Art exhibitions or exhibitions with varied styles make it possible for everyone to find something to their taste, because we are all different. In the difference lies the beauty.
I had promised myself a visit to this museum, the Pompidou Museum, which I had not visited for more than two years. In this museum, as in other museums, on Sundays from 4pm onwards, visits are free and it is impressive to see the number of people who attend. Many times you even have to queue to get in.
After passing your bag through the scanner, a requirement that is present in several of these places, you can enter and enjoy the exhibitions that are present at that moment.
On the outside, what you see of the museum is a large coloured cube, which can be seen from a great distance. The entrance is under the cube and the art exhibitions are in two sectors, one for the semi-permanent exhibition, which is located in the basement, which is enormous, and the temporary exhibition which is located on the ground floor.
The truth is that the semi-permanent exhibition called "Inhabiting a place" was so big, with such a large number of paintings, photographs and sculptures that it is difficult to appreciate it in one day. Furthermore, the exhibitions are located in different rooms, as if by theme. So the basement looks like a huge labyrinth full of art.
The staircase leading down is gigantic and on its walls are painted sea waves and inscriptions.
Once in the place on a giant wall you can find the name of the big exhibition in English. The art exhibition is not only by one artist but by many of them, many Romanian, English, French and other nationalities.
There are numerous guides on the site and they point out the route of six sections, so that no one misses any of the sectors. In general, the exhibition shows a time when people moved to rural areas in search of a different way of life and everything related to this change. I like that quite a lot and I also thought about that possibility.
This big work was at the entrance itself and it was huge and it's called "Cornwall Slate Circle" by the artist Richard Long.
Each of the sectors consisted of a large room with the works of art and their respective explanations. This included at the entrance a big mention of the meaning of what was exhibited there, in this case the sector was called deconstructing clichés, where reference is made to the urban as opposed to the rural or the countryside and its points of view.
I was able to find both photography and oil paintings as well as certain sculptures and objects such as this original table.
Paintings very varied in style, because the artists are different, but this painting that mixes painting with a real-life object such as a shower is very significant.
There were also small works in showcases and larger ones and the variety was always present, some looked very strange and weird.
This painting, for example, looks simple, but the feeling of fog around it is not at all easy to achieve. It is beautiful.
Also on the floor were exhibited like a film alluding to the city and its great movement.
Models of various themes such as cities, places, screens, white cities, black cities. There was so much variety that it was impressive.
This work is called "The city that dreams" by the artist Victor Brauner and I found it interesting, surreal and beautiful.
This other one, called "Ordination of the coastline of Castelfusano, Rome" by the artist Adalberto Libera, has colours that I found very striking.
Another part of the exhibition was called ‘Inhabiting an undefined space’, referring to industrialisation and the areas with and without constructions. Spaces of railways, airports or similar, shopping centres and much more tending to talk about or show works related to different types of urbanity.
The exhibition continued between photographs and paintings in a more than interesting journey.
Then I came to this immense floor-to-ceiling photograph of fog over a city called ‘From the real city to the symbolic city’ by Ahned Mater. Another of the works that I really liked in this great exhibition.
In this same sector there was a series of very colourful and interesting posters to analyse, many of them referring to cinema.
I moved on to another space referring to tributes and traces, where above all there were sculptures or symbolic objects. They refer to the relationship between human beings and their environment, especially in rural or remote areas.
Diversity of materials, objects, forms and ways of exhibiting these relationships varied according to the artist. Everyday objects and others less so, but recognisable to all. Photography was also present in this section, as well as many other things.
The works that most caught my attention in this part of the tour are these tree trunks, I think it was very well done. The work is called ‘In the wood’ and the artist is Giuseppe Penone.
This other one was in a corner and gave a great luminosity, made in copper, steel called ‘Echo-Ecco’ by the artist Francois Bouillon.
This part of the tour was really more than interesting, varied, colourful and above all the fact of being able to see works by so many different artists really enriches the exhibition. I loved it. I know I still have a long way to go, and I will be back soon.
Thank you very much for joining me today, I send you my best regards. See you soon.
Amonet.
All photographs are my own.
Separators created by me in Photoshop.
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