Alexandre Gilbert born on October 30, 1980, in Paris, France, is a curator and an independent journalist.
Alexandre Gilbert | |
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| Born | 30 October 1980 |
| Occupation(s) | Art dealer, independant journalist |
| Parents |
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| Relatives | Arnouph Deshayes de Cambronne, Joseph Thebaud, Paul Cottin, Henri Picard-Destelan |
Family
Born at the Hôpital Saint-Antoine, he grew up in Paris and Sylvains-les-Moulins. He is the son of the Alsatian Jewish television producer Marc Gilbert[1], founder of the literary and political show Italiques, and Laurence de Cambronne, editor-in-chief adjunct of ELLE magazine.[2] He is a descendant of Arnouph Deshayes de Cambronne, adjutant major of the National Guard and governor of the (Chateau d'Orrouy)]] and the Château de Compiègne, Joseph Thebaud, agent of the French East India Company, Andrew Morris, the first Catholic elected in New York, Paul Cottin, assistant librarian of the Arsenal, Ernest Picard-Destelan, a naval officer, and Henri Picard-Destelan, co-director of the Chinese Maritime Customs Service.
Education
He attended École Valmonceau, Cours Hattemer, the École Internationale Bilingue, Lycée Fénelon Sainte-Marie, where he earned a Baccalauréat in Economics and Social Sciences with honors. He briefly studied at five universities: St Clare’s College, Wellesley College, Nanterre University, Reims Management School, and Paris Diderot University, before doing an internship at Manugistics (Open Group) with Guy Mamou-Mani in 1997.
In 1999, he shared an office with Yann Barthès in the communication department at Canal+ and was recruited by Alain Kruger for the magazine Premiere from 2001 to 2002, where he wrote an article titled Le casting flingueur des candidats for the 2002 French presidential election.[3] He was invited to the Sarajevo Film Festival and the Annecy International Animated Film Festival, where he interviewed Mike Leigh, Pete Docter (The Incredibles, Monsters, Inc., Up, Soul) and Chris Wedge (Ice Age, Robots).
Career
As the youngest exhibition curator in France in 2005, he became director of Galerie Chappe[4][5], the highest contemporary art gallery in Paris at 92 meters,[6] where he exhibited artists like Pete Doherty[7], Kate Moss, Marc Zermati[8], Mathieu Chedid, Mathieu Demy, Wes Anderson, Michel Gondry[9], Lady Gaga[10], Jarvis Cocker[11], Bill Plympton[12], Yann Tiersen, Zaho de Sagazan[13]. In 2009, Technikart listed him among the top 100 influential figures.[14]
In 2017, he provided previously unreleased documents regarding his grandfather, Claude de Cambronne, co-founder with Marcel Dassault of Bordeaux-Aéronautique during World War II, to historians Patrick Fridenson and Claude Carlier. In 2019, he was invited by the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
In 2018, he interviewed Serge Klarsfeld at the Shoah Memorial after Polish President Andrzej Duda signed, though referred to the Constitutional Court, a law that acknowledged Poland as solely a victim and not complicit in Nazi crimes, allowing for punishment of those who mentioned Polish complicity in the Holocaust.[15].
In 2019, he interviewed Georges-Marc Benamou following the revelations of antisemitic writings by Yann Moix, and Nicolas Lebourg regarding the "Great Replacement" theory during the 2022 French presidential election.[16]
In 2022, he conducted the last interview with Maurice Olender, who directed Le Genre humain and La Librairie du XXIe siècle at Éditions du Seuil.[17] After the 78th anniversary of the liberation of the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp, he interviewed Hans-Joachim Lang, Georges Yoram Federmann, Frédérique Neau-Dufour, and Efraim Zuroff.[18][19].
In 2023, he presented Italiques, his father Marc Gilbert’s show, upon its addition to the Madelen catalog on the French National Audiovisual Institute's platform.[20]
In 2024, he told Les Échos[21] that he has lived without a mobile phone for over ten years, interviewed screenwriters John Orloff and Kirk Ellis for Masters of the Air and Franklin on Apple TV+, and philosophers Jean-Clet Martin[22] about James Cameron’s exhibition at the Cinémathèque Française and Valentin Husson on Broken Cosmologies and their cinematic representation.[23]
Bibliography
- Patrick Fridenson, Entreprises et histoire n°85, ESKA, 2016
- Claude Carlier, Dassault, de Marcel à Serge, Cent ans d'une étonnante aventure humaine, industrielle et politique, Perrin, 2017
References
- ^ "Marc Gilbert, journaliste au « Nouvel Obs », est mort il y a 40 ans. Voici quelques-uns de ses articles". Le Nouvel Obs. 6 November 2022.
- ^ France, Centre (29 July 2012). "Il expose Batman dans sa galerie d'art". www.lechorepublicain.fr.
- ^ Elections : Le casting flingueur des candidats, with Drouet, Jean-Baptiste, Première magazine, no. 301, 2002–03
- ^ "Le Street Art S'expose" (PDF). www.galerielj.com.
- ^ "Un nouveau réseau venu du NORD Rencontre avec Alexandre Gilbert, directeur de la galerie Chappe". www.artnet.fr. Retrieved 24 September 2024.
- ^ Piaton, Julia (4 February 2011). "Pop Culture à la Galerie Chappe – France-Amérique". france-amerique.com. Archived from the original on 26 February 2018.
- ^ "Les peintures de Pete Doherty". L'Express. 29 April 2008.
- ^ Gallix, Andrew (17 June 2020). "Marc Zermati: farewell to the 'hippest man in Paris'". The Guardian.
- ^ Seguret, Olivier. "Meet the Gondry's". Libération.
- ^ "A Sneak Peek of The First Museum Exhibition Dedicated to Lady Gaga". ELLE. 6 October 2010.
- ^ "Jarvis Cocker amuse la galerie". Télérama. 5 May 2009.
- ^ "Bill Plympton exhibe son cinéma fait main". Le Monde. 14 January 2009.
- ^ "Bill Plympton exhibe son cinéma fait main". 14 January 2009 – via Le Monde.
- ^ "CULTURE, MEDIAS, POLITIQUE… LES 100 QUI TIRENT LES FICELLES | Technikart". www.technikart.com. 30 November 2009. Archived from the original on 2 March 2016.
- ^ "Serge Klarsfeld rappelle l'histoire paradoxale de la Pologne et de ses juifs - The Times of Israël".
- ^ "Ces heures où Yann Moix a tenté de rester fréquentable". 31 August 2019 – via Le Monde.
- ^ Plenel, Edwy (28 October 2022). "Maurice Olender, antiraciste vigilant". Mediapart.
- ^ Zeitung, Badische (25 November 2022). "Im KZ Natzweiler-Struthof wurden auch Morde des Rassenwahns begangen". Badische Zeitung.
- ^ Rédaction, La (11 June 2023). "🔴 Conspiracy News #23.2023". Conspiracy Watch | L'Observatoire du conspirationnisme (in French). Retrieved 24 September 2024.
- ^ madelen, I. N. A. "Italiques". INA madelen.
- ^ Vairet, Florent; Marriault, Chloé (6 February 2024). "Comment vivre sans son smartphone ?". start.lesechos.fr.
- ^ Gilbert, Alexandre (16 May 2024). "Jean-Clet Martin : James Cameron et Ridley Scott (« L'art de James Cameron » à la Cinémathèque française)". DIACRITIK.
- ^ Gilbert, Alexandre (28 May 2024). "Valentin Husson : « Toute vie a pour condition la vie du Tout » (Les cosmologies brisées)". DIACRITIK.