NORMAN'S ARTFUL DEBUT

摘要

Norman Foster has become an absolute beginner by personally curating the summer exhibition at the Carre d'Art Museum in Nimes, a building he designed more than two decades ago. Three weeks before the opening, he was still sketching individual vitrines and pedestals, fretting about the thickness of the acrylic and the degree of overlap. This is the first time that the 77-year-old Foster has assembled an art exhibition and also the first time that he has, in effect, put his emotions on show - via more than 100 artworks in 25 spaces. There are many big names in the show - Turner, Ai Wei Wei, Hockney, LeWitt, Rothko - and new commissioned pieces by Bill Fontana, Olafur Eliasson and Nuno Ramos. But two thirds of the artworks are by relatively unknown artists whom Foster describes as 'extraordinary talents'.