Alain Dominique Perrin is the President of the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, which he founded in 1984. In 1986, he wrote a report on French Patronage, which led to the Law on the Development of Patronage (1987). Emanuele Coccia is an Italian philosopher close to the Fondation Cartier since 2019. He took part in the exhibition Trees, and the catalogs Damien Hirst: Cherry Blossoms, Luiz Zerbini: Botanica and Fabrice Hyber: The Valley.