Jean-Michel Othoniel / Francois Morellet
dal 1/3/2011 al 22/5/2011
Segnalato da
1/3/2011
Jean-Michel Othoniel / Francois Morellet
Centre Pompidou, Paris
In collaboration with the artist, the Centre Pompidou offers a retrospective of Jean-Michel Othoniel's plastic work entitled 'My Way'. Composed of an ensemble of 24 hitherto unseen works, the exhibition traces his career from the first, confidential, intimate and poetic works and then leads the visitor to discover his monumental works of spectacular dimensions which dazzle and fire the imagination. One of a series of retrospectives the Centre Pompidou is dedicating to major figures in contemporary art, 'Reinstallations' proposes a new look at the work of Francois Morellet, for the first time emphasizing the installation that has been an original and pioneering aspect of it.
Jean-Michel Othoniel
My Way
March 2 - May 23, 2011
The Centre Pompidou is the first major cultural institution to put on a one-man show of Jean-Michel Othoniel’s work from the beginnings of his career in 1987 to the present day.
In collaboration with the artist, the Centre Pompidou offers a retrospective of his plastic work entitled My Way. Composed of an ensemble of 24 hitherto unseen works, the exhibition traces his career from the first, confidential, intimate and poetic works and then leads the visitor to discover his monumental works of spectacular dimensions which dazzle and fire the imagination.
This journey is mapped out in different stages involving research and experimentation up until the mid-90s, when the artist began to use unpredictable, sensitive materials like sulphur, phosphorus and wax, weaving his way between beauty and repulsion. These original, rarely used materials provide the source of a reflection on the body, the suffering it endures and death. The artist explores the boundary between the organic world and the natural world and questions the limits of the genre. Then, after discovering glass, its colour and the infinite artistic possibilities of this medium which combines strength and fragility, Jean-Michel Othoniel’s work took on a more sculptural quality and acquired a new monumentalism.
The works fill the two spaces in the exhibition held in the heart of the Musée National d’Art Moderne, the Museum Gallery and the Graphic Art Gallery which have joined forces specially for this occasion. At the same time, there will be monumental works by the artist on show in the Children’s Gallery under the title Marvellous Reality.
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François Morellet
Réinstallations
March 2 - July 4, 2011
One of a series of retrospectives the Centre Pompidou is dedicating to major figures in contemporary art, Réinstallations proposes a new look at the work of François Morellet, for the first time emphasizing the installation that has been an original and pioneering aspect of it.
Favouring geometrical forms and aleatory procedures, Morellet has over the last sixty years developed a major body of work in constructive abstraction. A founder member in 1960 of the Groupe de Recherche d’Art Visuel (GRAV), he has since then worked in many different forms, from painting on canvas to the urban and architectural projects he calls “disintegrations”. The grid, the systematic development, the irony of the titles, the appeal to chance within codified constraints : these are central features of his work.
In collaboration with exhibition curators Alfred Pacquement and Serge Lemoine, the artist has selected some 25 works of varying scale that retrace the key inflections in his artistic development from 1963 to the present. All different, and of different materials — neon tubes, projected light, pieces of wood, silk-screened paper, adhesive tape on walls, stretched canvas, aluminium bars, metal sheet — they are all arranged in space, that is to say, installed.
These works were produced for different occasions and tailored to the site and circumstances of the intervention. Here they have been “reinstalled” in Galerie 2, on Level 6 of the Centre Pompidou, to create a diverse exhibition full of contrast and surprise, as capable of provoking visual shock as it is of affording pleasure by elegance of concept and beauty of effect.
The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue whose wealth of essays looks at Morellet’s installations over more than half a century, situating them in relation to the practice of installation that has become a common feature of the work of many later artists.
Image: François Morellet, L’Avalanche, 1996 36 tubes de néon bleus, fils de haute tension blancs — 400 × 400 cm Collection de l’artiste pour la présente version — Une première version de cette œuvre est conservée au Neues Museum de Nuremberg — © François Morellet © Adagp, Paris 2011
Opening 2 March 2011
Centre Pompidou
Place Georges Pompidou - Paris
Opening hours Every day except Tuesday, 11 AM – 10 PM
Admission fee