Installations and sculptures, videos, drawings, photographs and objects owned by the Paris museum and taken from private collections, mark out the elusive outline of the artistic career of Gina Pane, a pioneer and one of the major French exponents of body art. “I created a language that has given me the possibility of thinking of art in a new way. That of the bodies is my radical gesture: the bodies become the material and object of the discussion (meaning, spirit and matter)”, she wrote in a letter.

From the minimalist structures of the 1960s to the ‘Partitions’ from the 1980s when she was commissioned to create an atelier for performances within the Centre Pompidou itself, Gina Pane has never ceased to expand her analysis on the theme of the body, adding other elements a bit at a time such as the history of art and the subject of memory.

At the same time, the exhibition “Dyonisyac Art in Flux” brings together work by 14 contemporary artists. From John Bock to Maurizio Cattelan, Paul McCarthy and Kendell Geers, their work is brought together not by a common theme but a shared feeling regarding contemporary creation, that of joie de vivre and excess. E.S.

16.2.2005 – 16.5.2005
Gina Pane. Terre, artiste, ciel
16.2.2005 – 9.5.2005
Dyonisyac Art in Flux
Centre Pompidou, Paris
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