Henry Périer is a French art critic, PhD in art history and independent curator. He is the biograph of

Pierre Restany Pierre Restany (24 June 1930 – 29 May 2003), was an internationally known French art critic and cultural philosopher. Restany was born in Amélie-les-Bains-Palalda, Pyrénées-Orientales, and spent his childhood in Casablanca. On returning ...

, the French art critic, founder of the movement New Realism (

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, César,

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, etc.) Curator of the year of China in France 2004, he organized an exhibition including 39 Chinese contemporary artists such as

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at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Marseille. Scientific advisor of the retrospective

Zeng Fanzhi Zeng Fanzhi (; born 1964) is a contemporary Chinese artist based in Beijing. Zeng's works have been praised as possessing an emotional directness, an intuitive psychological sense, and a carefully calibrated expressionistic technique. Born and ...

at the Musée d'Art moderne de la ville de Paris (October 2013 - February 2014).

Publications

* ''

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, un demi-siècle de jeu existentiel dans l’art'', Entretien de

par Henry Périer, catalogue de l'exposition Jacques Villeglé au musée d’art contemporain de Marseille ac 2012 * '' Zhao Bandi Fashion Show'', Henry Périer, Performance at the Palais de Tokyo, Guy Pieters Editions, mars 2009 * ''

Bernard Buffet Bernard Buffet (; 10 July 1928 – 4 October 1999) was a French painter, printmaker, and sculptor. He produced a varied and extensive body of work. His style was exclusively figurative. The artist enjoyed worldwide popularity early in his caree ...

'', Rétrospective at the Centre de la Vieille Charité in Marseille, Henry Périer, Editions Indigène, 2009 * ''China Gold'', Henry Périer, Editions Gallimard, 2008 * ''

et la Provence'', Henry Périer, Editions Palantines, Paris, 2007 * ''

, l'alchimiste de l'art'', Henry Périer, Editions Cercle d'Art, Paris, 1998

Sources

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnPCNWlNAHM Interview of Zeng Fanzhi and Henry Périer, exhibition at Musée d'Art Moderne of Paris, "L'Invité", TV5MONDE, October 2013
El comissari de Venècia busca artistes “espectaculars” i que “defensin l’obra”
* ''Henry Périer, Chinese contemporary art in French curator's eyes'', p. 56-57, Harper's Bazaar, May 2011
Henry Perier "L'Invité" TV5MONDE spéciale FIAC, 25 octobre 2009

References

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