Nothing is written

Nothing is written
In a couple of hours, it will start all over again,
The stars will lean down and stare from their faceless spaces,
And the moon will boot up on the black screen of the sky,
humping toward God-knows-what,
And we, with our pinched mouths and pinched eyes, the next morning
Will see its foot print like a slice of snow
Torn off over Mt.Caribou,
Looking for somewhere else to be born.
CHARLES WRIGHT

François Pinault - Mapping the Studio

François PinaultFrançois Pinault is a billionaire French businessman who runs the retail company PPR. He is a friend of former French President Jacques Chirac. His holding company Artemis S.A., owns (or owned), among others, Converse shoes, Samsonite luggage, Château Latour, the Vail Ski Resort in Colorado, and Christie's auction house. Artemis also owns Executive Life (now Aurora Life) in California, which was sued by policy holders when the company failed. Pinault owns one of the biggest collections of contemporary art worldwide. On the magazine ArtReview's 2006 list of most powerful people in modern art, he was ranked in first place. In 2006 he obtained the ownership of Palazzo Grassi in Venice to display the collection.

Mapping the Studio"Mapping the Studio" is a show in which the collection of François Pinault is the basis of the exhibition. Taking place on June 6, 2009, it is coorganized by the curators Alison Gingeras and Francesco Bonami. It includes 300 works from over 50 artists, including Robert Gober, Felix Gonzales-Torres, Mike Kelley, Cady Noland, Sigmar Polke, and Charles Ray. The presentation reflects Pinault’s over 30-year commitment to postwar art and his devotion to a group of contemporary artists whose works he has collected in depth.