Fondation Cartier: Some Art Left Behind

Agnès Varda, Nini sur son arbre, 2009, bronze, 33cm tall, installed in the Fondation Cartier’s new Palais Royale space across from the Louvre, and photographed for the Fondation by the epically named Marc Domage. used without permission because, well, keep reading When the Fondation Cartier moved out of its 1994 Jean Nouvel building on boulevard Raspail into its Jean Nouvel renovation at the Palais Royale last year, it left some art behind. I got no response from the Fondation during the run-up and opening, and figured I’d give it some time, let them sort it out. But they haven’t responded to renewed inquiries, so I just assume their plan is to ignore and erase the works abandoned and destroyed by their move. Fondation Cartier by Jean Nouvel with Theatrum Botanicum, 1995, by Lothar Baumgarten, image: Jean Nouvel via Apollo’s review of Trees The biggest is also the most inevitable: in 1994-95 Lothar Baumgarten designed the garden surrounding Nouvel’s building, planting over 200 French…