Serge Fauchereau
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Serge Fauchereau (born October 31, 1939, in
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) is a French scholar and
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responsible for the exhibitions ''Paris-New York'', ''Paris-Berlin'', ''Paris-Moscow'', ''Europa-Europa'', ''Futurismo'' and ''Futurismi'', among others.


Biography

After having been a professor of American literature at
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and
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from 1973 to 1976, Fauchereau became a curator of international exhibitions at the
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in Paris and other institutions, such as the
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in Venice, the Kunsthalle in Bonn, and the
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in London. He was also curator of the
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retrospective at the Museum of Art and History of Judaism in Paris, of ''Mexico-Europe'' at the Museum of Modern Art in Lille-Villeneuve d'Ascq, and the retrospective of German Cueto at the Reina Sofia National Museum in Madrid.In 2015 he curated the first ever museum exhibition dedicated to
Tristan Tzara Tristan Tzara (; ; ; born Samuel or Samy Rosenstock, also known as S. Samyro; – 25 December 1963) was a Romanian and French avant-garde poet, essayist and performance artist. Also active as a journalist, playwright, literary and art critic, c ...
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