SoixanteDixSept — Exhibition — Slash Paris

Past: March 11 → July 16, 2017

SoixanteDixSept Experiment — CPIF, Pontault-Combault Dans le cadre de l’événement SoixanteDixSept mené en commun par trois centres d’art franciliens pour fêter les quarante ans du Cent... 2 - Bien Critique

In 2017, the Centre Pompidou is celebrating its 40th anniversary throughout France. To share the celebration with a wider audience, it will be presenting a completely new programme of exhibitions, outstanding loans and various events throughout the year.

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Exhibitions, shows, concerts and meetings will be staged in 40 French cities in partnership with museums, contemporary art centres, performance halls, a festival, a key player in France’s cultural and artistic fabric and many more.

At the crossroads of different disciplines, the programme for this 40th anniversary illustrates the Centre Pompidou’s commitment to cultural institutions in the regions outside of Paris –— essential players in the dissemination and development of art in our time.

With exhibitions and a festival, three key contemporary art venues in Seine-et- Marne (France’s département no. 77), recall the emblematic date — 1977 — of the opening of the Centre Pompidou, that “power plant for decentralisation”, and revive the spirit of an era on a broad geographic front.

To keep visitors on their toes and ideas on the move, the three art centres will be displaying works created or acquired in 1977, works by artists born in 1977, and works focusing on the Centre Pompidou and its history.

The project takes a look at a specific vision of art and society, a crucial utopic impulse that still fuels contemporary creativity. This reassessment forty years down the track brings an understanding of the museum’s active role in history as a force for conservation but also for shaping a future.

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La Ferme du Buisson

SoixanteDixSept — When Rossellini filmed the centre pompidou

In 1977, Roberto Rossellini devoted his last film to the opening of the Centre Pompidou, as personal testimony to the advent of a new artistic, architectural and cultural modernity. Now, after forty years of neglect, his film has resurfaced. The Italian director approached the museum in a way nobody else ever has, catching spectators’ stunned amazement on the spot. This extraordinary adventure is revealed by hitherto unshown archives from the film’s producer Jacques Grandclaude and Marie Auvity’s documentary account of its making. In response to this remarkable material, works by Brion Gysin, Gordon Matta- Clark and Melvin Moti from the Centre Pompidou collection offer subjective visions of the museum and its history.

The brand new Centre Pompidou opened in 1977, offering the public its first taste of Contemporary art. Roberto Rossellini devoted his last film to this historic moment. In doing so he testified to the advent of a new artistic, architectural and cultural modernity. With a camera constantly on the move and an amazing system of hidden microphones, he filmed the museum in a way nobody else ever has, catching spectators’ stunned amazement on the spot.

Curator Julie Pellegrin.

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frac Île-de-france, le château/ Parc culturel de Rentilly-Michel Chartier — Bussy-Saint-Martin

SoixanteDixSept — Hôtel du Pavot…

Based on Chambre 202, Hôtel du Pavot by Dorothea Tanning, an installation unfolds incorporating works with a Surrealist touch, making play on explicit links with the work of the American artist as regards materials and situations. This relationship with the organic, the Internet and a certain strangeness in Tanning’s work continues in other works, all linked by the year 1977. The second part of the exhibition opens with experimental, forwardlooking forms, particularly from the late Seventies, consisting of films and videos, with works that reveal another relationship with reality — and with works borrowed from other Frac — whether this involves transposing by renewing narrative methods, or intervening: a reality experienced as various experiments with a performative aspect.

Curator Xavier Franceschi

Centre Photographique d’Île-de-France

SoixanteDixSept — Experiment

The CPIF selected works that are emblematic of the 1970s feminist art scene from the collections of the Centre Pompidou, works that bear witness to the extraordinary vitality of artistic experimentation at that time. The artists and art critics invited to react to these emblematic works in the context of this exhibition explore the notion of performance-based experimentation by producing new images, thereby revealing how we are still connected today to this crucial period in contemporary art history.

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Program