Beacons
14 Feb 2014 - 14 Feb 2016
Pablo Picasso, Rideau pour le ballet "Mercure" (ancien titre : La Musique), 1924
Rideau de scène pour le ballet Mercure, musique d'Eric Satie, chorégraphie de Léonide Massine, costumes de Picasso. Ballet créé le 17 mai 1924 chez le Comte Etienne de Beaumont dans le cadre de ses Soirées de Paris.
Peinture à la colle sur toile, 392 x 501 cm
Achat, 1955.
© Succession Picasso, Paris 2013
© Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI / Jean-François Tomasian/ Dist.RMN-GP
Rideau de scène pour le ballet Mercure, musique d'Eric Satie, chorégraphie de Léonide Massine, costumes de Picasso. Ballet créé le 17 mai 1924 chez le Comte Etienne de Beaumont dans le cadre de ses Soirées de Paris.
Peinture à la colle sur toile, 392 x 501 cm
Achat, 1955.
© Succession Picasso, Paris 2013
© Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI / Jean-François Tomasian/ Dist.RMN-GP
BEACONS
14 February 2014 - 14 February 2016
“These curses, these blasphemies, these lamentations,
These Te Deums, these ecstasies, these cries, these tears,
Are an echo repeated by a thousand labyrinths;
They are for mortal hearts a divine opium.
They are a cry passed on by a thousand sentinels,
An order re-echoed through a thousand megaphones;
They are a beacon lighted on a thousand citadels,
A call from hunters lost deep in the woods!”
Charles Baudelaire, “The Beacons” (extract), The Flowers of Evil, 1857
Translation by William Aggeler, (Fresno, CA: Academy Library Guild, 1954)
Based entirely on loans from the collection at Centre Pompidou/Musée national d’art moderne, the Beacons exhibition highlights a selection of masterpieces rarely shown to the public due to their monumental size.
With no specific chronological order, the exhibition's staging provides an overview of the primary movements in art since the start of the 20th century, from Pablo Picasso to Anish Kapoor including Sam Francis, Joseph Beuys and Dan Flavin.
An exhibition catalogue will be published in summer 2014.
Curators:
Claire Garnier, Curator, Personal Assistant to the Director and Project Coordinator, Centre Pompidou-Metz.
She co-curated the 1917 and Parade exhibitions (Centre Pompidou-Metz, 2012).
Élodie Stroecken, Curator, Assistant Coordinator for Programming, Centre Pompidou-Metz.
She is co-curating the Tania Mouraud exhibition (Centre Pompidou-Metz, 2015).
Different themes will be addressed over the two years in which the exhibition is presented. These include light and shadow, figuration and abstraction, brushwork in 2014.
ART APPRECIATION PROGRAMME
Labels for Young Visitors
In addition to the wall labels and texts normally posted for each work, special descriptions have also been provided for young visitors. Easy to see and read, these labels provide child-friendly texts so that young visitors may actively participate in their tour of Beacons. Anecdotes, riddles and small activities provide youngsters with essential information on each work.
Thematic Tours
Following the “regular tours” principle on Saturdays at Centre Pompidou-Metz, hour-long thematic tours through the Beacons exhibition will be led by art interpretor gallery staff.
Document Base
Starting in June 2014, a rich document base, comprised of photographs, archive videos, artists' accounts and quotations will substitute the wall texts, providing visitors with an in-depth view into the art works on display.
14 February 2014 - 14 February 2016
“These curses, these blasphemies, these lamentations,
These Te Deums, these ecstasies, these cries, these tears,
Are an echo repeated by a thousand labyrinths;
They are for mortal hearts a divine opium.
They are a cry passed on by a thousand sentinels,
An order re-echoed through a thousand megaphones;
They are a beacon lighted on a thousand citadels,
A call from hunters lost deep in the woods!”
Charles Baudelaire, “The Beacons” (extract), The Flowers of Evil, 1857
Translation by William Aggeler, (Fresno, CA: Academy Library Guild, 1954)
Based entirely on loans from the collection at Centre Pompidou/Musée national d’art moderne, the Beacons exhibition highlights a selection of masterpieces rarely shown to the public due to their monumental size.
With no specific chronological order, the exhibition's staging provides an overview of the primary movements in art since the start of the 20th century, from Pablo Picasso to Anish Kapoor including Sam Francis, Joseph Beuys and Dan Flavin.
An exhibition catalogue will be published in summer 2014.
Curators:
Claire Garnier, Curator, Personal Assistant to the Director and Project Coordinator, Centre Pompidou-Metz.
She co-curated the 1917 and Parade exhibitions (Centre Pompidou-Metz, 2012).
Élodie Stroecken, Curator, Assistant Coordinator for Programming, Centre Pompidou-Metz.
She is co-curating the Tania Mouraud exhibition (Centre Pompidou-Metz, 2015).
Different themes will be addressed over the two years in which the exhibition is presented. These include light and shadow, figuration and abstraction, brushwork in 2014.
ART APPRECIATION PROGRAMME
Labels for Young Visitors
In addition to the wall labels and texts normally posted for each work, special descriptions have also been provided for young visitors. Easy to see and read, these labels provide child-friendly texts so that young visitors may actively participate in their tour of Beacons. Anecdotes, riddles and small activities provide youngsters with essential information on each work.
Thematic Tours
Following the “regular tours” principle on Saturdays at Centre Pompidou-Metz, hour-long thematic tours through the Beacons exhibition will be led by art interpretor gallery staff.
Document Base
Starting in June 2014, a rich document base, comprised of photographs, archive videos, artists' accounts and quotations will substitute the wall texts, providing visitors with an in-depth view into the art works on display.