Éric Troncy

Éric Troncy

curator-artist

interview by OLIVIER ZAHM
portrait by PIERRE EVEN

 

Curating has become a serious discipline: it can be studied at art schools and universities. At the beginning of the ’90s, being a young curator meant nothing more than championing the new kind of artists that you believed in, according to your ability to detect and orchestrate ongoing changes in the chaotic postmodern world.

Éric Troncy was the first curator of this changing ’90s art scene in France. More than two decades later, I consider him to be the best of my generation — a reference for what could be labeled a “curator-artist.” His curatorial concepts and choices are pushing the limits of how artworks can be presented, juxtaposed and connected — transforming a predictable group show into an artistic statement as well as a photogenic experience.

He is also a strongly…