Red thread
Moviment, Chapter 1
Wed 3 – Sun 7 May 2023
Vue de l'installation à la Kestnergesellschaft, Hannovre. Photo : © Christian Falsnaes
Christian Falsnaes
First, 2016
Visual arts Performance
First is the only work that will be on display throughout Moviment. Members of the public are invited to enter this recording and film studio and become actors in the event.
Each day, the first visitor to the gallery will be offered the opportunity to act out a short performance that is filmed and then screened throughout the day in the installation, before being deleted that night, to make way for the following day’s show.
Performance – every day from 11 am to 11:45 am
Continuous installation
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© Adagp, Paris. Photo : Centre Pompidou, Mnam-Cci/Philippe Migeat/Dist. Rmn-Gp
![Sophie Taeuber-Arp (Sophie-Henriette Taeuber, dite), Quatre espaces à croix brisée [1932]](/_elastic_filemount/media/picture/fb/30/fb30495596ee70fc014d3b6cca5ebe83/thumb_large.jpg)
Domaine public. Photo © Centre Pompidou, Mnam-Cci/Bertrand Prévost/Dist. Rmn-Gp
© Adagp, Paris. Photo : Centre Pompidou, Mnam-Cci/Philippe Migeat/Dist. Rmn-Gp
In this first chapter, the exhibition showcases geometric abstractions.
The selection comprises works by some of the leading artists in the genre, such as Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Max Bill, François Morellet, Ellsworth Kelly and Vera Molnár. They represent the long history of these visual studies, in which mathematical considerations are as important as the systems of repetitions, the variations or the quest for the basic structures of objects.
As a counterpoint, the almost cartographic reminiscences of Andrea Branzi and Julie Mehretu’s subtly rearranged places echo, a century later, the drawings and engravings of Wassily Kandinksy inspired by his wanderings between Russia and Germany during the Bauhaus/Weimar years (1921–1925).
"Points and lines" also encompasses Maurizio Nannucci’s big neon Red Line, Hella Jongerius’ experiments with textiles, the echoes of pain in Moshe Gershuni’s wreaths, and other works without any apparent reciprocal link, which are touched on here.
Continuous exhibition
Guided tour with curator – Sunday, 7 May 2023
Photo : © Bibliothèque Kandinsky
The private diaries of Vera Molnár
Visual arts Exhibition, meetings, screening
Conceptual and concrete artist, heir to constructivism and pioneer of computer art in the 1960s, Vera Molnár has kept notebooks since 1976, which she calls her Private Diary, as a way of preserving the memory of her works. Page after page, project after project, she reveals her aims and aspirations, and the secrets of her creations over almost 45 years of uninterrupted artistic production. The result is a series of 22 notebooks ending in 2020, when she left her studio. They shine a light on a rigorous, sophisticated and varied body of work, in constant pursuit of regeneration.
The Private Diary (1976–2020) of Vera Molnár, donated by the artist in 2023, will be on display for the first time as part of Moviment.
Wednesday, 3 May 2023
Courtesy Guy de Cointet Society and Air de Paris, Romainville. © Photo : Manuel Fuentes
About Guy de Cointet
Theater Performances, meetings
Born in Paris in 1934, Guy de Cointet started by producing a number of sculptural paintings on the periphery of the New Realism movement while working as a fashion illustrator. In 1968, now living in Los Angeles and working as an assistant to the artist Larry Bell, de Cointet started to produce paintings, drawings and publications. From 1973, some of his compositions of letters and symbols began to feature as decorative elements in performances written and staged by the artist, the storylines of which combined comedy and drama, and often involved having to “decipher” their seemingly unintelligible patterns.
The Centre Pompidou holds various archives of this key figure in conceptual and performance art, as well as some props he designed for his plays. As part of Moviment, an evening event will be held in a number of stages, during which these plays will be presented and then carried on to consider their significance today.
The performance Going to the Market, featuring Sarah Vermande, explores the silences in the archives of the life of Guy de Cointet. A reading by the researcher Marilou Thiébault turns the spotlight on some of the archives held in the Kandinsky Library. Actresses Sarah Vermande and Violeta Sanchez, with input from the artist Hugues de Cointet – adviser on behalf of the Guy de Cointet Society – question the meaning of interpreting his works today and the fate of his sets. The evening concludes with a special screening of the show Tell Me, filmed at the Centre Pompidou in 2013.
Friday, 5 May 2023
© Photo : Centre Pompidou/Florian Ebner
Treasure revealed:
Brassaï’s contact sheets
Photography Meeting
The photographer Brassaï (1899–1984) – a familiar man-about-town in the streets of Paris, associate of denizens of the night, friend of the artists of the day, keen searcher for graffiti – left behind a superb body of work, as evidenced by his archive of thousands of contact sheets. Taken initially with a large-format camera and later on using a medium-format device, the images were printed, cut out and then pasted onto cardboard sheets.
Such complete and beautiful photographic archives are rare indeed. Not intended for distribution as artistic works, these panels are displayed and annotated as archives for the first time, as part of Moviment.
Friday, 5 May 2023
Wednesday, 3 May 2023 | |
| Continuous 11am-9pm | Performance Christian Falsnaes, First (2016) |
| Exhibition Points, lines and plans Selection of works from the collection of the National Museum of Modern Art | |
| 11:30am-12:30am | Meeting From complete emptiness to total fullness, and other possibilities: The liquefying structures of Andrea Branzi with Marie-Ange Brayer (Centre Pompidou) |
| 2pm-3pm | Meeting The art of weaving in the work of Hella Jongerius with Hella Jongerius, moderated by: Olivier Zeitoun (Centre Pompidou) |
| 6pm-7pm | Meeting Within these pages: the private diaries of Vera Molnàr. Looking through her notebooks with Vincent Baby (INHA), François Nawrocki (Centre Pompidou) |
| 7pm-8pm | Meeting Vera Molnàr / Sophie Taeuber-Arp: Crossed paths with Vincent Baby (INHA), Cécile Bargues (INHA), François Nawrocki (Centre Pompidou) |
| 8pm-9pm | Screening Showing of the film Vera Molnàr. Plaisir de géométrie by Laszlo Horvath, 2011 (52 min) |
Thursday, 4 May 2023 | |
| Continuous 11am-9pm | Performance Christian Falsnaes, First (2016) |
| Exhibition Points, lines and plans Selection of works from the collection of the National Museum of Modern Art | |
| 7pm-8pm | Reading performance Reading of extracts from Kaddish byAllen Ginsberg (1959), illustrated with screen prints by Moshe Gershuni withTheo Hakola |
Friday, 5 May 2023 | |
| Continuous 11am-9pm | Performance Christian Falsnaes, First (2016) |
| Exhibition Points, lines and plans Selection of works from the collection of the National Museum of Modern Art | |
| 3pm-4pm | Meeting Treasure revealed: Brassaï’s contact sheets with Michel Frizot (CNRS-EHESS) |
| 4:30pm-6:15pm | Screening Showing (on a loop) of the play I Dream (Old Woman) by Guy de Cointet (around 1968-1970) |
| 6:30pm-7pm | Performance Presentation of the play Going to the Market by Guy de Cointet (1975) with Sarah Vermande |
| 7pm-7:30pm | Reading, meeting Reading by Marilou Thiébault from her upcoming book on Guy de Cointet. with Marilou Thiébault, François Nawrocki (Centre Pompidou) |
| 7:30pm-8pm | Meeting Playing Guy de Cointet: discussion with Hugues de Cointet, Violeta Sanchez, Sarah Vermande |
| 8pm-9pm | Screening Showing of Tell Me by Guy de Cointet (1979), performed in 2013 at the Centre Pompidou (50 min) |
Saturday, 6 May 2023 | |
| Continuous 11am-9pm | Performance Christian Falsnaes, First (2016) |
| Exhibition Points, lines and plans Selection of works from the collection of the National Museum of Modern Art | |
| 2pm-3pm | Workshop "Écoutèmes": workshop on concrete poetry On reservation at ateliers-moviment@centrepompidou.fr with Alexandru Balgiu |
| 6pm-7pm | Listening session Keeping Time (1996): Broadcast of a programme of sound recordings of artists produced by Maurizio Nannucci and Zona Archives, between 1969 and 1995. Featuring recordings by, among others, Louise Lawler, Chris Burden, Christian Boltansky, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Lawrence Weiner and John Baldessari |
| 7pm-8pm | Listening session, meeting Soundworks: Listening session featuring the audio work of Maurizio Nannucci, from Testi Sonori and Radiopoems (1965–1972) to his more recent work. Concrete poetry and musical experimentation. with Maurizio Nannucci (subject to change), Jonathan Pouthier (Centre Pompidou) |
Sunday, 7 May 2023 | |
| Continuous 11am-9pm | Performance Christian Falsnaes, First (2016) |
| Exhibition Points, lines and plans Selection of works from the collection of the National Museum of Modern Art | |
| 11:30am -12:30am | Guided tour Tour of the "Points, lines and plans" exhibition with François Nawrocki (Centre Pompidou) |
Maurizio Nannucci
Visual arts
Hella Jongerius
Design
Sarah Vermande
Performance
Michel Frizot
Photography
Moviment
1 venue 10 chapters 100 revelations
3 May – 14 July 2023
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Gallery 3, Centre Pompidou
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