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Centre Pompidou
DREAMLANDS
5 MAY-9 AUGUST 2010
GALERIE 1, LEVEL 6
Occupying the Grande Galerie at Centre Pompidou from 5 May to 9 August
2010, the exhibition Dreamlands will consider for the first time the question
of how World's Fairs, international exhibitions, theme parks and kindred
institutions have influenced ideas about the city and the way it is used.
Duplicating and reduplicating reality through the creation of replicas, embracing
an aesthetic of accumulation and collage that is often close to kitsch, these
self-enclosed parallel worlds have frequently afforded inspiration to
the artistic, architectural and urbanistic practices of the twentieth century,
and may even be said to have served as models for certain contemporary
constructions.
This multidisciplinary exhibition will bring together more than 300 works:
modern and contemporary art, architecture, films and documents drawn
from numerous public and private collections.
Designed as an experience both playful and educational, it will offer the first
comprehensive exploration of its theme, inviting visitors to think about how
the city is imagined and how this imagination finds expression in concrete
projects.
World's Fairs, contemporary theme parks, the Las Vegas of the 1950s and '60s,
twenty-first-century Dubai: all these have helped bring about a profound
transformation in our relation to the world, our conceptions of geography,
time and history, our ideas about the original and the reproduction, about art
and non-art.
The dreamlands of the leisure society have shaped the imagination, nourishing
both utopian dreams and artistic productions. But they have also become
realities: the pastiche, the copy, the artificial and the fictive have become
facts of the environment in which real life is led, and they serve as models
for understanding and planning the urban fabric and its social life, blurring
the boundaries between imagination and reality.
From Salvador Dali's Dream of Venus pavilion for the New York World's Fair
of 1939 to such manifestoes as Venturi and Brown's Learning from Las Vegas
and Rem Koolhaas's Delirious New York (which reads Manhattan through
Coney Island's Dreamland), the sixteen sections of the exhibition will trace
the history of a complex and problematic relationship.
ARTISTS
Al Ghaith Reem, Andrea Robbins and Max Becher, Arbuckle Roscoe, Arbus Diane,
Archigram, Attia Kader, Bacon Lloyd, Barbieri Olivio,
Berdaguer & Péjus, Bernado Jordi, Bourgadier Hermine, Bruce High Quality Foundation,
Buckminster Fuller Richard, Cam Emilie & Ferrand Rémy, Cantor Mircea, Cattelan Maurizio,
Chancel Philippe, Constant, Couturier Stéphane, Dali Salvador, Dardi Costantino,
Del Corte Jenny, Depero Fortunato, Desouza Allan, Farrell Malachi,
Féau Théophile, Fullerton-Batten Julia, Ghirri Luigi, Gordon Smith,
Graves Allan, Grasso Laurent, Gursky Andreas, Guston Philip
Hollein Hans, Huyghe Pierre, Joye Florian, Kelley Mike,
Kingelez Bodys Isek, Koolhaas Rem, Kwong Chi Tseng, Leirner Nelson,
Leve Edouard, Mogarra Joachim, Moholy-Nagy Laszlo, Montes Fernando,
Pablo Picasso, Parr Martin, Pesce Gaetano, Podsadecki Kazimierz,
Power Thomas, Price Cedric, Purini Franco, Riedler Reiner,
Rogers Richard -, Piano Renzo, Rossi Aldo, Ruscha Edward,
Savinio Alberto, Schaal Eric, Scolari Massimo, Sottsass Ettore,
Sriwanishpoom Manit, Stella Joseph, Struth Thomas, Superstudio,
Timtschenko Alexander, Venturi Robert Studio, Vriesendorp Madelon, Woo Back Seung,
Wei Liu, Weinberger Thomas, Xiuzhen Yin, Zangkhe Jia.
Centre Pompidou
75191 Paris cedex 04
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