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Centre Pompidou Paris
MUSÉE NATIONAL D'ART MODERNE - CENTRE GEORGE POMPIDOU | Place Georges-Pompidou
F-75004 Paris
artists & participants
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Emile Aillaud,
Jean-Michel Alberola,
William Alsop,
Carl Andre,
Ant Farm,
Guillaume Apollinaire,
Ron Arad,
Nobuyoshi Araki,
Arman,
Gianni Arnaudo,
Hans Arp,
Art & Language,
Antonin Artaud,
Richard Artschwager,
Jean Aubert,
Francis Bacon,
John Baldessari,
Balthus,
Georg Baselitz,
Jean-Michel Basquiat,
Hans Bellmer,
Joseph Beuys,
Alighiero Boetti,
Gottfried Böhm,
Jacques-Andre Boiffard,
Christian Boltanski,
Louise Bourgeois,
Ronan Bouroullec,
Constantin Brancusi,
Andrea Branzi,
Georges Braque,
Victor Brauner,
Marcel Breuer,
Marcel Broodthaers,
Stanley Brouwn,
Glenn Brown,
Günter Brus,
Andre Bruyere,
Eric Bulatov,
Daniel Buren,
Victor Burgin,
Alberto Burri,
Humberto Campana,
Fernando & Humberto Campana,
Enrico Castellani,
Philippe Cazal,
César,
Christo,
Francesco Clemente,
Constant,
Peter Cook,
Coop Himmelb(l)au,
John Coplans,
Joseph Cornell,
Rene Coulon,
Dennis Crompton,
Cui Xiuwen,
John Currin,
Salvador Dali,
Giorgio De Chirico,
Willem De Kooning,
Christian de Portzamparc,
Niki de Saint Phalle,
Decosterd & Rahm,
Luc Delahaye,
Sonia Delaunay,
Robert Delaunay,
Wim Delvoye,
Radi Designers,
Eric Dietman,
Braco Dimitrijevic,
Jim Dine,
Otto Dix,
Theo van Doesburg,
Peter Doig,
Robert Doisneau,
Cesar Domela,
Jean Dubuffet,
Marcel Duchamp,
Marlene Dumas,
Charles & Ray Eames,
Max Ernst,
Erro,
Didier Faustino,
Jean Fautrier,
Lyonel Feininger,
Robert Filliou,
Ian Hamilton Finlay,
Urs Fischer,
Fischli/Weiss,
Barry Flanagan,
Dan Flavin,
Lucio Fontana,
Sam Francis,
Edouard Francois / Duncan Lewis,
Andrea Fraser,
Yona Friedman,
Gerard Fromanger,
Massimiliano Fuksas,
M. Fuksas,
Garouste & Bonetti,
Gerard Gasiorowski,
Piero Gatti,
Jochen Gerz,
Diego Giacometti,
Alberto Giacometti,
Gilbert & George,
Richard Goldstone,
Natalia Goncharova,
Arshile Gorky,
Dan Graham,
Toni Grand,
George Grosz,
Marie-Ange Guilleminot,
Lucy Gunning,
Philip Guston,
Raymond Hains,
Mona Hatoum,
Raoul Hausmann,
Jean Helion,
Ron Herron,
Herzog & de Meuron,
Gary Hill,
Hans Hollein,
Jenny Holzer,
Gottfried Honegger,
Fabrice Hyber,
Cristina Iglesias,
Jörg Immendorff,
Toyo Ito,
Marcel Janco,
Jacobus Johannes Oud,
Jasper Johns,
Asger Jorn,
Donald Judd,
Anne Marie Jugnet & Alain Clairet,
Robert Julius Jacobsen,
Louis I. Kahn,
Wassily Kandinsky,
Yan Kaplicky,
Ellsworth Kelly,
Andre Kertesz,
Anselm Kiefer,
Kyonori Kikutake,
Yves Klein,
Pierre Klossowski,
Rem Koolhaas,
Gyula Kosice,
Joseph Kosuth,
Jannis Kounellis,
Frantisek Kupka,
Mikhail Larionov,
Laurel & Hardy,
Henri Laurens,
Erwine & Estelle Laverne,
Bertrand Lavier,
Louise Lawler,
Le Corbusier,
Fernand Leger,
Eugene Leroy,
Daniel Libeskind,
Eli Lothar,
Dora Maar,
Rene Magritte,
Kasimir Malewitsch,
Piero Manzoni,
Gordon Matta-Clark,
Ingo Maurer,
Paul McCarthy,
Allan McCollum,
Alessandro Mendini,
Mario Merz,
Henri Michaux,
Joan Miro,
Issey Miyake,
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy,
Piet Mondrian,
Francois Morellet,
Malcolm Morley,
Robert Morris,
Sarah Morris,
Olivier Mosset,
Studio Naco,
Bruce Nauman,
Marc Newson,
Emil Nolde,
Jean Nouvel,
Claes Oldenburg,
Meret Oppenheim,
Dennis Oppenheim,
Gina Pane,
Cesare Paolini,
Christos Papoulias,
Michel Parmentier,
Ed Paschke,
Gaetano Pesce,
Raymond Pettibon,
Francis Picabia,
Pablo Picasso,
Klaus Pinter,
Sigmar Polke,
Jackson Pollock,
Daniel Pommereulle,
R&sie,
R&Sie(n),
Arnulf Rainer,
Man Ray,
Martial Raysse,
Ad Reinhardt,
Gerhard Richter,
Daniel Richter,
Gerrit Rietveld,
Sophie Ristelhueber,
Diego Rivera,
Larry Rivers,
Francois Roche,
Aldo Rossi,
Mark Rothko,
Guy Rottier,
Georges Rouault,
Ulrich Rückriem,
Claude Rutault,
Saint-Florian,
David Salle,
Peter Saul,
Carlo Scarpa,
Christian Schad,
Thomas Schütte,
Rudolf Schwarzkogler,
Kurt Schwitters,
Inga Sempe,
Gino Severini,
Cindy Sherman,
Kazuo Shiraga,
Jack Smith,
Robert Smithson,
Peter Smithson,
Alison & Peter Smithson,
Pierre Soulages,
Chaim Soutine,
Daniel Spoerri,
Philippe Starck,
Otto Steidle,
Frank Stella,
Jana Sterbak,
Georges Tony Stoll,
Kolmac Studio,
Superstudio,
Sophie Taeuber-Arp,
Antoni Tapies,
Iakov Tchernikov,
Franco Teodoro,
Tetsumi Kudo,
Jean Tinguely,
Roland Topor,
Rosemarie Trockel,
Bernard Tschumi,
Cy Twombly,
UFO,
Zund Up,
Kees van Dongen,
Claude Viallat,
Bill Viola,
Wilhelm Wagenfeld,
Andy Warhol,
Robert Watts,
Michael Webb,
Joel-Peter Witkin,
Gil Joseph Wolman,
Wols,
Christopher Wool,
Jean-Paul Yungmann,
Remy Zaugg
press release
The Centre Pompidou will present its collections for the first time, in a thematic, interdisciplinary and non-chronological fashion. Using works from the largest collection of modern and contemporary art in Europe, Big Bang will bring together visual arts, video, photography, architecture, design, and literature to confront works and trends from the beginning of the 20th century through today. This exceptional exhibition is based on an original set of themes: the modern “big bang,” or the link between creation and destruction in 20th century art. Using an exhibition space of about 45,000 sq. ft., the Centre Pompidou proposes a new way of understanding the cultural phenomena of the XXth century.
Centered on the idea of innovation and revolution, the modern project placed itself from the beginning under the auspices of “positive destruction.” In the creative field, artists tried every mode of inversion of established values by putting representation in crisis and placing the art scene at the crucible of radical renewal: destruction of forms by Cubism, disfiguration by Expressionism, subversion of images by Dadaism, etc.
This new exhibition has been conceived around eight major themes: destruction, deconstruction, archaism, sex, war, subversion, melancholy and re-enchantment.
For this occasion, the Centre Pompidou will exhibit several new acquisitions, in particular, a major work by Bill Viola, Five Angels For the Millennium, 2001 shown for the first time in France.
I. DESTRUCTION
The Disillusioned Body The exhibition opens with several extreme representations of modern man: Francis Bacon, Willem De Kooning, Marlene Dumas, Alberto Giacometti, Pablo Picasso, Dennis Oppenheim, Daniel Richter, Thomas Schütte, Andy Warhol...
Disfiguration The destruction of the figure: Jean Dubuffet, Annette Messenger, Pablo Picasso, Francis Picabia, Chaïm Soutine, Georg Baselitz, Bruce Nauman...
Chaos Composition, dynamited or scrambled: George Braque, Robert Delaunay, Jasper Johns, Fernand Leger, Jackson Pollock, Christopher Wool, Francis Picabia, Sigmar Polke, Coop Himmelbau...
Passage to the Horizontal No more pedestal, the horizon: Carl Andre, César, Ulrich Rückriem, John Coplans, Superstudio...
Geometric Space Daniel Buren, Sonia Delaunay, César Domela, Charles Eames, Herzog and De Meuron, Donald Judd, Ellsworth Kelly, Piet Mondrian, Olivier Mosset...
The Abstract City Abstraction to the conquest of the world: Marcel Breuer, Vassily Kandinsky, Jacobus Johannes Oud, Gerrit T. Rietveld, Théo Van Doesburg...
The Grid Ron Arad, Piet Mondrian, Kurt Schwitters, Franck Stella, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Théo Van Doesburg, Claude Viallat, Sarah Morris, Louis Kahn, Alison and Peter Smithson...
Monochrome Ellsworth Kelly, Yves Klein, Kasimir Malevich, Gottfried Honegger, Allan Mc Collum, John Baldessari, Clairet and Jugnet, Bernard Tschumi, Inga Sempé...
II CONSTRUCTION/DECONSTRUCTION
Conceptualizing Concept and language: Guillaume Apollinaire, Art and Language, Marcel Duchamp, Andrea Branzi, Stanley Brouwn, Dennis Crompton, Jenny Holzer, Iliazd, Joseph Kosuth, Robert Morris, Rémy Zaugg...
White Room The white monochrome: Hans Arp, Enrico Castellani, Dan Flavin, Yves Klein, Le Corbusier, Piero Manzoni, Kasimir Malewitsch, François Morellet...
Transparency Vacuum and transparency: Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Wilhelm Wagenfeld, Raoul Hausmann, Marcel Duchamp, Andre Bruyère, Robert Julius Jacobsen, Gyulia Kosice, Laszlo MoholyNagy, Jean Nouvel, Robert Watts, René Coulon, Toyo Ito, Rem Koolhaas Erwine and Estelle Laverne...
Chance The laws of fate: Constant , Marcel Duchamp, Robert Filou, Francis Picabia, Man Ray, Gil Wolman, François Morellet, Peter Cook.
Mirror-Entropy Robert Smithson, Marcel Janco, Constantin Brancusi, Dan Graham, Raymond Hains, Robert Morris, André Kertesz... Marc Newson...
Aberrant Scale The change of scale: Marcel Duchamp, Richard Goldstone, Raymond Hains, Malcolm Morley, Gaetano Pesce, Saint-Florian, Yona Friedman, Kyonori Kikutake...
Violent Procedures Burning, cutting, crushing, compressing: Arman , Alberto Burri, Lucio Fontana, Niki de Saint Phalle... Ant Farm, Didier Fiuza Faustino, Massimiliano Fuksas ... Pleating: Ingo Maurer, Issey Miyake...
Fragmentation. Dislocation, dismemberment: Hans Arp, Daniel Buren, Henri Laurens, Kurt Schwitters, Gino Severini, Gordon Matta-Clark, Alessandro Mendini, William Alsop, M.Fuksas, Jean Nouvel, Otto Steidle...
The Soft Piero Gatti, Cesare Paolini et Franco Teodoro, Marie-Ange Guilleminot, Robert Morris, Claes Oldenburg, Barry Flanagan, Kol/Mac Studio...
III. ARCHAISM
Regression Jean Dubuffet, Jean Fautrier, Lucio Fontana, Kazuo Shiraga, Philip Guston, Franz Kupka, Eugène Leroy, Hans Hollein, Fernando et Humberto Campana...
Nature Film: Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty
Collection, Compulsion The Andre Breton wall, Christian Boltanski
The Savage Eye Asger Jorn, Michel Larionov, Mario Merz, Jackson Pollock, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Garouste & Bonetti, Edouard François / Duncan Lewis ......
The Sleep of Reason Illumination, madness, drugs: Antonin Artaud, Günter Brus, Salvador Dali, Lucy Gunning, René Magritte, Henri Michaux, Gaetano Pesce, Gilbert and George, Arnulf Rainer, Diego Rivera, Chaïm Soutine...
Childhood Gaston Chaissac, Francesco Clemente, Robert Combas, Vassily Kandinsky, Michel Larionov, Pablo Picasso, Jean Tinguely... Laurel and Hardy...
Hybrid The hybrid and the monster: Louise Bourgeois, Ronan Bouroullec, Constantin Brancusi, Victor Brauner, Max Ernst, Fabrice Hybert, Jannis Kounellis, Joan Miró, Francis Picabia, Studio Naço, Jean Nouvel, Ron Herron, Iakov Tchernikov...
IV. SEX
The Bride Marcel Duchamp, Jim Dine, Robert Doisneau, Lyonel Feininger, Niki de Saint Phalle, Rudolph Schwarzkogler...
The Prostitute Emil Nolde, Kees Van Dongen, Otto Dix, Pablo Picasso, George Rouault, Pierre Klossowski, Larry Rivers, Victor Burgin...
Voyeurism Balthus, Hans Bellmer, Diego Giacometti, René Magritte, David Salle, Nobuyoshi Araki, Cui Xiuwen...
Obscenity Film: Jack Smith’s Flaming Creatures
Transgression Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, Ed Paschke, Tetsumi Kudo...
Sacrilege Jean Fautrier, Jean Hélion, Arnulf Rainer, Peter Saul, Wim Delvoye, Jean-Michel Alberola, Raymond Pettibon, Joel Peter Witkin...
V. WAR
Revolution Erik Boulatov, Erró , Ian Hamilton Finlay, Michel Parmentier, Jörg Immendorff, Annette Messenger, Daniel Pommereulle, Gerard Fromanger, Philippe Cazal...
War Sophie Ristelhueber, Mona Hatoum, Luc Delahaye, Gottfried Böhm...
Pathos/Death Kasimir Malewitsch, Andy Warhol, Joseph Beuys, Yves Klein, Meret Oppenheim, Martial Raysse, Gina Pane, Carlo Scarpa, Cy Twombly...
Forgetting/Memory F rancis Picabia, Anselm Kiefer, Jochen Gerz, Toni Grand, Daniel Libeskind...
Vanity George Braque, Arshile Gorky, Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Eric Dietman, Francesco Clemente, Daniel Spoerri, Peter Fischli and David Weiss, Emile Aillaud...
VI. SUBVERSION
Pastiche and parody Victor Brauner, Francis Picabia, Pablo Picasso, Braco Dimitrijevic, Bertrand Lavier, Claes Oldenburg, Paul Mc Carthy, Philippe Starck, UFO, Radi Designers...
Anti-Museum Marcel Broodthaers, Joseph Cornell, Richard Artschwager, Gérard Gasiorowski, Louise Lawler, Bertrand Lavier, Claude Rutault, Andrea Fraser, Roland Topor, Hans Hollein, François Roche, Gianni Arnaudo...
Anti-architecture: Yan Kaplicky, Klaus Pinter, Hans Hollein, Michael Webb,Guy Rottier,Jean Aubert, Zund Up, R&Sie,...
Grotesque Ubu: Victor Brauner, Dado, Dora Maar, Rosemarie Trockel, Jean-Paul Yungmann. The grotesque portrait: Gino Severini, Natalia Gontcharova, Georg Grosz, Jacques-Andre Boiffard, Glenn Brown, John Currin, Urs Fischer...
VII. MELANCOLY
Unsettling Strangeness Fernand Leger, Eli Lothar, Marcel Duchamp, Andy Warhol, Wols, Tetsumi Kudo, Arman, Christo, Jana Sterbak, Georges Tony Stoll...
Melancholy Figures Giorgio De Chirico, René Magritte, Otto Dix, Christian Schad, Cindy Sherman... Décosterd and Rahm, Aldo Rossi...
Disappearance Ad Reinhardt, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Cy Twombly, Sam Francis, Antoni Tàpies, Pierre Soulages, Alighiero Boetti, Gerhard Richter, Gary Hill, Jean Nouvel, Hans Hollein, Christos Papoulias, Christian de Portzamparc...
Nostalgia Around Matisse’s La Tristesse du Roi: Peter Doig, Martial Raysse
VIII. RE-ENCHANTEMENT 1. Cristina Iglesias: Passage 2. Bill Viola: Five Angels for the Millennium, 2001
All the works presented belong to the permanent collection of the Centre Pompidou (including long-term loans from the FNAC), except for works of literature, and an exceptional loan from Issey Miyake.
PUBLICATION
Big Bang Destruction and Creation in the art of XXth century Format 22 x 28 cm., stitched, 176 pages, 186 illustrations in color Bilingual French-English 29.90 euros Under the direction of Catherine Grenier Following the structure of the exhibition, the catalogue will present eight chapters, which will be illustrated by masterpieces in the collection, placed in a new perspective