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For the first time in the world, a museum will be displaying the feminine side of its own collections. This new presentation of the Centre Pompidou's collections will be entirely given over to the women artists from the 20th century to the present day.
elles@centrepompidou is the third thematic exhibition of the National Modern Art Museum's collections, following Big Bang in 2005 and the Mouvement des Images (Image Movements) in 2006-2007.
This will be the occasion for the institution, which has built up the very first collection of modern and contemporary art, to show its commitment to women artists, nationality and discipline taken together, and place them at the core of modern and contemporary art of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Key figures such as Sonia Delaunay, Frida Kahlo, Dorothea Tanning, Joan Mitchell and Maria-Elena Vieira da Silva rub shoulders with today's great female creators some of whom, including Sophie Calle, Annette Messager and Louise Bourgeois have been featured recently in monographic exhibitions at the Centre Pompidou.
The programming cuts across disciplines to take a deeper look at the place occupied by women in the culture of the last century, from literature to history of thought, from dance to cinema.
EXHIBITION ITINERARY
The show is hung in chronological order by themes. It brings together a selection of over 500 works by more than 200 artists, from the beginning of the 20th century up to the present day.
Pioneer
Level 5. Abstract, primitive, functional, urban, mixed media, surreal, amazons, objective... Eight rooms display the works of these pioneers who were at the forefront of change in all the artistic media: Shirley Jaffe, Joan Mitchell, Sonia Delaunay, Natalia S. Gontcharova, Hannah Höch, Frida Kahlo, Judit Reigl, Suzanne Valadon, Diane Arbus, Dora Maar.
Free Fire
Opening level 4. Niki de Saint Phalle, Karen Knorr, Rosemarie Trocket, among others, represent those who played historic roles, feminists, critics, photographers and performers, with their personal visions of reality.
Body slogan
Level 4. Precocious and inventive in photography and video, women artists have lately transformed the art of drawing, revitalising the very notion of body. ORLAN, Atsuko Tanaka and Ana Mendieta worked on the representation of the body and its stereotypes, notably that of the life drawing genre, as well as ways of staging it in their early performances.
The Activist Body
Level 4. Women artists played a key role in redefining visual and theoretical categories, and explored and commented on ways of bridging the abstract and the figurative, the organic and the systematic, the conceptual and the sensual. Typical among these was Louise Bourgeois, Agnes Martin, Vera Molnar, Valérie Jouve, Hanne Darboven.
A room of One's Own
Level 4.Borrowing Virginia Wool's title of her book dealing with questions about the conditions of art production, this part of the exhibition is gathering the works of artists exploring the notion of private space, weaving new connections between mental projections and exhibition space. Here we find Dorothea Tanning, Tatiana Trouvé, Charlotte Perriand, Sophie Calle.
Wordworks
Level 4. From story-telling to listing, through autobiography, quotations, legends and the many facets of the artist's book, creative women like Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger, Natacha Lesueur, Cristina Iglesias, Eija-Liisa Ahtila explore the various uses of language in art. Concept Art, urban myths, appropriation and post-modernism all use words as a medium while video installations redefine the idea of story-telling.
Immaterials
Level 4. Matali Crasset, Alisa Andrasek, Tacita Dean, Louise Campbell, Isa Genzken, Nancy Wilson-Pajic, Geneviève Asse and more leave us with one of the most striking characteristics of contemporary art, namely its disembodiment. The title refers back to one of the Centre Pompidou's cult exhibitions, "Les immatériaux" (Immaterials).
The English version of the exhibition catalog will be available late June 09
May 27 2009 - February 21 2011
11h00 - 21h00
Museum
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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
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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 21 2011
11h00 - 21h00
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The exhibition presents around fifteen of the artist's major sculptures belonging to the Centre Pompidou's collection, to which is added a selection of drawings that reproduce, in the form of diagrams, the real-life and dreamed layout of his native home in Loriol.
Finally, a selection of previously unseen archives belonging to the Musée d'art moderne of the City of Paris, and photographs of her legendary artist's studio on rue du Pot-de-Fer, complete the presentation.
Identified from 1960 onwards by his Demeures, strange sculpture-habitats designed to be visited "in the imagination" by the spectator; famous for being the author of Le Manteau [The Coat] (1962, see opposite), the first fabric sculpture from the history of modern art, Étienne-Martin (1913-1995) remained, despite this, a figure long excluded from the world of Parisian art, both debonair and enigmatic.
Today, the Centre Pompidou pays tribute to him through the presentation of a collection of fifteen sculptures, drawings, personal notebooks and photographs from his artist's studio. The exhibition presents around fifteen of the artist's major sculptures belonging to the Centre Pompidou's collection, to which is added a selection of drawings that reproduce, in the form of diagrams, the real-life and dreamed lay-out of his native home in Loriol.
Finally, a selection of previously unseen archives belonging to the Musée d'art moderne of the City of Paris, and photographs of her legendary artist's studio on rue du Pot-de-Fer, complete the presentation.
June 23 2010 - September 13 2010
11h00 - 21h00
Museum Gallery
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"It is through emotion that the photographic image engages spectators in this world. Not a soppy emotion but an emotion of power of the living through the bodies represented, and the body that will take up the space of the exhibition populated by these photo compositions/montages. After staying in Israel for a year, both in East Jerusalem and the autonomous Palestinian territories, Valérie Jouve presents a large visual composition which mixes montages of images with "the animated image" and the "documentary image". The artist focused on Arab communities and populations, by examining their relationship to the city and modernity. She makes the most of the space which is offered to her and endeavours to represent this reality by making it 'live' and 'feel'. "To re-enact a lived experience is, for Valérie Jouve, as important as expressing social, political, economic and urban issues."
This first personal exhibition by Valérie Jouve develops a reflection on the presence of mankind in the city. "I see this exhibition space as a large visual composition, which doesn't try to make this Arab world understood, but shouts out the lines and colours in an attempt to put the spectator in a physical state of tactility of this world".
Since the beginning of the 1990s, Valérie Jouve has built up a unique collection of photographic works on human presence in the city. For her exhibition at the Centre Pompidou, she is presenting around thirty photographs, taken in 2008 and 2009, outside the Western world.
In line with a photographic tradition close to that of the American, Walker Evans, Valérie Jouve captures figures between the documentary image and the staged image.
"To make felt what I feel. I don't want to make people understand." By this statement, from the Journal de Palestine published on the occasion of the exhibition, Valérie Jouve describes an intuitive approach. "En attente" ("Pending"), the title of the exhibition, evokes moments of rest, as well as the still poses which she demands of her "Characters". These are full-size photographs of men and women in urban settings: their frozen expressions and gestures, as if timeless, are more often than not magnified by a work of 'montage'. Furthermore, most of these photographs have been taken in the autonomous Palestinian territories that she doesn't represent directly, territories which are also "pending".
"My intention is also to frame a territory which is overflowing with existence, despite the media clichés", she says, adding: "I have to constantly distance myself. The images cannot do anything really, if not perhaps continue to bear utopias which light up my life." In the interview which follows, the artist goes back over her very particular approach, which makes her encounters with individuals the cornerstone of her work.
June 23 2010 - September 13 2010
11h00 - 21h00
Graphic arts gallery
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