ART
Sarkis Passages |
Written 30 January |
Wednesday 10 February, 11:00Centre Pompidou, 75004 [map]Sarkis Passages
The exhibition presents a series of recent works or works from Sarkis created for the occasion. By notably combining neon lights, video, photography, watercolour, and various materials (plastiline, glass, water, etc.), Sarkis 'disperses' his installations according to an infiltration strategy, aiming to capture the timelessness and explosion of the space, which is unique to him.
The Brancusi Workshop, the Public information Library (BPI), the Kandinsky Library and the Museum (level 4) open the first part of the event. On the 4th April, the exhibition then continues its display on level 5 of the Museum, before concluding and taking residence on level -1 of the Forum, from 21 April 2010. The objects of La vitrine des innocents The Window of the Innocents (2005-2007) maintain a close relationship with those of the Mur de l'atelier (1922 to 1966); the identical reconstruction of a wall from the workshop of André Breton in one of the Museum's modern collections' gallery (level 5). The luminous crosses of the scale model from Sarkis' workshop, Conversations entre Joraï et mon Atelier Conversations Between Joraï and My Workshop (2001-2002) can still be seen rubbing shoulders with the supremacist works of Kasimir Malevitch in the Museum's gallery dedicated to him. The felt of the grand ceremonial clothes created by Sarkis, such as Le printemps et la nuit Spring and Night Time (2000-2002) and that of the Sommeil abandonné Abandoned Sleep (2002), resonates with the rolls of felt from Plight (1985), the famous installation by the German artist Joseph Beuys, one of the artist's tutelary figures. A space in which the spectator is invited to slip on Oriental slippers, thus participating in the ritual imposed by the artist.
| What: | Sarkis Passages |
| When: | Wednesday 10 February, 11:00 |
| Where: | Centre Pompidou, Place Georges Pompidou 75004 [map] |
| Transport: | Rambuteau, Hôtel de Ville, Châtelet-Les Halles |
| Cost: | 9-12EUR |
| Phone: | 01 44 78 12 33 |
| Web: | www.centrepompidou.fr |
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