Camille Morando

Camille Morando is head of Information and Research on Modern Collections at MNAM-CCI, Centre Pompidou. Professor at École du Louvre (Paris), Mrs. Morando curated, with Jeanne Brun and Sophie Krebs, the monographic exhibition Victor Brauner, Je suis le rêve. Je suis l’inspiration, 2020, Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris.

The academic interest of Mrs. Morando in Brauner is an older one, her first contact dating back to her Ph.D. years. In 2002, as a resident at the National Institute of Art History (INHA, Paris), she was entrusted with publishing the Victor Brauner archives with Sylvie Patry, from which the reference volume Victor Brauner: Écrits et correspondances, 1938–1948 came out (Centre Pompidou/INHA, 2005).

The collection bequeathed by Brauner’s widow to the French state (a large part of whose artworks were donated to the MNAM-CCI with all the archives from Brauner at the Kandinsky Library, at Centre Pompidou) allowed Camille Morando to delve deeper into Victor Brauner’s biography and work. With over two decades of research behind her, Mrs. Morando is today one of the world’s most renowned experts on Victor Brauner. In 2019, Camille Morando edited and published with Arta Grafica a Victor Brauner 1903-1966 art catalog. It was a collection born from a never happened exhibition but meant as the artist’s first retrospective in his native country. Meanwhile, the volume has become a reference point in the literature on Brauner.