The BM endowment fund has the will, among its objectives, to promote and disseminate, in France and abroad, the work of the painter Jean-Marie BAROTTE and among its skills, the BM endowment fund includes the management of the artist’s inalienable collection as well as that of the works held by the JMB Archives in the context of the organisation of exhibitions, the management of image rights of the works, loan service to museums and institutions.

The research centre of the BM Endowment Fund, directed by Maria Cristina Madau, aims to work on the valorisation and decoding of artistic, philosophical, poetic and scientific language, verbal and non-verbal. He is particularly interested in these uncommon languages created because they are born from the need of those who, to express themselves, can only invent another language.

In this centre, the Endowment Fund creates the conditions for building bridges between the world of research and that of artists, intellectuals and the public, by supporting and stimulating the studies and enhancement of different languages and their paths. In the specific case of the artist Jean-Marie Barotte, his work and his career will be analysed and studied by a multidisciplinary team, from different points of view: formal, linguistic, anthropological, philosophical and psychoanalytic, and his work will be disseminated through exhibitions, catalogue publications, essays and conferences.