Nicolas Gausserand Author

Brazilian painter Lucas Arruda’s (b. 1983) meditative compositions blur the lines between mnemonic and imaginative registers. His evocative landscapes are more a product of a state of mind than any particular locale. As he notes, "The only reason to call my works landscapes is cultural—it’s simply that viewers automatically register my format as a landscape, although none of the images can be traced to a geographic location. It’s the idea of landscape as a structure, rather than a real place."

Nicolas Gausserand is the adviser to the president at the Musée d’Orsay, Paris, and oversees international affairs and the contemporary program. Previously, he oversaw international relations and was the acting executive director of the American Friends of the Centre Pompidou, in Paris.