To Celebrate its 15th Anniversary, the Centre Pompidou-Metz Invites Maurizio Cattelan to Reinvent Sundays
To celebrate its fifteenth anniversary, the Centre Pompidou-Metz thinks big and presents “Endless Sunday”, a monumental exhibition spanning the entirety of its exhibition space. Thanks to Maurizio Cattelan’s melancholy yet biting perspective, 400 works from the Centre Pompidou’s collections are brought into dialogue with 40 pieces by the Italian artist, creating a dizzying journey through our modern mythologies.
Designed following the rules of an alphabet, this transhistorical selection features both masterpieces and unexpected artworks. Berger & Berger’s bespoke scenography embraces Shigeru Ban and Jean de Gastines’s architecture, creating an almost hypnotic loop evoking the paradoxical feeling of time being suspended that we tend to associate with Sundays. Designed by Irma Boom, the catalogue builds on this experience and offers a visual and conceptual autobiography of Cattelan’s creative approach.
The exhibition brings together multiple narratives, starting with Maurizio Cattelan’s, but also those of the inmates of the Giudecca Women’s Prison in Venice, who wrote the texts for the exhibition galleries. Inmates from the Metz penitentiary have received training in mediation and will lead several group visits.
Held on Wednesday, May 7th, the exhibition opening brought together an impressive line-up of patrons, friends, philosophers and creators, including Maurizio Cattelan, Chiara Parisi, Laurent Le Bon, Marco Perego, Zoe Saldaña, Ben Harper, Emmanuel Perrotin, Alfred Pacquement, Bernard Blistène, Xavier Rey, Christel & François de Wendel, Laura Turcan, Junette Teng, Marta Papini, Shigeru Ban, Jean de Gastines, Sidival Fila, Berger&Berger, Julie Narbey, Serena Cattaneo Adorno, Floriane de Saint-Pierre, Théo Mercier, Lorenzo Fiaschi, Pascale Cayla, Victoire de Pourtalès, Victoria de Beauvau-Craon, Paolo Zani, Natalie Seroussi, Valérie Duponchelle, Anaël Pigeat, Pauline de La Labolaye, Lotus Mahé, Philippe-Alain Michaud, Marie-Aline Prat, Cécile Larrigaldie, Nicolas Nahab, Akemi Shiraha, Rosa Martinez, Elodie Cazes, Florence Reckinger Taddei… An endless Sunday, just like a promise.
Photo: Michaël Huard
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