Centre Pompidou
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Centre Georges Pompidou (1977) is a Parisian building. Designed by Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers, it is known as the first postmodern building.
It houses the Bibliothèque publique d'information, a vast public library, the Musée National d'Art Moderne, and IRCAM, a centre for music and acoustic research. Because of its location, the Centre is known locally as Beaubourg. It is named after Georges Pompidou, who was president of France from 1969 to 1974, and was opened on January 31, 1977. The building was designed by the architects Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers, whose design was not very popular at first but is considered one of the first postmodern buildings. However, under the guidance of its first director, Pontus Hultén, it quickly became a noted attraction in Paris.
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Bowellism
Modern style of architecture associated with Richard Rogers. In 1977 Rogers, along with Renzo Piano, completed the Pompidou Centre in Paris. Based on the rationale that the greatest amount of floor space possible should be allowed for the interior so as to maximize space to appreciate the exhibitions, everything from the lifts to the sewage pipes were made visible on the outside of the structure. This inside-out style was termed 'Bowellism'.
Exhibitions
Several major exhibitions are organised each year on either the first or sixth floors. Among them, many monographs:
- Marcel Duchamp (1977)
- Paul Davis (1977)
- Henri Michaux (1978)
- Dalí (1979)
- Pollock (1982)
- Bonnard (1984)
- Kandinsky (1984)
- Étienne Martin (1984)
- Paul Klee (1985)
- Cy Twombly (1988)
- Frank Stella (1988)
- Andy Warhol (1990)
- Max Ernst (1991)
- Matisse (1993)
- Joseph Beuys (1994)
- Kurt Schwitters (1994)
- Gerard Gasiorowski (1995)
- Brâncuși (1995)
- Sanejouand (1995)
- Bob Morris (1995)
- Francis Bacon (1996)
- Fernand Léger (1997)
- David Hockney (1998)
- Philip Guston (2000)
- Picasso (2000)
- Jean Dubuffet (2001)
- Roland Barthes (2002)
- Max Beckmann (2002)
- Nicolas de Staël (2003)
- Sophie Calle (2003)
- Cocteau (2003)
- Philippe Starck (2003)
- Miró (2004)
- Aurelie Nemours (2004)
- Charlotte Perriand (2005)
- Robert Rauschenberg (2006)
- Claude Closky (2006)
- Jean-Luc Godard (2006)
- Yves Klein (2006)
- Hergé (2006)
- Annette Messager (2007)
- Richard Rogers (2007)
- Samuel Beckett (2007)
- David Claerbout (2007)
- Julio González (2007)
- Alberto Giacometti (2007)
- Louise Bourgeois (2008)
- Pol Abraham (2008)
- Tatiana Trouvé (2008)
- Miroslav Tichy (2008)
- Dominique Perrault (2008)
- Jean Gourmelin (2008)
- Jacques Villeglé (2008)
- Ron Arad (2008)
- Alexander Calder (2009)
- Philippe Parreno (2009)
- Kandinski (2009)
- Pierre Soulages (2009)
- Étienne Martin (2010)
- Lucian Freud (2010)
- Arman (2010)
- François Morellet (2011)
- Edvard Munch (2011)
- Gerhard Richter (2012)
- Salvador Dalí (2013)
- Roy Lichtenstein (2013)
- Mike Kelley (2013)
- Pierre Huyghe (2013)
- Henri Cartier-Bresson (2014)
- Simon Hantaï (2014)
- Jeff Koons (2014)
- Mona Hatoum (2015)
- Wifredo Lam (2015)
- Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster (2015)
- André Derain (2017)
- Latiff Mohidin (2018)
- Vasarely (2019)
- Christo and Jeanne-Claude (2020)
- Hito Steyer (2020)
- Alice Neel (2020)
- Matisse (2020)
- Catherine Meurisse (2020-21)
Use in film and television
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- Gordon Matta-Clark Conical Intersect, 1975. Matta-Clark's contribution to the Paris Biennale 1975.
- Roberto Rossellini, Beaubourg, centre d'art et de culture, 1977. A documentary about the Centre which explores the building and its surroundings on its opening day. It was Rossellini's final film.
- Lewis Gilbert, Moonraker, 1979. A fifth floor room of the building featured as the office of Holly Goodhead (played by Lois Chiles), in the 1979 James Bond film Moonraker, which in the film was scripted as being part of the space complex of the villainous Hugo Drax (Michael Lonsdale).
- Electric Light Orchestra, "Calling America" music video, 1986. ELO is shown performing the song in front of the Centre.
- Claude Pinoteau, L'Étudiante, 1988.
- Richard Berry, L'Art (délicat) de la séduction, 2001.
- James Ivory, Le Divorce, 2003.
- Laurent Tirard, Mensonges et trahisons, 2004.
- Éric et Ramzy, Seuls Two, 2008.
- JJ Burnel Euroman Cometh, 1979. The album cover shows JJ Burnel standing in front of the Centre.
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