This catalogue has been published on the occasion of the exhibition Gil J Wolman. I am immortal and alive organized by the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona and co-produced with the Fundação de Serralves – Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Porto. Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona 4 June 2010 – 9 January 2011 Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, Porto 11 February – 1 May 2011 EXHIBITION AT THE MACBA Director of the Project Bartomeu Marí Curators Frédéric Acquaviva Bartomeu Marí Head of Production Anna Borrell Assistant Curator Anna Garcia Munàrriz Registrar Aída Roger Registrar Administration Eva López Conservation Xavier Rossell Àlex Castro Architecture Isabel Bachs Xavier Torrent Alberto Santos Miguel Ángel Fernández Audiovisual Albert Toda Miquel Giner Jordi Martínez EXHIBITION AT SERRALVES Director of the Project João Fernandes Curators Frédéric Acquaviva João Fernandes Head of Production Isabel Braga Registrar Inês Venade Conservation Filipe Duarte Audiovisual Nuno Aragão Carla Pinto Installation Staff João Brites Manuel Martins Adelino Pontes Lázaro Silva PUBLICATION Editor Clara Plasencia Coordination and Editing Clàudia Faus Graphic Design Sandra Neumaier Photo Research Gemma Planell Translations Elaine Fradley (from Spanish and Catalan to English) Charles Penwarden (from French to English) Proof-reading Keith Patrick Pre-printing Cousins Printing Igol Publisher Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona Plaça dels Àngels, 1 08001 Barcelona (Spain) [email protected] t:+ 34 93 412 08 10 f:+ 34 93 412 46 02 www.macba.cat Distribution ACTAR - D Roca i Batlle, 2-4 08023 Barcelona (Spain) [email protected] t:+ 34 93 418 77 59 f:+ 34 93 418 67 07 www.actar-d.com © edition : Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA), 2010 © texts : the authors, 2010 © works : the artists; Jean Cocteau, Gil Joseph Wolman, Maurice Lemaître, VEGAP, Barcelona, 2010 © reproductions : Yves Bresson (pp. 45–49, 87); Tony Coll (pp. 39, 90, 94); Centre Pompidou- Mnam-Bibliothèque Kandinsky, Guy Carrard (p. 126); Collection Centre Pompidou, Distr. RMN / Philippe Migeat (pp. 58, 108–09); Collection Stéphane Kempa. Seconde Modernité (pp. 106–07); Courtesy of the Collection Galerie Lara Vincy, Paris (pp. 83, 89, 97); Courtesy of the Collection Le Moigne-Fullenbaum (pp. 72, 101); Courtesy of Re:Voir/EDA (p. 119); Grand Round Production (p. 62); François Lagarde (p. 67); Light Cone / Maurice Lemaître (p. 121); Tommaso Mattina (pp. 56, 92, 111); Vanessa Miralles (pp. 13–14, 16, 18, 20–21, 24–28, 30–31, 33, 37, 40, 42, 66, 71, 120, 123–24, 126, 128–29, 133); André Morin, Paris (p. 41); Thierry Ollivier (pp. 11, 15, 22–23, 32, 36, 47 bottom, 51–55, 57, 59–61, 63–65, 73–77, 79–82, 84–86, 88, 91, 93, 96, 98–100, 102, 105, 110, 112–17); PhotExpress (p. 34); Alice Truche (p. 78) All the rights reserved ISBN: 978-84-92505-40-1 DL: B-21329-2010 Typography : Stempel Schneidler, Berthold Imago Paper : Creator vol 135 g, Invercote G 300 g (cover) Photo p. 6 : Gil J Wolman, ca. 1951 Communication Sponsor Acknowledgments Arlette Albert-Birot, Paris Nicole Brenez, Paris Bertrand Charles, Dijon Éric Fabre, Brussels Maria Faustino, Paris Eva González-Sancho, Dijon Maurice Lemaître, Paris Thierry Ollivier, Paris And those who have preferred to remain anonymous We would like to express our deep gratitude to Charlotte Wolman.