A collective work dedicated to the transmission of knowledge imagined by artists and craftsmen.
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For a year, craftsmen and visual artists met to design Toguna, an immersive work dedicated to the transmission of knowledge, and to imagine a common landscape. The passage from one work to another and the transition from one material to the next provide a surprise overall effect while inviting visitors to a lively exploration of the skills involved, from featherwork to dominoterie, from ceramics to blown glass… At the Palais de Tokyo, Toguna illustrates the fruitfulness of the inventive collaboration between contemporary art and crafts. This project is conceived thanks to the partnership of the Bettencourt Schueller Foundation.

With :
Maloles Antignac (ceramic artist), Pierre-Henri Beyssac (marker), Jean-Marc Ferrari (visual artist), Lina Ghotmeh (architect), Dimitry Hlinka (designer), Thomas Niemann (wrought iron worker), Martine Rey (lacquerer), François-Xavier Richard (domino maker), Frédéric Richard (gilder), Anne Laure Sacriste (visual artist), Thomas Teurlai (visual artist), Marion Verboom (visual artist), Julien Vermeulen (feather worker), Jérémy Maxwell Wintrebert (glassblower), Sèvres-Cité de la Céramique, Studio MTX

This book proposes a discovery of the place, comes back in texts and images on the genesis of this singular place and approaches the questions raised by the collaboration between art craftsmen and visual artists.
 

In this book
– A text by Jean de Loisy, president of the Palais de Tokyo
– A text by Sandra Adam Couralet, curator of the Palais de Tokyo
– An interview between Frédéric Dassas, chief curator at the Department of Art Objects of the Louvre Museum, and Jean de Loisy
– A text by Yves Le Fur, director of heritage and collections at the musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac (Paris)
– A text by Philippe Morel, historian of Renaissance art