Pascale Cassagnau holds a PhD in Art History and Criticism and is responsible for the audiovisual and new media collection at the CNAP (Centre national des arts plastiques, Paris). She writes extensively for Art Press and is the author of texts on artists such as Chris Burden, James Coleman, John Baldessari, Pierre Huyghe, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster and Matthieu Laurette, among others. She is mainly interested in the study of new film practices and their cross-over with contemporary art. Her essay “Future Amnesia, Enquêtes sur un troisième cinéma” (Ed. Isthmus, 2006) investigates new filmic forms, existing between fiction and documentary. “Un pays supplémentaire” (Ed. Ecole nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, 2010) focuses on contemporary creation in the media architecture. Her book, “‘Apichatpong Weerasethakul,’ Une théorie des objets personnels” was released as an e-book in 2016. Her essay “Diagramme Monteiro, on Joao Cesar Monterio, was written in collaboration with Hughes Decointet and published in Editions de L’Oeil in 2017. Her essays “La répétition générale,” — a work on the processes of creation and research in the fields of cinema, contemporary art — and “Dispositifs-jeux” — on Jean Frapat, inventor of television devices — are currently in progress.

Last update 9th March 2017

Carles Guerra is an artist, art critic and independent curator. He holds a PhD from Universitat de Barcelona. He studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Universitat de Barcelona and the Media Studies Department, The New School for Social Research. His most recent profile has been associated with outstanding positions in the field of cultural management, cultural policies and curatorial activities. He has been Director of Primavera Fotogràfica de Catalunya, Director of the Virreina Centre de la Imatge, Chief curator at Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona MACBA and, from 2015 through 2020, Executive director at Fundació Antoni Tàpies.

On top of a vast number of monographic exhibitions devoted to individual artists such as Ahlam Shibli, Art & Language, Allan Sekula, Susan Meiselas, Harun Farocki, Oriol Vilanova and Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, he has curated projects like 1979. A Monument to Radical Instants and Antoni Tàpies. Political Biography.

Last update: 16th November, 2020