Centre Pompidou-Metz, vue de nuit, mars 2010 © Shigeru Ban Architects Europe et Jean de Gastines...

The opening Centre Georges Pompidou in Metz, on May 12 will be marked by five days of festivities. A cheerful atmosphere will reign with a number of events where the public will be able to go and admire the Centre Pompidou-Metz’ spectacular architecture, visit the opening exhibition, "Masterpieces?", marvel at the amazing fireworks, attend concerts, participate in an artist’s performance, parade with the Graoully dragon and take part in a giant banquet.
The Centre Pompidou-Metz the first decentralized branch of the Centre national d'art et de culture Georges Pompidou. The centre will not be an antenna or an annex to the Pompidou Centre in Paris but a sister institution in its own right. The future program and choice of works on show will be determined in synergy with the Centre Pompidou.
Metz, being ideally located close to Germany, Belgium and Luxembourg, makes it an perfect pole of attraction for visitors from Eastern and Northern Europe and will enhance the institution's artistic influence within Europe.
The Centre Pompidou-Metz will bring innovation to this area and echo the cultural creativity of the 21st century, particularly through its own production studio.

Centre Pompidou-Metz, vue de nuit, mars 2010 © Shigeru Ban Architects Europe et Jean de Gastines Architectes / Metz Métropole / Centre Pompidou-Metz / Photo Roland Halbe

Entering the Centre Pompidou-Metz will be a unique event and an artistic adventure.
The building, designed by architects Shigeru Ban and Jean de Gastines, has unusual characteristics: the remarkable size of its main nave and the variety of its exhibition spaces, with large open spaces and more intimate places that encourage inventiveness and continually surprise the visitor. Never fixed permanently, the exhibition areas can be modulated to allow original interpretations of modern and contemporary art.
The Centre Pompidou-Metz, will open its doors with the exhibition “Masterpiece?” which examines the notion of the masterpiece, past, present and future, through an exceptional selection of almost eight hundred works of art, and invites the public to question themselves; What is a masterpiece? Is this notion still relevant today? Who decides what is a masterpiece? Once a masterpiece, always a masterpiece? see video

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Published 07.05.2010