Background
Martin, Jean-Hubert was born on June 3, 1944 in Strasbourg, Alsace, France. Son of Paul and Paulette (Rieffel) Martin.
(Magiciens de la Terre was an exhibition held at the Centr...)
Magiciens de la Terre was an exhibition held at the Centre Georges Pompidou and the Grande Halle at the Parc de la Villette in 1989. Curated by Jean-Hubert Martin, it aimed to counter the ethnic bias and colonial complicity of the contemporary art world. Martin chose 100 artists from around the world: 50 from first-world cultures such as the U.S. and Europe and 50 from cultures then routinely ignored by the art market, in Africa, Latin America, Asia and Australia. “I want to play the role of someone who uses artistic intuition alone to select objects which come from totally different cultures,” Martin explained. “I also want to incorporate into that process the critical thinking which contemporary anthropology provides on the problem of ethnocentrism.” With photographs and gallery plans, this volume revisits the exhibition.
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Martin, Jean-Hubert was born on June 3, 1944 in Strasbourg, Alsace, France. Son of Paul and Paulette (Rieffel) Martin.
Licence ès Lettres History of Art, University Sorbonne, Paris, 1968.
Curator, Musee National d'Art Moderne, Paris, 1971-1982; director, Kunsthalle, Bern, Switzerland, 1982-1985; director, Musee National d'Art Moderne Center Pompidou, Paris, 1987-1990; director, Chateau d'Oiron, France., since 1991; director, Musée National des Arts d'Afrique et d'Oceanie, Paris, since 1994.
(Magiciens de la Terre was an exhibition held at the Centr...)
Member International Committee Museum's.
Married Carolyn Breakspear, February 17, 1978 (divorced February 1991). 1 child, Alice; married Laure Poulet, January 22, 1993. 1 child, Judith.