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Reinventing Landscape: Highlights of the Centre Pompidou Collection
This exhibition has ended.
Nine themed sections trace how landscape art transformed across the 20th and 21st centuries, drawing on the Centre Pompidou's collections of painting, photography, cinema, design and new media. At West Bund Museum Project, Shanghai.
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The first painting you see is 2.3 by 3.6 metres: Peter Doig's 100 Years Ago, a lone figure in a landscape Doig built from several photographs. Near the end, you press your hand into a band of green heat-sensitive paint and leave a print, then pull a spring to set off birdsong.
Nearly 70 works from the Centre Pompidou's collection fill West Bund Museum's Galleries 1 and 2 in seven sections, from 1906 to now: Cubist geometry, Surrealist dreamscapes, a yellow-heavy room on sun glare that opens with a Fauve Braque, abstraction by Zao Wou-Ki and Zhuang Zhe, cities, views from above and three walk-in panoramas. It's the one museum wall in Shanghai you're supposed to leave handprints on.
Curator Christian Briend calls it the Pompidou's first survey of landscape from the 20th century on, and admits climate change and urban sprawl barely show up directly. It closes on 18 October. Tickets are 100 yuan, Tuesday to Sunday 11am to 6pm, at 2600 Longteng Avenue, Xuhui.
Look for
Peter Doig's 100 Years Ago (2001)
The show opens on this 229 by 359 cm canvas: a single figure set in a landscape Doig assembled from several photographs.
Braque's Landscape at L'Estaque (1906-07)
Look for it at the start of the sun-glare section, a Fauve Braque in loud colour in a room where yellow dominates several canvases.
Morellet and Kawamata's Pier and Ocean
Walk inside this installation of flickering blue neon tubes, a homage to Mondrian's abstraction of the same name.
Veronique Joumard's Green Panorama
Press a hand on the green heat-sensitive band of paint to leave a print, then pull the hanging springs to trigger birdsong.
Gerard Fromanger's Bastille Network (2007)
A large painting of his Paris neighbourhood, where outlined passers-by on the street shift into a flat map of the district.
Good for
- Nerding Out
- Out-Of-Town Guests
- Teenagers
Skip if
You want art about climate change: the curator says the show barely addresses it directly.
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Image credits
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- Centre PompidouAlf van Beem / Wikimedia Commons, CC0
- Mungo Thomson: Monument© Mungo Thomson. Courtesy l'artiste, galerie frank elbaz, and Karma.
- Yu Nishimura: Towards a SeaCourtesy of Lafayette Anticipations - Fondation Galeries Lafayette
- Hélène Fauquet: VivresseCourtesy of Lafayette Anticipations - Fondation Galeries Lafayette
- Lafayette Anticipations - Fondation Galeries LafayettePhilouSunshine, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0
- Fondation Henri Cartier-BressonVVVCFFrance, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Musée des Arts et MétiersMarianne Casamance, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Bourse de Commerce - Pinault CollectionChabe01, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0