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Centre Pompidou Foundation equiping itself!

Published on 13 July 2012.

Paris, 12 July 2012, Art Media Agency (AMA).

The Centre Pompidou Foundation, an American firm whose aim since 1977 has been to promote donations and to recommend the purchase of certain works, has appointed a new committee team. It consists of three members of the Foundation: this committee’s chairmanship went to Steven Guttman, president of Storage Deluxe in New York; the committee’s vice-chairmanship will be given to Estrellita Brodsky. Ann Colgin will act as the committee’s secretary while Scott Stover will keep his job as executive director.

This appointment occurred after former chairman Robert Rubin resigned. Since February, he had been in the heart of a conflict with Alain Seban, chairman of the Centre Pompidou. The conflict seems to have ended and measures have already been taken to relaunch the cooperation. Consequently, the foundation and the museum have agreed upon a certain number of points and share the will to fill in the museum’s gaps regarding oriental arts. A position of assistant curator has been set up to serve as a go-between between Latin American networks and the museum so as to acquire, through patronage and donations, works by contemporary artists from this part of the world. This programme will certainly be closely monitored by Estrellita Brodsky, art historian and exhibition curator specialised in Latin American art. Since 2006, the Foundation has already helped Centre Pompidou by donating €20m, and the new team hopes to do better. The first acquisition budget will be allocated next autumn during the FIAC week so that the Centre Pompidou can acquire a few works. The budget should reach a total of €200,000.

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Ricard Foundation Prize at Centre Pompidou

Published on 18 June 2012.

Paris, 15 June 2012, Art Media Agency (AMA)

Adrien Missika, winner of the Ricard Foundation Prize 2011, is on display at Centre Pompidou.

Since 1999, the Centre Pompidou has been welcoming each year the Ricard Foundation Prize which awards an emerging French artist.

In October 2011, a jury of professionals awarded the 13th Prize to Adrien Missika for his film Dôme. That way, the work follows the path of its predecessors, Didier Marcel, Natacha Lesueur, Tatiana Trouvé, Boris Achour, Matthieu Laurette, Mircea Cantor, Loris Gréaud, Vincent Lamouroux, Christophe Berdaguer, Marie Péjus, Raphaël Zarka, Ida Tursic et Wilfried Mille, Isabelle Cornaro and Benoît Maire and is now part of the Centre Pompidou Collection.

Missika films and photographs forgotten places and monuments. This way, he invents poetic stories staging images from natural phenomena and the mark they left in architecture. In Dôme, a young man explores one of the masterpieces of architect Oscar Niemeyer on the Tripoli International Fair area in Liban, whose construction started in 1963 but stopped because of the war in 1974.

The work has been on display in the room 18 of the Musée national d’art moderne since 23 May.

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Gerhard Richter at 80

Published on 6 June 2012.

Paris, 5 June 2012, Art Media Agency (AMA).

A touring retrospective has been organised to celebrate the 80th birthday of famous visual artist, Gerhard Richter. After its stay at the Tate Modern in London, then at the Neue Galerie Nationale in Berlin, the exhibition, whose 150 works enable visitors to see the artist’s work from the 1960s until now, is now stopping in Paris. This retrospective, which is taking place from 6 June to 24 September 2012,  aims to be as thorough as possible, and has loaned works from various sources: several museums, private collectors and even the artist himself.

From his first lino cuts of 1957, to his abstract work, to the drawings from the Halifax series (1970s), without forgetting his watercolour paintings and recent oil papers (displayed at the Marian Goodman Gallery in Paris), the Louvre is part of the important retrospective by displaying more than a hundred paper works by Gerhard Richter. This initiative occurred as part of the development of contemporary art at the institution.

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Centre Pompidou seeks new exhibition curator

Published on 29 May 2012.

Paris, 25 May 2012, Art Media Agency (AMA).

The Centre Pompidou in Paris is seeking a new exhibition curator for its design department. The post will become vacant in September.

The post is open to candidates with experience in organising exhibitions and managing design collections. The new curator for the Parisian museum will be tasked with managing the design department, along with the museum’s architecture and industrial future.

The Centre national d’art et de culture Georges Pompidou was set up in 1977. President Georges Pompidou launched the project of setting up a cultural institution in the capital solely dedicated to contemporary and visual arts existing in parallel to living arts. According to the museum’s own figures, almost 6 million visitors visit the Centre Pompidou each year.

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Gerhard Richter invading Centre Pompidou

Published on 24 May 2012.

Paris, 23 May 2012, Art Media Agency (AMA).

“I have nothing to say and I am saying it” is a quotation from John Cage that was later appropriated by Gerhart Richter. He is however one of the most praised contemporary artists today, whether by critics, institutions and by the art market. After the Tate Modern of London and the Neue Nationalgalerie of Berlin, it is the Centre Pompidou’s turn to celebrate the 80 years of this major figure of contemporary painting and to tell us of his art and of his background in a retrospective entitled “Panorama”.

Displayed from 6 June to 24 September 2012, the event offers a thematic hanging around a central room evoking the shape of the panorama. Three curators from London, Berlin, and Paris established a list of joint works. Afterwards, each defined in complicity with the artist a specific adaptation, in the light of the locations and audiences. Camille Morineau was tasked with scenography at the Centre Pompidou. She chose to structure the 150 displayed works around nine themes, by chronological order, and has been tackling Richter’s work from the 60s until today. The displayed works come from public and private collections from all over the world, and also from the artist’s collection.

Gerhard Richter was born in Dresden on 9 February 1932. He is a German artistic painter, whose work has been recognised since the 80s. He has worked with numerous supports, sculpture, drawing, photography, and painting over photography. However, it is painting he favours above all else. During an interview with Sir Nicholas Serota, director of the Tate, he said that he was “still very sure that painting is one of the most basic human capacities, like dancing and singing, that make sense, that stay with us, as something human.”

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“Cruel Puppets” at the Centre Pompidou

Published on 29 February 2012.

Paris, 27 February 2012, Art Media Agency (AMA).

From 22 February to 12 March 2012, artist and set designer Gisèle Vienne is to exhibit her “poupées cruelles” (“cruel puppets”) at the Centre Pompidou in Paris as part of the Nouveau festival.

Vienne is presenting forty life-sized puppets at the exhibition for the first time. Her installation, which bears the title Teenage Hallucination, consists of adolescent sized puppets, accompanied by photo portraits.

The artist first began to create puppets during her childhood. She would dress them as punk rockers or popstars, whereas today she collaborates with writer Dennis Cooper to present them as the protagonists of hypnotic and terrifying spectacles. Vienne stated in Le Monde that she knows that her work deals with morbid, edgy experiences, but that she feels a need to portray death, horror and violence.

During her studies at the Institut international de la marionnette in Charleville-Mézières, she met Jonathan Capdevielle, today a comic actor and puppeteer. He has featured in all of her shows since 2004, including Jerk, a solo featuring one chair and five puppets. The idea of Jerk was a reference to a series of murders in Texas during the 1970s.

A sound installation of Jerk and solo pieces featuring the five puppets will be included in the Nouveau festival in space 315 of the Centre Pompidou.

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Alan Seban to remain head of Pompidou Centre

Published on 14 February 2012.

Paris, 13 February 2012, Art Media Agency (AMA).

Alain Seban’s term as the head of the Pompidou Centre expires in April. The French President, Nicolas Sarkozy, recently announced that Seban will stay in the post for another three years. According to the Palais de l’Elysée, Seban was the only man for the job. This re-appointment rewards the head of French gallery for having landed several significant donations, such as the 1,200 contemporary drawings donated by the Guerlains, as well as coming to an agreement of shared ownership of a collection with the Whitney Museum in New York. Another achievement of his tenure has been the succesful establishment of the Pompidou Centre-Metz, as well as of the Mobile Pompidou Centre and the organisation of the “Danser sa vie” exhibition.

Alain Seban, a 46 year old former student of the prestigious Ecole Polytechnique, arrived at the Pompidou Centre in 2007. A man not renowned for his diplomacy, under his direct managment style attendance at the Pompidou has seen an gone up by 37%, whilst the institution’s takings have increased by 50%. The confirmation that Seban will stay in his post is the last cultural appointment that will be made by Sarkozy during this presidential term, with the next position to be appointed being that of the head of the Villa Medici next summer.

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The Guerlains donate 1,000 drawings to Centre Pompidou

Published on 7 February 2012.

Paris, 7 February 2012, Art Media Agency (AMA).

Florence Guerlain and her husband Daniel, grandson of Jacques Guerlain – great perfume maker and collector of impressionist works – have made a large donation to the French national museum of modern art, the Centre Pompidou.

La Croix announced the Guerlains’ donation to the Centre Pompidou on Friday. In total, 1,000 contemporary drawings from their private collection will join the French institution’s collections. The couple allowed this donation on a basis of co ownership and provided that the drawings concerned only fully joining the Centre Pompidou collections only after the couple’s deaths.

The Fondation d’Art Contemporain Daniel & Florence Guerlain, created in 1996 to promote drawing in art and to allow artists to pursue their creative work, disposes of a large collection of drawings, both contemporary and classic. The foundation no longer hosts exhibitions, but does offer an annual contemporary drawing prize. This Prize will be presented on 29 March 2012 at Salon du Dessin at the Bourse Palais. Three works – Cinema (2009) by Marc Bauer, What wind blow this Hither (2009) by Marcel Dzama and 55 Views Blue (2011) by Jorinde Voigt – have been selected.

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Anri Sala chosen to represent France at Venice Biennial

Published on 19 January 2012.

Paris, 18 January 2012, Art Media Agency (AMA).

The French minister of culture has selected Anri Sala to represent France at the next Venice Biennial in 2013.

Bertrand Lavier, Tatiana Trouvé (Duchamp Prize-winner of 2007) and Adel Abdessemed were also in the running to represent France at the festival.

Sala finds herself back at the biennial, having already been exhibited there as part of the Albanian pavilion in 1999, and for having won the Young Artist Prize in 2001 with Uomoduomo.

Born in Tirana (Albania) in 1974, Sala first studied arts at the Albanian Academy of Art before continuing her studies at the École Nationale des Arts Décoratifs in Paris in 1996, and finally moved to Le Fresnoy in Tourcoing until 2000.

Dammmi i Colori (Give me the colours) (2003), exhibited at the Tate Modern and 1395 Days Without Red, which has been shown in numerous museums and galleries are two of her best known films.

Sala is due to create an installation at the Pompidou Centre from 2 May to 6 August 2012.

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Visitor records show museums are popular

Published on 4 January 2012.

Paris, 3 January 2012, Art Media Agency (AMA).

Like every year, the beginning of January marks the time of museum reports and those of institutions all across the globe who anticipate on one result: the number of visitor attendance. The economic crisis doesn’t seem to be affecting the increasing number of visitors and some museum have already announced broken records for visitor attendance in 2011.

France continues to be a top destination for French and foreign tourists as they ensure to stop at certain museums and national monuments during their stay. Almost 27 million people have visited French museums in 2011, an increase of 5% from the previous year. The hundreds of national monuments (Notre-Dame in Paris, Mont-Saint-Michel Abbey, Arc de Triomphe, etc.) are doing better each year with 9 million visitors, an increase of 5.5%. The Parisian aura continues to shine internationally and the museums in the capital evidently obtain the highest rate of attendance, with the Louvre taking the lead by far on the French and global podium. In fact, it had announced the record-breaking figure of 8.8 million visitors, making it 300,000 more than the previous year. It holds a place over other internationally famous institutions including the British Museum and the Metropolitan in New York, these two main competitors. In 2010, both museums attracted 5.8 million and 5.2 million people, according to British newspaper, The Art Newspaper.

Although the Parisians have found a renewed interest in their iconic Louvre museum and its famous pyramid (+ 17% in 2011), the visitors in the galleries are mostly foreign (66 %). Most of the foreign visitors are from the United States, but also from emerging countries like Brazil, and of course China and Japan. Contemporary art is not to be outdone in Paris as the Centre Pompidou also welcomes the increasing number of visitors it hosted in 2011. At the end of December, the museum announced it had surpassed the results of the previous year (3.1 million visitors in 2010) and hoped to have reached a record-breaking 3.6 million visitors in 2011. Also, still in Paris, the Quai Branly museum received a 9% increase in attendance. The exhibitions “Dogons” and “Mayas” helped attract almost 1.5 million people during the last twelve months. Not far from Paris, the Château de Versailles is still a highly popular and attractive tourist destination, accounting for nearly 6 million visitors in 2011. The province is also affected by this positive report, as the young Centre Pompidou-Metz is in the lead with 500,000 visitors in 2011 after being open for one year and a half.

Other museums and inquisitions across Europe and the world have not yet revealed their visitor reports for 2011. In the UK, the National Gallery and its major exhibitions still attract crowds of visitors, for instance the most recent exhibition dedicated to the iconic Leonardo da Vinci did not disappoint and results should soon be revealed. This formula of “blockbuster” exhibitions seems to be favoured by the current policies of museums to attract more visitors and to prevent undesirable effects of the “crisis”. Temporary exhibitions also allowed a private museum like the Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid a record attendance of 1.07 million visitors, representing a dramatic increase of 30.4% from the previous year. After being affected by the current financial instability, Spain has attracted tourists, primarily the “Golden Triangle of Art” in Madrid – the museums Prado, Reina Sofia and Thyssen-Bornemisza. The Reina Sofia museum saw its attendance increase by 17% in 2011 with nearly 2.7 million visitors, and the Prado museum increased by 6.6%, with 2.91 million visitors which is still very satisfactory.

Given this report, we note that the policy pursued by the museums around the world since the end of the 20th century continues to apply: culture and tourism are now inseparable. Major museums want to find ways to attract more visitors by focusing on programmes for the “general public” and seeking to attract a younger audience. This formula seems to work, like the Louvre, which proudly announced that half of its visitors are under 30. However, it is evident that it is still the middle and upper classes who benefit substantially from this cultural way of life.

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Centre Pompidou fights against AIDS

Published on 1 December 2011.

Paris, 1 December 2011, Art Media Agency, (AMA).

The Centre Pompidou, in partnership with the AIDS association promoting the research against AIDS, is taking part in the research but in an artistic way.

Irish artist, Bryan McCormack, created the monumental installation Sons de ma vie, currently displayed at the centre until 5 December 2011, for the international day celebrating the fight against AIDS (1 December).

The artist covered the sixth floor, including the semicircular walls of the escalator tunnel, with thousands of plastic preservatives in different rainbow-colours in every floor.

The iconic motif of the preservative in its redundancy is increased and visitor focuses on the artist’s action. Besides, he faces the work in order to get to the highest floor of the museum. The installation has a puzzling effect with coloured lights and a sound track of a heart beating, referring to the title of the installation, Sons de ma vie (Sounds of my life).

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Christian Dotremont at Centre Pompidou

Published on 4 November 2011.

Paris, 4 November 2011, Art Media Agency (AMA).

For the first time in France, Centre Pompidou dedicates an exhibition to seventy “Logogrammes” by Christian Dotremont (1922-1979) which is currently taking place until 2 January 2012.

Christian Dotremont is a Belgian painter and poet who founded the famous group Cobra in 1948, along with Karel Appel, Constant and Jorn. Reflecting on the notion of language and writing he invented in 1962 “Logogrammes” – graphemes (symbol for a word) just as the Egyptian hieroglyphics. Made with Indian ink and through calligraphic inspiration, the “Logogrammes” are accompanied by texts of a variable length and function such as visual poems, called “drawings-words”.

This retrospective of Christian Dotremont’s work is an opportunity to discover one of the most talented Belgian artists of his generation. Presented in the Graphic design studio at Centre Pompidou, the exhibition is a part of the long action in favour of contemporary graphic production.

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Duchamp prize winner exhibiting at Pompidou

Published on 23 September 2011.

Paris, 23 September 2011, Art Media Agency (AMA).

Cyprien Gaillard (1980-), winner of the Prix Duchamp in 2010 is exhibiting from 21 September to 9 January at the Centre Pompidou.

This autumn, the artist – who lives and works in Berlin – will present his taste for the flight of time, ruins and destruction. At the beginning of his show, he has installed an ancient plate from Tunisia, placed in front of a contemporary glass screen. The artist’s persistent questioning of time can be seen through his objects that are not only distanced geographically, but also temporally. On the opening two pieces, the letters UR are written. This inscription relates to many things such as contemporary music or a famous Mesopotamian city. However, these initials are mainly related to a German prefix, well-known to the artist, that designate that something is ancient and is thus linked to this obsession with time, omnipresent in his work.

He also presents a series of polaroids that show different ruins from around the world. Even though these snapshots are not placed in a way that highlights historical and geographical ties, they help our reflection on time. We are thus, after the ruins, plunged into modernity and the confrontation of the two ages.

At the end of the show, the artist presents a Mède, referring to the ruins, to antiquity and to time. This is a relic that closes the route and that proves once and for all the dominant subject of the artist.

The young prize-winner is very interested by the questions of archaeology and modernity and in this exhibition at the Centre Pompidou he tries to make piece between them.

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JR’s “Inside Out” at Centre Pompidou

Published on 11 August 2011.

Paris, 10 August 2011, Art Media Agency (AMA).

As part of JR’s project “Inside Out”, the Centre Pompidou is hosting the largest photo-booth ever until 5 September. The event coincides with the exhibition “Paris-Delhi-Bombay”.

French contemporary artist JR was born on 22 February 1983. He exhibits black and white photographs in the street, “the greatest gallery in the world” as he calls it. His oeuvre combines art, motion, activism, liberty, identity and limitations. He is mostly known for his portraits of women from the slums of Rio and the shanty-towns of Kenya that he displayed on the walls of the city. In October 2009, armed with a 28 millimetre lens, he took distorted portraits and realised a huge collage on bridges and banks of Saint Louis Island in Paris.

The project “Inside Out” aims to collect photographs of volunteers and subsequently display their portrait in the city, illustrating the diversity of men and women on earth. Participants have to wear a bindi on their forehead, symbolising the third eye, the eye of knowledge.

The photo-booth is free, but participants have to queue for at least an hour to receive the 1mx1.50m poster. Printed at five metres above ground level, the poster then falls down. Photographs can also be sent to the website insideoutproject.net and the poster will then be sent by mail.

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Death of Mexican artist Gilbert Luján

Published on 26 July 2011.

Pomona, California, 26 July 2011, Art Media Agency (AMA).

Mexican artist Gilbert Luján, also known as Gilbert “Magú” Luján, died this Sunday at the age of 70 of cancer. He was a painter, sculptor, muralist and supporter of Mexican art and artists.

He was a pioneer of the chicano art movement created in the 1960s by his collective, “Los Four”, composed of Carlos Almaraz, Beto de la Rocha, Frank Romero and himself. Judithe Hernandez joined the group in 1973. He was born in 1940 in California, of Mexican descent, and chose to promote Mexican art. He was one of the first members of the chicano movement to gain international renown. He was inspired by the cities and districts where he grew up and lived, such as Fresno and Los Angeles. He used his art to make an impact, in the hope of changing society.

He became interested in art after his military service and in 1969 decided to study sculpture. At the art school,he met many other students and artists and organised numerous cultural associations to encourage people to create art.

He exhibited in several major American institutions, such as LACMA in Los Angeles, Corcoran Gallery in Washington, Brooklyn Museum in New York and Houston Museum of Fine Arts. He taught at Fresno City College and Cal Poly Pomona. He decorated the subway station “Hollywood and Vine”.

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Edvard Munch at Centre Pompidou

Published on 18 July 2011.

Paris, 18 July 2011, Art Media Agency (AMA).

The Centre Pompidou presents its new exhibition “Edvard Munch, l’œil moderne” on view from 21 September 2011 to 9 January 2012.

The event dedicated to painter Edvard Munch will depict a little known aspect of his work but will still feature pictorial works. The exhibition aims to show that the painter used many modern processes like photography and cinema and was up-to-date on the developments that took place in his time.

The exhibition will gather previously unseen works including paintings, photographs, works on paper, films and one of his rare sculptures. Edvard Munch is shown in a modern and more intimate light. He completed many self-portraits, which was unusual for the time, and viewers will discover not only the artist but also the man – his likes, inclinations and humanity.

He is quoted in Slash magazine as saying: “I have learned a lot from photography. I have an old camera with which I took many photos of myself. The results are often surprising. One day, when I am old and have nothing to do but write my autobiography, then all my self-portraits will be exhibited.”


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Photography: Centre Pompidou acquires Christian Bouqueret collection

Published on 11 July 2011.

Arles, 11 July 2011, Art Media Agency (AMA).

The Rencontres d’Arles has been making headlines in the art world, as the Centre Pompidou announced on 9 July 2011 that it would be acquiring the Christian Bouqueret Collection, comprising more than 6,700 photographs. The purchasing price has not been revealed, but the Yves Rocher cosmetics company is financing the operation and will receive a tax deduction of 90% of the amount spent on the collection.

Christian Bouqueret spent his entire life collecting art and devoted himself to acquiring the work of photographers who worked in Paris in the 1920’s and 1930’s, including unknown and famous photographers such as Man Ray, Claude Cahun, Dora Maar, Germaine Krull, François Kollar, Brassaï, Kertész, Laure Albin-Guillot, Emmanuel Sougez, René Jacques, Jean Moral and Raoul Ubac.

To complete his collection, Bouqueret did not hesitate to buy the works of an entire workshop or artists deemed second-rate. He wished to revive the memory of these forgotten figures; organising numerous exhibitions, publishing monographs and undertaking research. He initiated the “Paris capitale photographique, 1920 – 1940” exhibition at Jeu de Paume in 2009.

“The Christian Bouqueret Collection completes our collection,” explained Quentin Bajac, one of the curators of the museum to French daily newspaper Le Monde. The entire set of photographs will be restored and displayed at the Centre Pompidou in 2012.

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Increased attendance at cultural sites in Paris

Published on 6 July 2011.

Paris, 6 July 2011, Art Media Agency (AMA).

The tourism bureau in Paris conducted an investigation into Parisian cultural sites’ attendance rates in co-ordination with the Congrès de Paris. The press release states that the sixty-three analysed sites received 71.6 million visitors in 2010, an increase of 0.6% on 2009.

Eighty-five exhibitions and temporary events drew more than 10.2 million people. The Monet retrospective at the Grand Palais alone was visited by more than 930,397 spectators, breaking the previous record, which was set thirty years ago.

Some establishments showed remarkable improvement: The attendance rate of the Musée de la Vie Romantique (Museum of Romantic Life) increased by 73%, that of the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire du Judaïsme (Museum of Jewish Art and History) by 46.9% and of the Musée Delacroix (Delacroix Museum) by 44.1%.

The Notre Dame was the most-visited cultural site in Paris in 2010 with 13,650,000 visitors. The other nine sites are:

  • Basilique du Sacré Coeur – 10,500,000 visitors;
  • Musée du Louvre – 8,346,361 visitors;
  • Eiffel Tower – 6,700,000 visitors;
  • Centre Pompidou – 3,130,000 visitors;
  • Musée d’Orsay – 2,985,510 visitors;
  • Cité de Sciences et de l’Industrie – 2,867,000 visitors;
  • Chapel of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal – two million visitors;
  • Museum d’Histoire Naturelle (Natural History Museum) – 1,951,456 visitors ;
  • National Galleries of the Grand Palais – 1,542,017 visitors.

In the temporary exhibition sector, the Grand Palais is in pole position with Claude Monet (1841 – 1926) and “Turner et ses peintres” (Turner and his painters). The Centre Pompidou was in second position with “Mondrian/De Stijl”, drawing 401,021 visitors over four months. The other popular temporary exhibitions were:

  • “Edvard Munch ou l’anti-Cri” (Edvard Munch or the Anti-scream) at the Pincothèque (385.000 visitors);
  • “Lucian Freud : l’Atelier” (Lucian Freud: The Atelier) at the Centre Pompidou (359.089 visitors) ;
  • “Basquiat » at the Musée d’Art moderne de la ville de Paris (352,000 visitors) ;
  • “Patrick Jouin, la substance du design” (Patrick Jouin, the substance of design) at the Centre Pompidou (315,550 visitors);
  • Yves Saint-Laurent Retrospective  at the Petit Palais (294,500 visitors) ;
  • “Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904), l’histoire en spectacle” (Jean-Léon Gérôme: the history of the world in performances)  at the musée d’Orsay (278,679 visitors) ;
  • “Erro, 50 ans de collage » (Fifty years of collage) at the Centre Pompidou (271,707 visiteurs).

The Musée du Louvre is in twelfth place with “Sainte Russie” (Holy Russia) which attracted 263,308 visitors.

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“Brancusi, film, photographie: Images sans fin” exhibition in Paris

Published on 1 July 2011.

Paris, 1 July 2011, Art Media Agency (AMA).

The Monte-en-l’Air bookstore and art centre –and publishing house- Le Point du Jour presents “Brancusi, Film et Photographie”, a book co-edited with the Centre Pompidou. The 232-page work is dedicated to research on the Romanian artist, who was born in 1876.

The book will be officially presented on 2 July 2011 at 6pm at Monte-en-l’Air, coinciding with the “Brancusi Film Photographie, Images Sans Fin” (Brancusi Film Photography, Endless Pictures) exhibition at the Centre Pompidou. The event will be hosted daily at the National Museum of Modern Art from 29 June to 12 September 2011, from 11am to 9pm.

“Brancusi Film Photographie, Images Sans Fin” aims to show that the sculptor Brancusi also worked in the fields of photography and cinema. The artist’s studio was left to the Centre Pompidou which now owns several photographs and negatives by the artist.

The influence of Man Ray and Edward Steichen on Brancusi’s art is palpable in the artist’s photos. His pictures are a continuation of his sculptures.

As shown by the title of the exhibition, the artist also took an interest in experimental films. Brancusi made several of them, featuring his friends dancing in his studio or a train travelling in Romania.

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Acquisitions by Cabinet d’art graphique at Centre Pompidou to be exhibited

Published on 9 June 2011.

Paris, 9 June 2011, Art Media Agency (AMA).

From 29 June to 12 September 2011, the Centre Pompidou is exhibiting the new acquisitions of its Cabinet d’Art Graphique. They will be presented chronologically.

Seventy works by approximately fifty artists will de displayed, including drawings by Picasso and Gris that have been donated to the museum, other creations offered by the Société Kandinsky, three watercolours from the Kojève Collection, drawings from the Breton Collection and pieces by Gorky, Matta, Morris and Hockney.

The Cabinet d’Art Graphique reopened in 2002, after closing in 2000 for important renovation work. The Bibliothèque Kandinsky also reopened to the public in 2002. The Cabinet was set up in 1975 and featured more than 18,500 works on paper in 2002. From 2006 to 2011, the Cabinet has acquired 546 new pieces.

The Cabinet aims to select remarkable contemporary works and present them in an annual exhibition.  A second event focusing on the collection’s historic pieces as well as two small thematic exhibitions are also hosted. The Cabinet can be visited by researchers and curators by appointment only.

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