The Valmont Foundation

In 2015, Didier Guillon created the Valmont Foundation, an institution dedicated to contemporary art and creation, to exhibit his collection and to promote and patron young artists. The foundation has gathered more than 200 international art pieces.

As a non-traditional curator, and a cultural agitator, Didier Guillon^[1] often holds exhibitions where he invites artists to think about a theme and explore new fields of creation.

Among the art projects promoted by the Valmont Foundation, the most notable is the exhibition “The Dialogue of Fire. Ceramic and Glass Masters from Barcelona to Venice”, which was an official collateral event at the 56th Biennale di Venezia in 2015. The exhibition, curated by Didier Guillon himself along with Luca Berta and Francesca Giubilei, featured contemporary ceramic and glass artworks fabricated at the Artigas Foundation in Gallifa (Catalonia) and on Murano (Italy). The sixteenth-century Palazzo Tiepolo Passi housed, for seven months, a collection of ceramic plates by acclaimed masters such as Antoni Tapies and Eduardo Chillida and site-specific installations created by Silvano Rubino, Judi Harvest,^[2] Joan Gardy Artigas, and Isao Llorens Ishikawa. A new project to be presented in Venice in 2017 is now in progress. Didier Guillon has developed a particular fascination for Murano glass and for the tradition of glassmaking in Venice. For this reason, he has produced and designed glass artworks in collaboration with Venetian glass masters, namely the “Cage de Pluie”, a minimalistic sculpture in the shape of a cube made of ultramarine glass bars.

On 2016, Didier Guillon worked on a new exhibition, El Cuor No se Vende, at the Historical Archives Museum of Hydra Greece, along with Dina Adamopoulou, the Director of the Museum. According to her: “Working with Didier Guillon on the “El Cuor No se Vende” exhibition has been a tremendous experience that I will remember fondly. A true patron of the arts, Didier Guillon gives selflessly of himself for the sake of culture and aesthetics. Our partnership began in the summer of 2013, with the “Plats d’Artistes” exhibition at the Museum of Hydra. Today, we are back together for “El Cuor No Se Vende.” We see this extraordinary exhibition as a cultural bridge between Greece and the international art scene thanks to a series of events organized to highlight this connection.”

Didier Guillon likes to think of new ways to approach, discuss and appreciate contemporary art. He has curated numerous exhibitions around the world, from Paris to New-York, including Hong-Kong, Tokyo and Greece.

History

2013 – Le Jardin Suspendu – Verbier – Switzerland
2013 – Magic Event: Benedicte Blanc Fontenille- Montréal – Canada
2013 – Plats d’Artistes – Hydra – Greece
2013 – 55th Venice’s Biennale – Glasstress – Venice – Italy
2014 – Collection d’Artistes – Hôtel Le Meurice – Paris – France
2014 – Collection d’Artistes – New-York – United States of America
2014 – Plats d’Artistes – Hong-Kong
2015 – The Dialogue of Fire – 56th Venice’s Biennale – Venice – Italy
2015 – Collection d’Artistes – Barcelona – Spain
2015 - Collection d’Artistes – Tokyo – Japan
2016 – El Cuor No Se Vende – Hydra – Greece

References

↑ "Didier Guillon on the Valmont Foundation". 29 July 2016.
↑ "Creating Judi Harvest's Soft Pillows of Murano Glass". The New York Times. 18 May 2015.

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