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19/9/2011

Two exhibitions

Centre Pompidou, Paris

Cyprien Gaillard
Prix Marcel Duchamp 2010

curated by Angela Lampe and Clément Chéroux

Winner of the Marcel Duchamp prize (awarded to most innovative artists of the contemporary art scene), Cyprien Gaillard will present his exhibition at Centre Pompidou until the 9th of January.
Ancient or modern ruins, restored or left to decay, are of no difference for Cyprien Gaillard who tries to shake us up through his installations, allowing us to confront the infinite cycle of building-demolishing-rebuilding that is inherent to mankind and to our relationship with the history of its vestiges. From remains in the neighborhoods of Detroit to urban renewal, from urban devolvement that started in Europe and in the USA to Egyptian archeological sites and Galsgow, Cyprien Gaillard's Show is conceived as a moving mosaic which tries escape time and space.

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Edvard Munch
L'Oeil moderne 1900-1944

curated by Jean-Pierre Bordaz

Edvard Munch was entirely “modern”: such is the argument of this exhibition of almost 140 of his works. Including some 60 paintings, 30 works on paper and 50 vintage photographs, as well as a number of films and one of the artist’s very rare sculptures, “Edvard Munch, l’œil moderne” throws new light on the work of this celebrated Norwegian painter (1863-1944) by showing how his interest in all the forms of representation of his time nourished his inspiration and profoundly shaped his art. His experience of photography and film, his reading of the illustrated press and his work in the theatre all fed into his work, endowing it with the utter modernity that this exhibition seeks to reveal.

Contrary to the received opinion that sees in Munch a nineteenth-century artist, tormented and reclusive, the exhibition shows that he was aware of the aesthetic debates of his time, engaged in a constant dialogue with the most contemporary forms of representation – photography, film and theatre. He took photographs and shot films himself, being perhaps the first to essay a self- portrait using a camera held in his outstretched hand: “I have learnt a great deal from photography. I have an old camera with which I have taken countless pictures of myself, often with amazing results. One day, when I am old and have nothing better to do than to write my autobiography, all my self-portraits will see the light of day again” (Edvard Munch, interviewed by Hans Tørsleff, 1930). Displayed in twelve rooms and organised around nine themes the exhibition presents an uncommonly rich and comprehensive selection of major paintings and works on paper, alongside Munch’s own experiments with photography and film, looking at the artist’s habit of returning to the same motifs, and showing how his experience of cinema and of the illustrated press, and his own work for the new, intimate “chamber drama” produced a new spatial relationship between the viewer and the pictorial motif presented in close-up. The impact of these modern images, underlined by Munch’s own experiments in photography and film, can also be seen in his use of effects of transparency, forms of energy and modes of narrative specific to these new media.

The exhibition has been organised in close collaboration with the Munch Museum in Oslo. Most of the works come from there, though some have been loaned by the National Museum, Oslo, the Bergen Museum of Art and other collections abroad. It is accompanied by a substantial catalogue, to be published by Editions Centre Pompidou, with more than a dozen essays by Munch specialists from across the world, as well as other original research and French translations of unpublished texts by the artist.

Curated by Angela Lampe and Clément Chéroux, curators at the Centre Pompidou, the exhibition “Edvard Munch, l’oeil moderne” will close on 9 January 2012, to move on to the Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt (9 February - 13 May 2012) and then to Tate Modern, London (28 June - 12 October 2012).

The exhibition will draw together a substantial selection of major works: fifty-nine of the best-known paintings, forty-nine photographs, and also works on paper, films, and one of the artist’s rare sculptures. The exhibition Edvard Munch. L’oeil moderne relates the artist’s 20th-century pictorial works to his interest in his age’s most modern forms of representation: photography, cinema and more. Often presented as a 19th-century painter, as a Symbolist or proto-Expressionist, Munch proved to be a truly 20th-century artist, intimately acquainted with modernity and with the avant-garde. The exhibition catalogue’s plentiful, high-quality reproductions are accompanied by essays from the world’s leading authorities, making it the new standard reference in the French language.

The exhibition has been organised in collaboration with the Munch Museum


Image: Cyprien Gaillard, UR, Underground Resistance and Urban Renewal, 2011, sérigraphies sur verre et marbre fossile noir 241 x 246,5 cm chaque © Cyprien Gaillard. Courtesy Galerie Bugada & Cargnel, Paris

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Sébastien Gravier tel 00 33 (0)1 44784856 e-mail sebastien.gravier@centrepompidou.fr

Vernissage 20 September h 6p.m. to 9p.m.

Centre Pompidou
75191 Paris cedex 04
Opening
11am – 9pm every day, except Tuesday
Admission €10 - €12, depending on time, concessions €8 - €9
métro Hôtel de Ville, Rambuteau

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