Masterpieces from the Pompidou Centre show Hermitage
 

Masterpieces of the Hermitage Centre Pompidou show

05/10/201002: 12

MOSCOW, Oct. 5 - RIA Novosti, Svetlana Yankina. The "Centre Pompidou in the State Hermitage Museum, which displays a variety of forms of the French center with contemporary art opened in St. Petersburg on Tuesday, said in an interview with RIA News curator of the "Hermitage 20/21" Dmitry lake.

"The main objective of the project - the most fully represent all the activities of the Centre Pompidou, the show is the best, but its main result - an experiment, as contemporary art can be seen in the classical museum, and how they affect each other" - shared lake.

The project itself consists of two parts: the exhibition and festival, which in the Nicholas Hall presents design pavilions Heimo Zoberniga, Jorge Pardo, Sophie Perez and Xavier Bussirona.

According to the source, these pavilions are themselves works of art that are in a new way by looking at the Hermitage Rooms. For example, one pavilion consists of a corridor, a tight fabric, which overlooks the front door into the adjacent room. Around these halls over the next five days and will be performances, showing video works by French artists from the collections of the Pompidou Centre, theatrical performances and master classes.

"The very festival - a very dynamic phenomenon, which has a clear logic of the transition from one type of artistic activity to another," - said the lake.

According to the curator of the Hermitage 20/21 ", absolutely see the whole program of the festival is impossible, but by coming in these days in the Hermitage at any convenient time, would certainly be in for something interesting.

In the exhibition, which opens October 13 in Antechamber of the Winter Palace, features twelve masterpieces of French art of the twentieth century - the famous works of Marcel Duchamp, Yves Klein, Martial Rice, Jean Dubuffet, Cesar, Roman Opalka, Robert Filiu, Daniel Buren, Gerard Garusta, Georges Mathieu, Bernard Lavie, Renzo Piano, Richard Rogers and other authors whose works are on display in St. Petersburg for the first time.

The event is timed to the year of France in Russia and, according to Ozerkova, this project - an example of collective creativity.

"Over the project was carried out complex teamwork - at first I selected the works from the collection of the Pompidou Center, and then corrected the French list, and then - we are" - concluded the official.

The program "Hermitage 20/21" began in 2007 with the exhibition "America today. Choice of Charles Saatchi." Following, in particular, were shown in "Newspeak. British Art Now," "Mirror" Anish Kapoor and Antony Gormley CLASP.

The Pompidou Center was opened in Paris in 1977, its structure includes the Museum of Modern Art, library, exhibition and concert halls, Institute for Research and Coordination of Acoustics and Music.

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