Max Beckmann Lecture

Julie Mehretu in Conversation with Patricia Falguières

Julie Mehretu, an alumna and trustee of the American Academy in Berlin, speaks with Patricia Falguières about her work, process, and new exhibition at carlier | gebauer Berlin (16 September – 13 November 2021. Opening: Friday, 17 September 2021, 6 – 9 p.m.)

Patricia Falguières is Professor at the School for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS), Paris. She has published numerous essays on Renaissance philosophy and art, classifications, indexes and the birth of the museum in modern Europe (Les Chambres des merveilles, Paris, 2003), and mannerism (Le Maniérisme: Une avant-garde au XVIᵉ siècle, Paris, 2004). She has published the French Edition of Ernst Kris, Le style rustique (Paris, 2005), and Julius von Schlosser’s classic, Les cabinets d’art et de merveilles de la renaissance tardive (Paris, 2012). Her current research focuses on Renaissance technè, the inclusion of artistic practices in the Aristotelian order of knowing and making, and architectural theory.