Pompidou outpost in Picasso’s home town
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FRANCE’S Pompidou Center brought dozens of its 20th and 21st century artwork to one of Spain’s most popular coastlines earlier this month, opening in the Andalusian port of Malaga, the first of several international outposts.
The gallery will house works shipped from Paris including paintings and sculptures by Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, German surrealist Max Ernst and Irish-born painter Francis Bacon, as part of a “pop-up” museum that will last at least five years.
“(It) gives a fresh impetus to one of our original callings: providing access to the art of our time to as many people as possible,” Alain Seban, the French center’s president, said of the project, which should later be replicated elsewhere.
‘The Cube’ center in Malaga’s Mediterranean harbor will also host works by the city’s most famous son, Pablo Picasso, in a two-and-a-half year display from the Pompidou collection.
Rotating temporary exhibits will be held in the museum, whose underground galleries and protruding glass cube are a far cry from the Pompidou’s famed central Paris venue, where multi-colored plumbing pipes, air conditioning ducts and escalators adorn its exterior.
Malaga, one of the gateways to the Costa del Sol, has been reinventing itself as a cultural hub, with dozens of museums and an annual film festival. The city will pay 1 million euros (US$1.07 million) a year to use the Pompidou name and borrow works.
Last month, a collection of works from the Russian Museum in St Petersburg opened in Malaga. It will feature pieces from the 15th to the 20th centuries.
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