Satursday, July 31 2010
Exhibitions at the Center |
|  |
Occupying the Grande Galerie at Centre Pompidou from 5 May to 9 August 2010, the exhibition Dreamlands considers for the first time the question of how World's Fairs, international exhibitions, theme parks and kindred institutions have influenced ideas about the city and the way it is used. Duplicating and reduplicating reality through the creation of replicas, embracing an aesthetic of accumulation and collage that is often close to kitsch, these self-enclosed parallel worlds have frequently afforded inspiration to the artistic, architectural and urbanistic practices of the twentieth century, and may even be said to have served as models for certain contemporary constructions.
This multidisciplinary exhibition brings together more than 300 works :modern and contemporary art, architecture, films and documents drawn from numerous public and private collections.
Designed as an experience both playful and educational, it offers the first comprehensive exploration of its theme, inviting visitors to think about how the city is imagined and how this imagination finds expression in concrete projects.
World's Fairs, contemporary theme parks, the Las Vegas of the 1950s and '60s, twenty-first-century Dubai : all these have helped bring about a profound transformation in our relation to the world, our conceptions of geography, time and history, our ideas about the original and the reproduction, about art and non-art.
The dreamlands of the leisure society have shaped the imagination, nourishing both utopian dreams and artistic productions. But they have also become realities : the pastiche, the copy, the artificial and the fictive have become facts of the environment in which real life is led, and they serve as models for understanding and planning the urban fabric and its social life, blurring the boundaries between imagination and reality.
From Salvador Dali's Dream of Venus pavilion for the New York World's Fair of 1939 to such manifestoes as Venturi and Brown's Learning from Las Vegas and Rem Koolhaas's Delirious New York (which reads Manhattan through Coney Island's Dreamland), the sixteen sections of the exhibition will trace the history of a complex and problematic relationship.
May 5 2010 - August 9 2010
11h00 - 21h00
Gallery 1
| |
|
The Museum is dedicated to modern and contemporary art and covers two levels with a regular turnaround of works on display.
Contemporary collections: elles@centrepompidou
For nearly a year now, level 4 has hosted a thematic exhibition entitled elles@centrepompidou, dedicated to women artists.
In 2010, the exhibition received a new boost with the hanging of 120 new works and 35 artists. This second version offers the public several new large scale or spectacular installations, some thirty new artist books and presents some new acquisitions. Modern collections: new hanging
Level 5 is dedicated to modern art from the beginning of the 20th century till the 60's. After a period when the museum will be closed (from February 17th to March 16th) for re-hanging, the new exhibition of the modern collections will be partially opened to the public from March 17th.
The visitor can explore the historical period (1905-1945), where the main movements of the early 20th century are displayed – cubism, the birth of abstract art, Dada, the first surrealists –alongside monographic collections (Picasso, Léger, Delaunay, Le Corbusier…).
April 7th will see the full opening of the new hanging including the part consecrated to post-War art up to the 1960's, in the different fields making up the Museum's collection – drawing, photography, cinema, design and architecture. This will feature abstract and surrealist art after 1945, the new French realists and American neo-dadaists, kinetic art, as well as European design and architecture.
March 17 2010 - February 12 2011
11h00 - 21h00
Museum | |
|
A reconstitution of the Paris workshop where one of the masters of modern sculpture lived and worked.
January 27-25 2011
14h00 - 18h00
Galerie de l'Atelier Brancusi
| |
|