Four exhibitions in 2011

7 April 2011

Press release Four exhibitions at the Centre Pompidou-Metz in 2011

The Centre Pompidou-Metz is staging four temporary exhibitions in 2011:

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from 8 May to 9 September 2011: “Daniel Buren, ECHOS, Travaux in situ ”

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from 11 September 2011 to 5 March 2012: “ERRE”

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from 9 October 2011 to summer 2012: “Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec”

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until 12 September 2011: “Masterpieces ?”

Centre Pompidou-Metz Louise Moreau 00 33 (0)3 87 15 39 63 louise.moreau@centrepompidoumetz.fr

Claudine Colin Communication Valentine Dolla 00 33 (0)1 42 72 60 01 valentine@claudinecolin.com

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Daniel Buren “ECHOS, Travaux in situ “ 8 May – 9 September 2011 Galerie 3

Born in Boulogne-Billancourt in 1938, Daniel Buren is an important figure of the French contemporary art scene. He is known for his use of vertical, 8.7cm-wide, alternating white and coloured stripes, which he calls “visual tools”. For some, these stripes are also the artist's "trademark" and signature. Buren was one of the first artists to work almost exclusively in situ - and the first to use this term in reference to visual arts – making his work relate specifically to the site where it is made and shown. Buren has produced almost two thousand installations worldwide to date. In 1986 he was awarded the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale. That same year he completed a seminal work in the courtyard of the Palais Royal in Paris, Les Deux Plateaux (Two Planes), popularly known as Buren's Columns. In 2007, Daniel Buren was awarded Japan's Praemium Imperiale.

The Centre Pompidou-Metz has developed a privileged relationship with Daniel Buren notably through the Constellation pre-inauguration event in 2009 which produced two projects: 5,610 flammes colorées pour un arc-en-ciel (5,610 coloured flames make a rainbow), a site-specific work in the Rue Serpenoise in Metz, and, in September, Couleurs superposes (Layered colours), a performance which he directed at the Metz Métropole Opera House and Theatre.

A year after its opening, the Centre Pompidou-Metz has invited Daniel Buren to produce a project specifically for Galerie 3, in a joint initiative with Luxemburg's Mudam (Grand Duke Jean Museum of Modern Art). Buren has created a site-specific piece for the Mudam's Grand Hall, entitled Architecture, contre-architecture : transposition, which will be shown until May 2011. The Centre Pompidou-Metz then takes up this proposal with an installation that will integrate a museographic structure.

A catalogue will accompany the exhibition.

Curators: Laurent Le Bon, Director and Chief Curator, Centre Pompidou-Metz Hélène Guenin, Head of Curatorial Department, Centre Pompidou-Metz

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“ERRE” 11 September 2011 – 5 March 2012 Grande Nef and Galerie 1

ERRE follows Masterpieces ? as the second major thematic exhibition at the Centre Pompidou-Metz. This multidisciplinary group show develops the theme of the labyrinth to address questions of loss, drifting and deambulation, and their portrayal in contemporary art.

Two ancient, universal forms, the maze and the labyrinth are shown here as expressions of complexity and duality, symbols of both logic and chaos.

The subject is considered in its architectural, physical and mental dimensions, exploring the labyrinth as an architectural form and a metaphor: from meandering thoughts to wandering in modern urban landscapes to physical boundaries.

The exhibition centres on the concepts of crossings and experience. The theme will be examined through conceptual as well as sensory means. It will be part initiation and part immersion and will be divided into eight sub-sections: - The labyrinth in architecture The paradox of the labyrinth is that of being a precise and complex construction that induces chaos and disorientation. This part of the exhibition focuses on radical architecture from the second half of the twentieth century.

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Space - time The labyrinth is literally and metaphorically a space that engenders time. This section examines art whose fundamentals are intentional drift and return to the same.

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The urban landscape – the modern labyrinth In this modern age, urban spread is the most obvious expression of the labyrinthine model. Cities have inspired new subjective practices such as mental mapping and solitary urban drifting.

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Memory: the mental maze The labyrinth can be a metaphor for knowledge and meandering thought. This section presents artists' attempts to organise thought; to give logical form to mental wanderings and chaos.

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Dislocated perception This section re-examines kinetic experimentation.

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Restraint – prison as protection The labyrinth is a place of imprisonment and physical restraint. This section explores experimental research into stress and physical reaction to confinement.

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Initiation - enlightenment This chapter presents documented performances and installations as metaphors for the initiatory quest.

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The maze as artistic metaphor This section considers twentieth-century art and literature that was no longer fundamentally linear but, on the contrary, based on an explosion of perspective and meaning.

Extending over 2,000 square metres in two of the gallery spaces at the Centre PompidouMetz, ERRE presents works by different generations of French and international artists, together with major figures from the collection of the Centre Pompidou – Musée National d'Art Moderne. It will also feature specially commissioned works.

A catalogue will accompany the exhibition.

Curators: Hélène Guenin, Head of Curatorial Department, Centre Pompidou-Metz Guillaume Désanges, Independent Curator and Art Critic

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“Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec” 9 October 2011 – summer 2012 Galerie 3

The Centre Pompidou-Metz presents the first major retrospective in France dedicated to the work of Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec.

Respectively graduates of the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris and the École Nationale Supérieure d'Arts in Cergy-Pontoise, Ronan (b. 1971) and Erwan (b. 1976) Bouroullec began working together in 1999 in a partnership that thrives on permanent dialogue and a shared determination to produce objects of ever greater precision and finesse.

Today, their designs are manufactured by such prominent names as Vitra, Magis, Alessi, Established & Sons, Axor Hansgrohe, Kartell, Kvadrat, Cappellini, Camper and Ligne Roset.

Also involved in more experimental design with Galerie Kreo, they occasionally undertake architectural projects as well.

Named "Designers of the Year" at the 2002 Paris Furniture Show, other awards include the City of Paris Grand Prix du Design (1998), the New Designer Award at the New York International Contemporary Furniture Fair (1999) and the Danish Finn Juhl Prize (2008). Their work has been shown in a number of monographic exhibitions - London's Design Museum (2002), the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Rotterdam's Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, La Piscine, Musée d'Art et d'Industrie in Roubaix (2004), Villa Noailles in Hyères (2008) and Le Grand Hornu, Belgium (2009).

Their work is part of the collections at institutions such as the Centre Pompidou - Musée National d'Art Moderne and the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Design Museum, London, and the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam.

From October 2011, the Centre Pompidou-Metz will dedicate 1,000 square metres of gallery space to their work over the past ten years, alongside examples of their research projects.

A catalogue will accompany the exhibition.

Curators: Laurent Le Bon, Director and Chief Curator, Centre Pompidou-Metz Hélène Guenin, Head of Curatorial Department, Centre Pompidou-Metz

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Until 12 September 2011: “Masterpieces ?”

Over 700,000 visitors have already come to see the “Masterpieces ? “opening exhibition at the Centre Pompidou-Metz. The exhibition will remain open in part until 12 September 2011.

"Masterpieces ad infinitum" in Galerie 3 closed on 17 January 2011; "Stories behind Masterpieces" in Galerie 1 and "Masterpieces throughout History" in the Grande Nef on 4 July 2011; and "Masterpiece Dreams” in Galerie 2 on 12 September 2011.

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