Collector profile: André Magnin
Contemporary Art | Through his world travels, André Magnin slowly discovers that to learn from others we needs to “unlearn what we naively first put into our heads.” André Magnin is skeptical of Western certainty and arrogance. His childhood in Madagascar accustoms him to the confrontation between worlds. Spending his adolescence in eastern France, he engages intensely with the waves of music emanating from across the Channel and the Atlantic, while at the same time initiating himself to Dadaist, surrealist, and electric poetry, to the living arts, to the Situationist International bulletin, Guy Debord, Raoul Vaneigem, Ralph Rumney and the theory of the derive… whose formidable presence will mark his life.
André magnin
© Alighiero Boetti, Paris, 2015
He lives on the rue Battant, then the rue Proudhon in Besançon, where, with his circle of friends, he spends more time organizing musical, artistic and social events than attending university. In 1979, with the artist collective PAP’CIRCUS, he organizes the first performance festival, “a local catastrophe,” that convinces him to never become an artist. In 1983, he moves to Paris where he meets a series of individuals who will mark his life : Anne Tronche and the art critic Georges Boudaille, who he assists in organizing the Nouvelle Biennale de Paris in 1985, the artists Christian Boltanski, […]
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