from the art world in the eight main Brazilian cities. Ed Navarra, 2014 (in Portuguese and English); • “Ashaninkas, un paradis perdu?”, book written after visiting the tribe in Acre, accompanying the artist Oskar Metsavaht. Ed. Arcadia, 2015 (France); • Several other publications. Education experiences: • “West Coast”, a series of French contemporary art exhibitions from San Diego to Seattle in the USA, with workshops set up at schools in the different cities involved (1998); • Photography workshops with artist Vincent Rosenblatt in the community of Santa Marta in Rio de Janeiro (2000-2002); • Tiles workshops assembled with the Belgian artist Françoise Schein in the Vidigal community in Rio de Janeiro (1998-2000); • Educational service assembled within the Creative Invasion at Matarazzo, in São Paulo, in 2014; Cultural trips for collectors: Exclusively for groups of collectors in Europe, Brazil, Colombia, Morocco, Lebanon and Mexico; with Center Pompidou, SF MoMA, Contemporary Art Society of London, Maison Rouge of Paris, groups of collectors linked to Harvard University, Friends of the Pinacoteca de SP, among others. Lectures: Conducted many lectures on Art in Public Space in various parts of the world: Rice University, Houston, Oklahoma University Museum and Speed Art Museum in Louisville, USA, Bahrain Museum of Modern Art, Sorbonne Abu Dhabi, Casa do Saber RJ, ECCO Brasília, Escola SP.. French, Portuguese, English
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