La Préhistoire — Centre Georges Pompidou — Exhibition — Slash Paris

Past: May 8 → September 16, 2019

Préhistoire — Centre Pompidou À travers une sélection de 500 œuvres et objets, le Centre Pompidou réactive avec la Préhistoire les grands chantiers d’expositions... 3 - Bravo Critique

With this new exhibition the Centre Pompidou puts the spotlight on the link uniting prehistory to modern and contemporary art. In the course of a chronological tour, discover how artists and society have experienced the attraction of our origins during the modern period, yielding to a fantasy vision of what existed before history.

Louise Bourgeois, Cumul I, 1968 © Louise Bourgeois

A rich collection of more than three hundred works and documents, some specially created for the occasion, shows how prehistoric art established itself not only as an object of fascination but also as a concrete model for varying kinds of experiences. Discover, alongside iconic prehistoric works like the Venus of Lespugue and the Mammoth of the Madeleine, the works of essential modern artists such as Louise Bourgeois, Paul Cézanne and Marguerite Duras, and contemporary artists like Dove Allouche, Pierre Huyghe and Giuseppe Penone. This vast body of works is also complemented by films and books such as Jurassic Park and La Guerre du feu, evoking the dissemination of prehistory in popular culture.