Press release

Jean Chatelus, who died in 2021 at the age of 82, was born in Lyon, had a degree in history and was a lecturer at the Sorbonne. 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 allows us to embrace Chatelus's taste, initially for surrealism and misappropriated objects, and later for body art; for ethnographic objects from outside the West and from popular tradition, 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, etc.). )