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24/4/2007

Airs de Paris

Centre Pompidou, Paris

The Centre Pompidou is celebrating its 30th anniversary with "Airs de seventy-three contemporary artists, architects and designers. The title echoes that of a piece by Marcel Duchamp, with a retrospective of whose work the Centre Pompidou opened in 1977.

Consisting of two parts, the exhibition presents works from the Seventies to the present, on the theme of the city and urban life. It treats Paris as a point of convergence, where the exhibited artists may have lived or worked or intervened.

The part devoted to the visual arts (1500 m2) is divided into ten sections organised around themes suggested by the works exhibited. These explore, through the artists' eyes, the technological, economic and social changes undergone by the city and the new communities and cultures that have emerged in it, together with the new perceptions of space and time associated with these transformations. The exhibition examines the notions of the risk society and of urban ecology, and offers responses to questions concerning the place of the individual (and its redefinition) in the urban space.

Among the artists shown are some linked with the Centre's history, such as Marcel Duchamp, Gordon Matta-Clark, Chris Marker, Gérard Gasiorowski and Raymond Hains. There are also new works by Tatiana Trouvé, Carsten Höller, Stéphane Calais, Jean-Luc Moulène, Daniel Buren, Saâdane Afif, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster and Nan Goldin, among others.

The part devoted to architecture, design, landscape and urban planning (500m2) offers an exhibition space that spirals up from a car park...to the surface of Mars.

This is organised in four sections, offering a glimpse of the imagined city of today and tomorrow, with works by Patrick Blanc, Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, Campement Urbain, Gilles Clément, Didier Faustino, Zaha Hadid, HeHe, Bruno Latour, Jasper Morrison and Philippe Rahm.

This dynamic shift from urban centre to periphery, from ground to air, enacts the relationships between the here and the elsewhere and between the inner landscape of the human mind and the universe. The exhibition thus proposes a forward-looking exploration of current innovation and experiment in architecture, landscape and design, evoking thematic correspondences and playful associations. Internet forumInternet forumInternet forumInternet forum

INTERNET FORUM
http://www.centrepompidou.fr/airsdeparis
The Centre has set up an internet discussion forum, intended by the curators as a background to the exhibition, which gathers together reflections on the themes of the exhibition by leading figures in the arts and in urban research. Moderated by philosopher Elie During and sociologist Laurent Jeanpierre, it is organised around four major themes: Forms and Cartographies, which looks at the way we think the city and attempt to structure it formally; Uses and Experimentations, which deals with the way in which urban space is used, appropriated and sometimes transgressed by its inhabitants; Escapes, a more conceptual thread that examines certain key ideas such as threshold, frontier, utopia, plan and place; and Constitutive Elements, which invites participants to think concretely about the meanings of certain clearly defined urban spaces such as streets and squares. Among the contributors are Nicolas Bouyssi, Jill Fenton, Antoine Hatzenberger, Salvador Juan, Christophe Kihm, Laurent de Sutter, Didier Talagrand, Jean Louis Violeau and Dork Zabunyan.

AROUND THE EXHIBITION
Spectacles Vivants
The Spectacles Vivants will present performance pieces involving visual artists, musicians and choreographers, among them a first-time collaboration between Xavier Veilhan and the Paris musical duo Air, on 6 and 7 April 2007, at 8.30 pm in the Grande Salle (also at the Tate Gallery, London, in May 2007), and an original work by Forced Entertainment (refering to "Douleur exquise" by Sophie Calle).

FORUMS DE SOCIÉTÉ
The Forums de société will organise a series of talks in May and a colloquium in September, intended to foster dialogue between artists, philosophers and sociologists on the question of the urban in contemporary life.

PUBLICATION
Published by Editions du Centre Pompidou and with a preface by Alfred Pacquement, the 360 pages exhibition catalogue has two essays by Christine Macel and Valérie Guillaume, an interview by Daniel Birnbaum with Daniel Buren, Philippe Parreno and Tatiana Trouvé, and essays by specialists on urban issues: Michel Agier, Francis Ascher, Bruce Bégout, Bruce Benderson, Anne Cauquelin, Elie During, Lieven de Cauter and Michiel Dehaene, Didier Houzel, Laurent Jeanpierre, Salvador Juan, Christophe Kihm, Daniel Kaplan, Bruno Latour, Laurence Mauderli, Thierry Paquot, Béatrice Preciado and John Urry and Thierry Marcou of the Fondation Internet Nouvelle Génération (FING).

PARTENARIAT
A series of accompanying events has been organised in partnership with the TRAM network. http://www.tram-idf.fr

Exhibition director:
Alfred Pacquement, Director of the Musée national d’art moderne/Centre de création industrielle, Centre Pompidou

Visual arts:
Christine Macel, curator at the Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Pompidou

Daniel Birnbaum, Director of the Staedelschüle, Frankfurt Design, landscape, urbanism and architecture:

Valérie Guillaume, curator at the Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Pompidou

Image: Gordon Matta-Clark, Conical Inter-sect (Etant d'art pour locataire, Quel Con, Quel Can ou Call Can), 1974 (capture) © Centre Pompidou, Adagp, Paris, 2007

Press officer
Anne-Marie Pereira phone +33 (0)1 44784069 fax +33 (0)1 44781302 e-mail anne-marie.pereira@centrepompidou.fr

On view contemporary

SAMUEL BECKETT
14 March - 25 June 2007
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ANNETTE MESSAGER
6 June - 17 September 2007
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PHILIPPE MAYAUX PRIX MARCEL DUCHAMP 2006
10 May – 13 August 2006
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Centre Pompidou
75191 Paris cedex 04
Opening times
Exhibition open every day ex. Tuesdays, 11 am — 9 pm
Admission
10 euros, concs. 8 euros Valid one day for the Musée National d'Art Moderne and all exhibitions
Free admission for young people under 18

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