Jean-Yves Marin

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Jean-Yves Marin

Jean-Yves Marin (* 1955 in Caen ) is a French medieval archaeologist and museum director.

Life

Marin studied at the University of Caen and graduated in 1980 with the Diplôme d'études approfondies . His scientific specialty is the urban archeology of the Middle Ages . As the urban archaeologist of Caen, he led numerous excavations and then became a conservator, then director of the Musée de Normandie there until 2009.

In 2009 he was appointed director of the Musée d'art et d'histoire de Genève and its various locations (main building, Musée Rath , Maison Tavel , Cabinet d'arts graphiques and Bibliothèque d'art by Patrice Mugny, Minister for Culture and Sport of the City of Geneva) et d'archéologie) with the task of implementing the focus on the general public as indicated by an audit by the Parisian cultural engineers Eurologistiques. Both his nomination and this new line immediately met with great resistance. Several prominent members of the board of directors of the Friends' Associations, such as the collectors Jean Bonna and Jean-Paul Barbier-Mueller, demonstratively withdrew from any further support for the Musée d'art et d'histoire de Genève. Officially, the Friends' Associations never welcomed Jean-Yves Marin as director, but stuck to their demand for the rehabilitation of Caesar Menz, who had been dismissed three weeks before Patrice Mugny was appointed, as he could not be accused of serious errors.

Nevertheless, from 2010 to 2016, the city of Geneva entrusted Marin with the defense of the renovation and expansion project of the Musée d'art et d'histoire in Geneva by the office of the architect Jean Nouvel, together with the controversial partnership agreement with the oil billionaire Jean-Claude Gandur since it was signed in 2010 . Since the project was rejected in a referendum in February 2016, Marin has been taking part in the preparations for a new project. However, the main responsibility for this now lies in the hands of the former directors of the Ethnological Museum and the International Red Cross Red Crescent Museum in Geneva, Jacques Hainard and Roger Mayou, respectively, until a successor has been found for Marin, who will retire in autumn 2019.

He is a member of the Scientific Council of the Cité du Vin in Bordeaux , the Orientation Committee for the renovation of the Musée de l'Homme in Paris, the Scientific Council of the Mémorial de Caen pour la Paix and the Scientific Council of the Master of Advanced Studies (MAS ) en conservation du patrimoine et muséologie of the University of Geneva .

Marin has also been an associate professor at the Université Senghor d'Alexandrie since 1996 and teaches at various European universities, in particular on deontology , a topic for which his assessments are recognized in the francophone world.

Marin became involved very early on in the ICOM environment and was President of the French Committee (1992–1998), then President of the Comité International des Musées d'archéologie et d'histoire (1998–2004) and a member of the Comité International de déontologie des Musées ( 1998-2004). He helped draft the ICOM Code of Ethics, which was published in 2007.

Exhibitions

As curator and director of the Musée de Normandie, Marin was involved in numerous regional and international exhibitions on the history of the Normandy between 1992 and 2009, including:

  • «Les barbaren et la mer. Les migrations des peuples du nord-ouest de l'Europe du Ve au Xe siècle »(Caen 1992, curated by Jean-Yves Marin)
  • «I Normanni popolo d'Europa. 1030–1200 »(Rome - Venice 1993, curated by Mario d'Onofrio)
  • "Les Ailes de Dieu" (Bari - Caen 2000, curated by Marco Bussagli and Mario d'Onofrio with the collaboration of Sandrine Bertholet and Jean-Yves Marin)
  • «Les Normands en Sicile. XIe-XXIe siècles. Histoire et légend »(Caen 2006, curated by Antonino Buttitto and Jean-Yves Marin with the assistance of Jean-Marie Levesque)
  • «Chefs-d'œuvre du gothique en Normandie. Sculpture et orfèvrerie du XIIIe au XVe siècle »(Caen - Toulouse 2008, curated by Catherine Arminjot and Sandrine Bertholet)

As director of the Musée d'art et d'histoire in Geneva, Marin coordinated its exhibition program from 2009 to 2019. During his mandate, internal and external curators worked on around fifty exhibitions and accrochages, including:

  • "Les sujets de l'abstraction" (Musée Rath - 2011, curated by Eric de Chassey)
  • «L'horlogerie à Genève» (Musée Rath - 2011/12, curated by Estelle Fallet)
  • "Héros Antiques" (Musée d'art et d'histoire -2013/14, curated by Marielle Martiniani-Reber, Matteo Campagnolo and Giselle Eberhard Cotton)
  • "Courbet, les années suisses" (Musée Rath - 2014/15, curated by Laurence Madeline)
  • «Byzance en Suisse» (Musée Rath - 2015/16, curated by Marielle Martiniani-Reber)
  • «Devenir suisse» (Maison Tavel - 2015/16, curated by Alexandre Fiette)
  • "Jean-Pierre Saint-Ours" (Musée d'art et d'histoire - 2015/16, curated by Anne de Herdt and Laurence Madeline)

Since arriving at the Musée d'art et d'histoire, Jean-Yves Marin has developed a national and international exhibition policy for the museum's collections. Marin he relied on various partnerships for these projects. The exhibition "Geneva at the Heart of Time - The Origin of Swiss Watchmaking Culture", conceived by Estelle Fallet, was honored in China in May 2016 with the title Best Cooperation Award for the best international exhibition in China.

Fonts (selection)

Marin is the author of around fifty articles and reports on archaeological excavations (including in the journals Annales de Normandie, Gallia, Archeologie médiévale) and numerous contributions to exhibition catalogs.

  • La représentation de l'Europe dans les expositions in Museum International No. 211, 2001.
  • What is history museum in Europe today? in The issues and challenges ou urban history museums , Seoul 2003.
  • Le statut des restes humains, les revendications internationales in Le patrimoine culturel religieux , L'Harmattan, Paris 2008.
  • Rendre le patrimoine colonial in Musées et collections publiques de France No. 254, 2008.

Jean-Yves Marin is also the author of numerous articles in the French newspapers Le Monde , La Croix and Le Figaro as well as in the Swiss newspapers Le Temps and Tribune de Genève .

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Course à l'éthique au Musée olympique | L'Hebdo ( fr )
  2. ↑ La programmation de musée, un exercice d'équilibrisme | MAH ( fr-FR )
  3. ↑ Estelle Fallet: “Geneva at the Heart of Time” primée en Chine in the blog des Musées d'art et d'histoire , May 24, 2016
  4. ↑ Jean-Yves Marin: Un musée postcolonial . June 20, 2006.
  5. ↑ Jean-Yves Marin: Les musées sont-ils des prédateurs?. . November 16, 2006.
  6. ↑ Jean-Yves Marin: Comment réagir aux destructions volontaires du patrimoine culturel? . May 20, 2015.
  7. ^ Remise à M. Jean-Yves Marin, Director of the Musées d'Art et d'Histoire de la Ville de Genève, des insignes d'Officier de l'Ordre national du Mérite
personal data
SURNAME Marin, Jean-Yves
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French medieval archeologist and museum director
DATE OF BIRTH 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Caen