Press Release Centre Pompidou-Metz exhibitions in 2018-2019 From October, Centre Pompidou-Metz will present the exhibition Painting the Night devoted to a central theme of art history which has never ceased to inspire artists. The exhibition proposes to plunge the visitor into modern and contemporary painting, with a presentation in a space of around two thousand square metres transforming the spectator into a night bird leading him from giddiness to vertigo: vertigo of the senses, of reason, cosmic vertigo. Night, both a refuge and a window open onto the universe, appears to be a territory and a temporality to be explored, for anyone choosing to remain awake. Taking several directions (“Painting the Night” does it not mean Press contacts both to represent night and to paint at night?), the exhibition assembles Centre Pompidou-Metz over 200 works of artists from the XX and XXI centuries, major figures, but Agathe Bataille also discoveries or rediscoveries, as well as some large installations which Head of Publics and Communications redefine the notion of painting today. We will come across the painters of 00 33 (0)3 87 15 39 83 the nights of the années folles as well as the great insomniacs of the XX [email protected] century, the dreamers for whom the night was their medium, the painters Marion Petit for whom night was an abstraction without any limits, or even the attempts Communication officer by contemporary artists to grasp that intangible substance which the night 00 33 (0)3 87 15 52 76 [email protected] is made of. Claudine Colin Communication Pénélope Ponchelet The immersion in an unprecedented space-time will be prolonged with The Well-Tuned Piano in The Magenta Lights 87 V 10 6:43:00 PM – 87 V 11 00 33 (0)1 42 72 60 01 [email protected] 01:07:45 AM NYC by La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela. A major work by the musician, this solo for piano accompanied by the lighting effects created by his wife Marian Zazeela pursues La Monte Young’s quest for an eternal music. In February, the monographic exhibition of the Korean artist, poet and philosopher Lee Ufan. Inhabiting Time presents a selection of his work from the end of the 1960’s up until today. His paintings and his sculptures reveal his very personal definition of contemporary art, detached from language and conceived as an immediately sensorial experience. The transdisciplinary exhibition Rebecca Horn. Theatre of Metamorphoses, organised in collaboration with the Museum Tinguely of Basel, will be on show in June. It is based on the founding theme of metamorphoses in the artist’s work. The presentation goes back over five decades of creation, bringing into dialogue her works with those of other major artists who have inspired her such as Man Ray, Max Ernst and Marcel Duchamp. Also presented in June as an echo to the 350th anniversary of the Opéra national de Paris, the exhibition – event Opera as the World is a testimony to the encounter between the visual arts and the operatic genre from the 1 beginning of the XX century. Set models, costumes and other theatrical elements will be presented next to important installations and new creations. In September, Centre Pompidou-Metz is presenting a retrospective exhibition to The Ecstatic Eye. Sergei Eisenstein at the crossroads of the arts which explores the work of the film maker in the light of his very personal relationship with the history of art. The exhibition gives his rightful place to this major artist of the XX century, beyond the ideological interpretations of his work. The exhibition The Adventure of Colour also continues until July 2019. Veritable polychrome symphony, it invites visitors to discover the chromatic environment of the artists of the beginning of the XX century up until today, with the exceptional collection of the Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne. The Centre Pompidou-Metz programme benefits from the support of Wendel, founding sponsor. 2 IMAGES ARE AVAILABLE ON THE PHOTOTHEQUE The exhibitions in 2018 and 2019 : centrepompidou-metz.fr/phototheque LOGIN NAME: presse • Painting the Night PASSWORD: Pomp1d57 From 13 October 2018 to 15 April 2019 Galleries 2 and 3 • The Adventure of Colour Up until 22 July 2019 Grande Nef • La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela The Well-Tuned Piano in The Magenta Lights 87 V 10 6:43:00 PM – 87 V 11 01:07:45 AM NYC (1964/1973/1981/today) From 22 September 2018 to 7 January 2019 Gallery 1 (installation) • Lee Ufan. Inhabiting time From 27 February to 30 September 2019 Gallery 1 • Rebecca Horn. Theatre of Metamorphoses From 8 June to 11 November 2019 Gallery 2 • Opera as the World From 22 June 2019 to 27 January 2020 Gallery 3 • The Ecstatic Eye. Sergei Eisenstein at the crossroads of the arts From 28 September 2019 to 24 February 2020 Grande Nef 3 Peter Doig, Milky Way, 1989-90 © Peter Doig. All Rights Reserved, DACS/Artimage 2018. Photo: Painting the Night Jochen Littkemann / ADAGP Paris, 2018 13.10.18 > 15.04.19 Galleries 2 and 3 “Listen to the Earth’s heartbeats. Night is at the very heart of current debates, whether they be societal Surrender yourself to the fear that comets and the unknown provoke in (should we open shops at night or devote night to sleep?), ecological (how man. Switch off the sun on request. to limit light pollution which prevents us from seeing the stars or disrupts Light the brain’s lamps at night.” the natural world?), political (public support for victims of terror (nuit Max Ernst debout), clandestine crossing of frontiers) or scientific (we never cease to increase our knowledge of the night). The night world with all its questioning is omnipresent amongst artists, notably at the end of the XIX century. Night has changed and has changed us, because of major revolutions such as electrification and lighting, psychoanalysis and space exploration: as many upheavals in the definition and the relationship that we have with the night. A major source of inspiration throughout the history of art, night still remains today a fertile field of experiences. Coming back to a subject as vast as the night enables us to ask essential questions about our condition and our place in the universe, as well as about the role of art. Painting in particular has regularly tried to grasp the substance of the night. If such a proposition can appear at first to be a contradiction, “painting the night” on the contrary turns out to be full of sense. The title voluntarily contains an ambiguity: either painting the night means representing the night, or 4 painting at night. Painting the obscurity or painting in the obscurity is already to make a choice, that of sharpening one’s exterior vision or in fact of abandoning it. Night enables both physically as well as symbolically this “detachment from the world” so dear to modernity. The arrival of dusk could in fact be the perfect metaphor of the volatile frontier between the figurative and the abstract. Through an approach tied to the perception of night rather than its iconography, the exhibition presents itself as a nocturnal experience, a perambulation which transforms the visitor into a night bird, and which passes on this vertigo which the night provides, vertigo of the senses, interior vertigo, cosmic vertigo. We advance in the exhibition just like we advance at night. Faithful to the spirit of the exhibitions at Centre Pompidou-Metz, it does not limit itself in an exclusive manner to painting, although it is central, but offers echoes and parallels with music and literature notably, as well as with video and photography. It brings together around one hundred artists and historical figures (Winslow Homer, Francis Bacon, Anna-Eva Bergman, Louise Bourgeois, Brassaï, Max Ernst, Helen Frankenthaler, Martin Kippenberger, Paul Klee, Lee Krasner, Henri Michaux, Joan Mitchell, Amédée Ozenfant, etc.) and contemporary artists (Etel Adnan, Charbel-joseph Boutros, Ann Craven, Peter Doig, Jennifer Douzenel, Rodney Graham, Paul Kneale, Olaf Nicolai, Gerhard Richter, etc.) as well as spectacular installations of which certain were specially conceived for this project (Harold Ancart, Raphaël Dallaporta, Spencer Finch, Daisuke Yokota, Navid Nuur, etc.). Curator : Jean-Marie Gallais, Head of exhibitions, Centre Pompidou-Metz Exhibition and research officer : Alexandra Müller, Centre Pompidou-Metz With the support of the Moselle departement Patrons of the exhibition: The exhibition has benefitted from exceptional loans from the musée d’Orsay With the assistance of Pianos Schaeffer 5 “Six nights at the museum” 8.11.18 > 04.04.19 Every month a night show will enable the discovery of the exhibition at nightfall in exceptional situations: after a programme of music played in front of the works, one or several guests will each reveal, according to their discipline (philosophy, astrophysics, dance, music…) a different representation of the night. Each one of these night shows will be an opportunity for the Gabriel Pierné regional conservatoire of Metz Metropole to occupy the spaces for programmes of music given in front of the works or in the semi- darkness of the scenography. The arts centre comes to life at night thanks to these interventions which are an echo to sections of the exhibition: get lost in the night, rhythms and presences, nocturnal obsessions, unobstructed eyes, attracted to the stars, night enveloping me. Each one of these night shows also gives the right to an invitation, with which the evening can be extended at the exhibition, in the Studio or at the Wendel Auditorium: philosopher, astrophysician, dancer, musician, film maker come to share their definition of the night.