Died on December 29, 2024, in Toulon, at the age of 78, Marie-Claude Beaud was of the generation of pioneers, those who, long before the advent of the Mitterrand-Lang duo, had sowed the seeds of art contemporary in the regions. She was the first curator to dare to leap into the private sector, directing the Cartier Foundation at a time when the art world viewed luxury with hostility. “Marie-Claude believed that art was fundamental for a city or a company to think differently”, summarizes his old accomplice Jean-Louis Froment, founder of the CAPC, a grain market transformed into a contemporary art museum in Bordeaux. “She was not an institutional woman, but someone who profoundly changed institutions”, he adds. “He was a volcano of ideas and generosity, who liked to bypass the system, all systems”adds curator Cristiano Raimondi, whom she recruited in 2009 to assist her at the New National Museum of Monaco.
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In all her functions, Marie-Claude Beaud has had the rare talent of nurturing young exhibition curators or curators, who owe her so much, such as the former boss of the Palais de Tokyo Jean de Loisy, or Constance Rubini, today today at the helm of the Bordeaux Museum of Decorative Arts. Everywhere, she tossed aside the too rigid categories of art, not caring about chapels and dogmas, even more about the market, appreciating Brice Dellsperger as well as Lou Reed, Yinka Shonibare as Michel Blazy, without neglecting comics, with which she completed, in 2021, her long mandate at the head of the New National Museum of Monaco.
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