For the thirty years of my gallery, I have long dreamed of an exhibition that celebrates my mistakes, my failures and the misunderstandings that have led (future) great artists to work elsewhere.
This admission of weakness would highlight the difficulties in doing our job, the extraordinary passion that must be displayed to face our artistic adventures and the resilience that we must show when we endure these failures.
The great Japanese curator, Akiko Miki of the Mori Museum, was ready to set this project to music, which could have been deployed on the 7,450 m2 of exhibition spaces that I have in Paris, New York, Hong Kong, Seoul, Shanghai and Tokyo. .
I had already exhibited some at the start of our respective careers: Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Damien Hirst, Pierre Huyghe, Philippe Parreno, Dana Schultz.
But they chose to explore larger and more prestigious territories than what I could offer them at the time.
In 1993, I met Yoshitomo Nara in Japan.
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