VIEWS FROM ABOVE - Centre Pompidou Metz
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1. A NERO VA VER A AT A AAA OE KARA KARA XA X A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A AA AA AA AA AA AA N A N N A AA A AA AA AA A 2 X X X X X X X X X X X X X X XX XXX XXX XXX CX XXX XX RR KRK KRK KARAKA AAA AAA Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X 2 X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X AAAA AAA AAAA AAAA AAAA CX XX s X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X 5 Y Y Y YYYYYYXXXXXXYXXXXXXYXYXXXXYXYXXXXYXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXY X X X X X Y Y Y Y X Y Y Y X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X CX X X X X X X X X X X XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XXX XXX XX KK K ZK ZK ZK KK K K KK KAKA w CX X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X AUR RR RIS UR RR RR US AURA RR IRA UN RA AS ARA NE 2000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X XA X X X X X A A A A NX X N A CX X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X XA X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X A A A X A A A AX X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X XA X X X X X X A A A A A X NX CX X X X2. COLLECTIVE WORK COORDINATED BY ANGELA LAMPE ISBN 978 2 35983 025 5 Release 18 May 2013 Genre exhibition catalogue Theme visual arts Format 22 x 27 5 cm Otabind binding 432 pages Price including tax EUR 49 ditions du Centre Pompidou Metz 2013 GRAPHIC DESIGN Wijntje van Rooijen amp Pierre P ronnet FRONT COVER PICTURE Berenice Abbott Nightview New York 1932 The Art Institute of Chicago Berenice Abbott Commerce Graphics Courtesy Howard Greenberg Gallery New York CONTENTS 7 10 32 49 50 62 6 78 94 101 102 116 120 136 144 161 162 Alain Seban Foreword Laurent Le Bon Preface Christoph Asendorf The view from above a new way of seeing the world Angela Lampe Overflying the modern era DISPLACEMENT Thierry Gervais Experiments in photography The plunging view from Nadar 1858 to Gaston Tissandier 1885 Laure Jamouille Andr Devambez Thierry Gervais Looking down the Belle Epoque s new perspective Pascal Rousseau Art and air Cubisme de conception and the aerial view FIRST WORLD WAR PLANIMETRICS Jonathan Black The distant Earth British Modernists and the view from the sky circa 1914 1919 Ansje van Beusekom and Carel Blotkamp Piet Mondrian Composition n 5 with colour planes 5 1917 Alexandra Shatskikh The view from above a topology of an avant garde utopia Oliver Botar Lazlo Moholy Na
3. 334 338 342 363 364 374 376 388 393 407 408 412 414 424 Raphael Dallaporta Larisa Dryansky From sky to earth Earthworks and the aerial view Robert Smithson Aerial art 1969 Aur lien Lemonier Land of Men Aur lien Lemonier Michel Desvignes imprinting the landscape URBANISATION Marie Ange Brayer Utopian views from above in experimental architecture 1960 1970 Laure Jamouill Marcel Storr Larisa Dryansky Ed Ruscha Alexandre Quoi The city from above the fragmented urban landscape SUPERVISION Alexandra M ller Supervision s blind spot Sophie Ristelhueber Gilles A Tiberghien Vision and awareness of the Earth through albums of aerial photography since 1945 Mishka Henner Tristan Garcia The raised perspective ANNEXES BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX LIST OF WORKS ON VIEW CREDITS LIST OF AUTHORS Christopher Adams is an assistant curator of the Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art in London He is currently writing his doctorate thesis on the developments of Italian futurism in the 1940s at the University of Essex He has also published various articles in journals such as Baseline Creative Review or Print Quarterly Christoph Asendorf is tenured professor of Kunst und Kunsttheorie at the Kulturwissenschaftliche Fakult t Europa Universit t Viadrina Frankfurt am Main The French translation of his work Super Constellation subtitled L avion et la
4. SOL LEWITT BY SUBTRACTION CLAIRE LAHUERTA UN DIMANCHE UNE EUVRE ONE SUNDAY ONE WORK American artist Sol LeWitt created a series derived from aerial photographs and maps On these views the artist traced geometrical shapes the result of emotional points marked on the map by inter connected anchor points subtracted from the original picture This cut up technique reflects a certain reserve from an artist more renowned for his abstract monumental works revealing here a touching dimension to his work GALERIE 1 WIE 1 0 09 1 3 7 30 P M CUBISM FROM ABOVE CONQUERING THE AIR AND THE INVENTION OF ABSTRACTION PASCAL ROUSSEAU LECTURE Early attempts at flight inspired many avant garde artists who were eager to distance themselves from artistic conventions The airborne view produced new images rich in geometric forms it also showed how advances in technology could impact and transform representations of the world Pascal Rousseau analyses the influences of aeronautics on a generation of Cubist painters 1909 1914 particularly their affirmation of an increasingly abstract conception of painting WENDEL AUDITORIUM WE 29 09 13 AERIAL VIEWS AND CINE SENSATIONS OF THE WORLD TERESA CASTRO LECTURE The history of the aerial view in film is rooted in the communion of the motion picture camera and aerial means of transport This communion prompted a desire to experience the world as cine sensations as though
5. Alexandra Morizet Public Contracts Coordinator Veronique Muller Accounts Assistant Estelle Puss Public Contracts Assistant Department of Building Maintenance and Operation Philippe Hubert Technical Director Christian Bertaux Head of Building Maintenance S bastien Bertaux Chief Electrician Vivien Cassar Technical Coordinator Jean Philippe Currivant Lighting Technical Agent Jean Pierre Del Vecchio Systems and Networks Administrator Pierre Hequet Technician Christian Heschung Head of Information Systems St phane Leroy Operation Manager Andr Martinez Head of Security Jean David Puttini Painter Department of Communications and Development Annabelle T rkis Head of Department Charline Burger Communication and Events Officer No mie Gotti Communication and Press Officer Marie Christine Haas Multimedia Communications Officer Anne Laure Miller Communication Officer Am lie Watiez Communication and Events Officer Department of Production Anne Sophie Royer Head of Department Charline Becker Project Manager Alexandre Chevalier Galleries Registrar Olivia Davidson Project Manager Jennifer Gies Project Manager Thibault Leblanc Live Performance Technician Eleonore Mialonier Works Registrar Fanny Moinel Project Manager Marie Pessiot Live Performance Production Officer Irene Pomar Project Manager Jeanne Simoni Production Assistant Julie Schweitzer Works Manager Department
6. use of drones This panoptic supervision extends to the civilian world too in the proliferation of city centre CCTV but also through the launch in 2005 of a readily available resource such as Google Earth which has inspired contemporary artists On another level aerial photography is a means of monitoring the planet s health and for many contemporary photographers a way to alert the population to environmental threats Some such as France s Yann Arthus Bertrand exploit the visual impact of these images others such as the American Alex MacLean explore their capacity to reveal the landscape s underlying mechanisms Alex MacLean Big Dimensions 30 avril 2010 C print 30 x 40 cm Courtesy the artist and Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie Paris Alex MacLean Courtesy Dominique Carr On the occasion of the exhibition an exceptional order was commissioned to Yann Arthus Bertrand who has shot aerial views of the city of Metz and the metropolitan area of Metz M tropole This project is funded by the Communaut d Agglom ration de Metz M tropole VIEWS FR0M ABOVE FOCUS ON ECHO D ECHOS FROM ABOVE WORK IN SITU 20117 The monumental work by Daniel Buren Echo d chos From Above work in situ 2011 is shown until the end of the exhibition Views from above Daniel Buren has created cho d chos From Above work in situ 2011 for the terrace of Galery 1 as an extension of his exhibition Echos work in situ 2011
7. Mart Museo di arte Moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto TRENTO Museo dell Aeronautica Gianni Caproni NETHERLANDS ROTTERDAM Nai Nederlands Architectuurinstituut SPAIN MADRID Museo Thyssen Bornemisza Madrid VIEWS FROM ABOVE SWITZERLAND ADLIGENSWILL Chantal and Jakob Bill Collection BASEL Beyeler Foundation Riehen Basel BERN Zentrum Paul Klee GENEVA Mus es d art et d histoire de la Ville de Geneve ZURICH Galerie Gmurzynska UNITED KINGDOM LONDON Archive of Modern Conflict Galerie Hauser amp Wirth Imperial War Museum Tate UNITED STATES AUSTIN TX Enspire Harry Ransom Center University of Texas at Austin BURBANK CA Warner Bros CHESTER CT LeWitt Collection CHICAGO The Art Institute of Chicago College Park MD National Archives and Records Administration COLORADO SPRINGS CO Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center LONG ISLAND CITY NY The Noquchi Museum NEW YORK Amy Plumb Oppenheim Collection Pace Mac Gill Gallery David Zwirner Gallery Moeller Fine Art Ltd The Museum of Modern Art Time amp Life Pictures Getty Images Pace Gallery ROCHESTER NY George Eastman House SANTA BARBARA CA The Estate of R Buckminster Fuller SANTA MONICA CA Eames Office WASHINGTON D C Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Smithsonian Institution And other lenders who wish to remain anonymous VIEWS FR0M ABOVE CATALOGUE
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11. art Alexandre Quoi Research and Exhibition Manager Centre Pompidou Metz Associate Curator for Film Teresa Castro Senior Lecturer Universit Paris III Associate Curator for Photography Thierry Gervais Assistant Professor Ryerson University Toronto Associate Curator for Architecture Aur lien Lemonier Curator National Museum of Modern Art Centre Pompidou Project Managers Charline Becker Olivia Davidson Jennifer Gies Scenographers Sylvain Roca Nicolas Groult assisted by Valentina Dodi and Audrey Guimard The Galerie 1 scenography was designed from original elements conceived for the 1917 exhibition by architect museographer Didier Blin Graphic design Wijntje van Rooijen amp Pierre P ronnet Publishing Claire Bonnevie Research Manager Laure Jaumouill Production Manager Floriane Benjamin AN Production Manager Jeanne Simoni Collection Registrar Julie Schweitzer Space Registrar Clitous Bramble Alexandre Chevalier Operations Manager St phane Leroy Lighting Design Julia Kravtsova Vyara Stefanova AN Design and Coordination Jean Pierre Del Vecchio Christine Hall Christian Heschung AN and Lighting Installation S bastien Bertaux Vivien Cassar Jean Pierre Currivant Pierre Hequet Museographic Layout SF Sans Fronti re Painting Debra Electrical Set up Cofely Services Ineo GDF Suez Lighting MPM Equipement S
12. revolution de l espace L influence de l a ronautique sur les arts et la culture modernes was published by Macula in 2013 Ansje van Beusekom studied art history at the VU University Amsterdam where she received her doctorate in 1998 Her thesis was published in 2001 under the title Kunst en Amusement Reacties op de film als een nieuw medium in Nederland 1895 1940 Arcadia 2001 She currently teaches film history at Utrecht University Jonathan Black defended a thesis on masculinity and the image of the British soldier in World War at the University of London in 2003 Among other works he has published Form Feeling and Calculation The Complete Paintings and Drawings of Edward Wadsworth 1889 1949 P Wilson 2006 and The Face of Courage Eric Kennington Portraiture and the Second World War Royal Air Force Museum 2011 Carel Blotkamp is professor emeritus of modern art history at the VU University Amsterdam as well as an exhibition curator art critic and artist He is the author of various monographs dedicated to Piet Mondrian Pyke Koch Ad Dekkers and Carel Visser He has also edited works on the legacy of symbolism De Stijl and realistic tendencies in the 1920s and 1930s VIEWS FROM ABOVE Julien Bondaz defended a doctorate thesis entitled L Exposition postcoloniale Formes et usages des mus es et des zoos en Afrique de l Ouest at the Universit Lumiere Lyon 2 in 2009 As a postdoctoral researcher at t
13. 2003 and Sous influence R surgences de l hypnose dans l art contemporain Lausanne Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts 2006 Aleksandra Shatskikh who graduated from the Moscow State University is one of the world experts on the Russian avant garde She is the author of numerous articles and works on the subject Kazimir Malevich Collected Works in Five Volumes Moscow Gilea 1995 2004 Vitebsk Life of Art 1917 1922 Yale University Press 2007 and Black Square Malevich and the Origin of Suprematism Yale University Press 2012 Gilles A Tiberghien a philosopher and professor of aesthetics lectures at the Universit Paris Pantheon Sorbonne and the Versailles Higher School of Landscape Design He is an editorial board member of the Cahiers du Mus e national d art moderne and the Carnets du Paysage He has written various works on art in landscapes including Land Art which was republished by Dominique Carr in 2012 Marek Wieczorek who graduated from Columbia University teaches art history at the University of Washington The author of a thesis on Piet Mondrian he has also published numerous articles and contributed to various works on European avant gardes and De Stijl in particular He has recently curated exhibitions on Joe Davis and Carel Balth in Seattle VIEWS FR0M ABOVE PROGRAMME OF CULTURA EVENTS AROUND THE EXHIBITION AS PART OF THE FRANCO GERMAN PROJECT TRANSFABRIK PERSPECTIVES CENTRE
14. BNER Oscar GRIAULE Marcel GROPIUS Walter GURSKY Andreas H HADJITHOMAS Joana et JOREIGE Khalil HALLO Charles Jean HAVILAND Paul HEARTFIELD John HENNER Mishka HINE Lewis Wickes HOOVER H Earl HUTCHINSON Peter l ICHAC Pierre IGNATOVITCH Boris J JOHNSON Dano and TRAVIS Jeffrey K KANDINSKY Vassily KERTESZ Andr KLEE Paul KLIER Michael KLUCIS Gustav KONRAD Aglaia KOOLHAAS Rem KRULL Germaine L LALANNE Fran ois Xavier LANDAU Ergy LE CORBUSIER LEGER Fernand LEONARD Zoe LEWIS Mark LEWITT Sol LISSITZKY El LOTAR Eli LUMI RE Auguste and Louis M MACLEAN Alex MALEVITCH Kasimir MAN RAY MARINETTI Filippo Tommaso MASOERO Filippo MATTHEUER Wolfgang MOHOLY NAGY L szl MOLE Arthur S and THOMAS John D MONDRIAN Piet MONET Claude MORRIS Robert N NADAR Gaspard F lix Tournachon known as NAMUTH Hans NAPANGARDI RUBY Rose Yarraya NEUBRONNER Julius NEVINSON Christopher NOGUCHI Isamu 0 O KEEFFE Georgia OPPENHEIM Dennis OTTO Frei OUD Jacobus Johannes Pieter P PERRAULT Dominique PETSCH0W Robert PICASSO Pablo POLKE Sigmar POLLOCK Jackson R RICHTER Gerhard RIEFENSTAHL Leni RISTELHUEBER Sophie ROH Franz ROVNER Michal RUSCHA Ed S SCHELCHER Andr SCHIELE Egon SCHUM Gerry SEVERINI Gino SHEELER Charles SMITHSON Robert SOUIETINE Nikolai STEICHEN Edward STEVENS Albert William STORR Marcel STRAND Paul SUPERSTUDIO T TATO Guglielmo SANSONI known as THIEL Frank
15. D EN EQUILIBRE SUR L UVRE DE MAN RAY MARCEL DUCHAMP LEVAGE DE POUSSIERE THE RIGHT DISTANCE A GLIMPSE IN EQUILIBRIUM AT DUST BREEDING BY MAN RAY MARCEL DUCHAM CLAIRE LAHUERTA UN DIMANCHE UNE UVRE ONE SUNDAY ONE WORK In 1920 after letting a certain amount of dust accumulate on his Large Glass Marcel Duchamp traced the thickened outline of his own work in it The scene photographed by Man Ray became a bicephalous work of art signed by both artists This bird s eye view on the dust accumulated atop Duchamp s work first entitled View taken from an airplane by Man Ray gt is one of the major photographs of the Dada and Surrealist periods GRANDE NEF WE 08 06 19 vorm LA VUE D EN HAUT UN REGARD DES TEMPS MODERNES 1500 2000 BIRD S EYE VIEW A MODERN TIMES PERSPECTIVE CHRISTOPH ASENDORF LECTURE The bird s eye view is one of the ways of making the world your own these ways like central perspective are closely connected with the birth of modern times The 17 century baroque city already seemed designed for aerial views that were to become a reality with hot air balloons then aviation During the 205 century aeronautics and astronautics deeply altered our cultural system among other things this new perception of space radically transformed the artistic representations of the world To mark the Bird s eye view exhibition Macula is publishing the first French translatio
16. Kazimir Malevich invented suprematism in 1915 Under the impetus of the Hungarian L szl Moholy Nagy among others the celebrated Bauhaus school in Germany progressively opened up to modern technology after relocating in 1925 to the town of Dessau home to the aircraft manufacturer Junkers Vassily Kandinsky Akzent in Rosa 1926 Oilon canvas 100 5 x 80 5 cm Centre Pompidou Mus e national d art moderne Paris ADAGP Paris 2013 O Centre Pompidou MNAM CCI Dist RMN Grand Palais Philippe Migeat VIEWS FR0M ABOVE EXTENSION Inside an airplane the field of vision is extended as the viewer becomes immersed in a vast space with multiple perspectives L szl Moholy Nagy referred to a more complete space experience Like fellow Hungarian Andor Weininger he looked for ways to transcribe the effects of simultaneity into innovative stage designs In a similar vein the artist Herbert Bayer revolutionised the conventions of display by occupying gallery space from floor to ceiling Members of the De Stijl group led by Theo van Doesburg did away with the fixed vanishing point and developed an expanding architecture that was rooted in axonometric drawing Theo van Doesburg Composition X 1918 Oil on canvas 64 x 4b cm Centre Pompidou Mus e national d art moderne Paris Centre Pompidou MNAM CCI Dist RMN Grand Palais Philippe Migeat DETACHMENT In the mid 1920s L szl Moholy Nagy laid the groundwork for
17. Nazi propaganda films At the same time aerial views inspired Le Corbusier for his city plans for Rio de Janeiro and Algiers both radical transformations of the existing landscape In the United States airborne photography and in particular that of Margaret Bourke White became an effective tool for promoting an image of American supremacy in the pages of newly launched magazines such as LIFE which debuted in 1936 Tullio Crali In tuffo sulla citt 1939 Oilon canvas 130 x 155 cm Museo d arte moderna e contemporaneo di Trento e Rovereto Rovereto GALERIE 1 As civil aviation developed after the war airborne views of the landscape below became a rich source of inspiration for artists particularly in the United States Jackson Pollock s drippings were a first tipping point following which maps provided a new model for abstract painting of the 1950s and 1960s Since the 1920s aerial archaeology had revealed sites which at ground level remained hidden from view It later provided a reference for land artists who from the late 1960s took art out into the open They too made use of elevated perspectives when documenting their often fleeting interventions on the vast scale of nature The same overhead view enabled architects and urban planners such as Michel Desvigne or Frei Otto to place their constructions within the perspective of their surroundings e 3 a Te M u Jackson P
18. POMPIDOU METZ AND THE FESTIVAL PERSPECTIVES PRESENT A SERIES OF EVENTS IN METZ AND SARREBRUCK TRANSPABRIK TRANSFABRIK was initiated by the French Institute in cooperation with the Goethe Institute and with the support of Hauptstadtkulturfonds Berlin the Ministry of Foreign Affairs the Ministry of Culture and Communication and OFAJ It also receives support from Total and SACD This project is part of the Franco German Year the fiftieth anniversary of the Elys e Treaty TOTAL EB opa ES F7 vs SNS Co man BT DFJW PACT Zollverein Essen HAU Hebbel am Ufer Berlin Kampnagel Hambourg Th tre de la Cit internationale Paris Centre Pompidou Metz Le Quartz Scene nationale de Brest Festival Perspectives Sarrebruck Coll ge des Bernardins Paris Atelier de Paris Carolyn Carlson Festival JUNE EVENTS Les Spectacles vivants Centre Pompidou Paris and the Rencontres chor graphiques internationales de Seine Saint Denis FRI 17 05 13 ON 20 05 13 17 05 13 so PERSPECTIVES LE TEMPS DE VOIR VOLKSBALLONS PEOPLES S BALLOONS PERSPECTIVES TIME TO SEE EVA MEVER KELLER KITSOU DUBOIS PERFORMANCE INSTALLATION In 1990 Kitsou Dubois participated in a parabolic flight with the National Centre for Space Studies Centre National d tudes Spatiales CNES thus experiencing a few minutes of weightlessness She took hold of that extraordinary experience to find a new way of exploring body movement and environ
19. TILLMANS Wolfgang TISSANDIER Gaston TOBEY Mark U UMBO Otto Umbehr known as UTAGAWA Sadahide V VALLOTON F lix VANTONGERLOO Georges VOSTELL Wolf W WADSWORTH Edward Alexandrer WEININGER Andor WENZ mile WYLER William AUSTRIA VIENNA Albertina Vienna BELGIUM ANTWERP Collection Sylvio Perlstein Anvers FRANCE BEAUVAIS Mus e d partemental de l Oise CHALON SUR SA NE Mus e Nic phore Ni pce Ville de Ch lon sur Sa ne GRENOBLE Mus e de Grenoble IVRY SUR SEINE ECPAD MARNE LA VALLEE The Walt Disney Company France METZ 49 NORD 6 EST Frac Lorraine NANCY Mus e des beaux arts de Nancy NEUILLY SUR SEINE Turner Broadcasting System France NANTERRE Biblioth que de documentation internationale contemporaine BDIC PALAISEAU EPI Diffusion VIEWS FROM ABOVE LENDERS PARIS Altitude photography agency Association Fr res Lumiere Association Mus e Air France Biblioth que historique de la Ville de Paris Biblioth que nationale de France Centre Pompidou Mus e national d art moderne Collection Liliane et Bertrand Kempf Collection Ghislain Mollet Vieville 4 Ecole nationale superieure des beaux arts Collection Xavier Barral NASA JPL University of Arizona Fondation Le Corbusier Galerie Bugada amp Cargnel Marian Goodman Gallery Galerie In Situ Galerie Kamel Mennour Galerie Catherine Putman Galerie Daniel Templon Maison europ enne de
20. The Richard Diebenkorn Foundation Migeat Centre Pompidou MNAM CCI Dist RMN Grand Palais Droits Pring PNE ATS Center reserves LI Tullio Crali In tuffo sulla citt 1939 Andreas Gursky Pyongyang V 2007 El Lissitzky Proun G 7 1923 OiLon plywood 60x 80 cm Photography 397 x 215 cm Tempera varnish and pencil on canvas 77 x 62cm Museo d arte moderna e contemporaneo di Trento e Rovereto Adagp Paris 2013 Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg Kunstsammlung Nordrhein Westfalen D sseldorf Rovereto Kunstsammlung Nordrhein Westfalen D sseldorf Walter Klein D sseldorf VIEWS FR0M ABOVE Filippo Masoero Veduta aerea dinamizzata del Georgia O Keeffe Drawing X Dessin X 1959 Foro Romano aerodinamica 1930 Charcoal on paper 63 2 x 47 3 cm Silver gelatine print 24 4 x 31 6 cm The Museum of Modern Art New York Don de Abby Aldrich Touring Club Italiano Archive Milan Rockefeller par change MoMA Georgia O Keeffe Museum ADAGP Paris 2013 2013 Digital Image The Museum of Modern Art New York Scala Florence Laszlo Moholy Nagy Funkturm Berlin 1928 Ed Ruscha Wen Out for Cigrets 1985 Silver gelatine print pasted on cardboard 24 5 x 18 9 cm Oil and enamel on canvas 162 6 x162 6 cm Centre Pompidou Mus e national d art moderne O Collection Sylvio Perlstein Anvers Belgique O ADAGP Paris 2013 Ed Ruscha O Centre Pompidou MNAM CCI Dist RMN Grand Palais Georges Meguerditchian
21. V V V V V V V V V V V V V V V V V V V V V V V V V V V V V V V V V V V V V V V V V V V VIEWS FR0M ABOVE CONTENTS GENERAL PRESENTATION 02 STRUCTURE OF THE EXHIBITION 03 GRANDE NEF UPHEAVAL PLANIMETRY EXTENSION ALIENATION DOMINATION 04 GALERIE 1 TOPOGRAPHY URBANISATION SUPERVISION asa 06 FOCUS ON ECHO D CHOS FROM ABOVE WORK IN SITU 2011 BY DANIEL BUREN 08 LIST OF EXHIBITED ARTISTS 09 LENDERS 10 CATALOGUE 12 PROGRAMME OF CULTURAL EVENTS AROUND THE EXHIBITION 16 RS E E 19 PARTNERS 22 VISUALS AVAILABLE FOR THE PRESS 23 VIEWS FR0M ABOVE GENERAL PRESENTATION VIEWS FROM ABOVE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC FROM 17 MAY TO 7 OCTOBER 2013 GRANDE NEF AND GALERIE 1 Views from above considers how an elevated perspective from the first aerial photographs of the mid nineteenth century to the satellite images has transformed artists perception of the world Covering more than two thousand square metres the exhibition gives us the power of Icarus and in some five hundred works paintings photographs drawings films architecture models installations books and journals offers a singular and spectacular view of modern and contemporary art There has been a considerable regain in int
22. Vice President Philippe Bard President of Demathieu amp Bard Treasurer Lotus Mah Art Historian Secretary General Tristan Garcia Assistant to the Secretary General VIEWS FR0M ABOVE PARINERS The exihibition Views from above is a Centre Pompidou Metz production Centre Pompidou Metz is the first offshoot of a French cultural institution Centre Pompidou developed in collaborationwith a regional authority the Communaute d Agglomeration Metz Metropole Centre Pompidou Metz is an Etablissement Public de Coop ration Culturelle public establishment for cultural cooperation whose founding members are the French State Centre Pompidou the Lorraine Region Communaut d Agglom ration de Metz M tropole and the City of Metz Financial support is provided by Wendel its founding sponsor entre N MI Lorraine M Pompidou pm BD Moselle Conseil G n ral COMMUNAUT D AGGLOM RATION GRAND MECENE DE LA CULTURE The exhibition Views from above is supported by Caisse d Epargne Lorraine Champagne Ardenne and Amis du Centre Pompidou Metz Les A eq aik CAISSE D EPARGNE eS AMIS QU Ww E LORRAINE CHAMPAGNE ARDENNE Centre Pompidou Metz With the participation of Air France AIRFRANCE In media partnership with NEWS 24 7 orraln The Views from above exhibition is aided by the Metz support area Zone de Soutien de Metz It is also supported by the National Institute of Geographic and F
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24. a new aesthetic that would influence modernist photography throughout Europe At the heart of this New Vision which champions unexpected vantage points such as the high angle view lies a complex perception of the world Sense of scale disappears blurring the distinction between near and far the world seen from above appears to recede from view The act of seeing becomes a constructive process As in Brecht s theory of distanciation the spectator becomes aware of his power to determine perspective Inspired by the energy and weightlessness of the modern age photographers captured urban scenes bridges squares railway lines from high up while introducing a dreamlike even fantasy quality to their images Umbo Unheimliche Strasse 1928 Silver gelatine print 35 5 x 27 9 cm Centre Pompidou Mus e national d art moderne Paris O Gallery Kicken Berlin Phyllis Umbehr ADAGP Paris 2013 Centre Pompidou MNAM CCI Dist RMN Grand Palais Herv V ron se VIEWS FR0M ABOVE DOMINATION The thrill and excitement of seeing the world from above procures a sense o power Such an elevated view is ideally suited to the synchronised choreographies for which in 1927 the German intellectual Siegfried Kracauer coined the notion of mass ornament with explicit reference to the aerial view Set parallel to the rise of totalitarian ideologies this domineering vision was adopted both by futurism s Aeropittura aeropainting and by
25. allace Black in 1860 in Boston broke with the central perspective inherited from the Renaissance No longer confined to eye level the panoramic view discovered a seemingly flattened world The earth unfolds into an enormous unbounded carpet with neither beginning nor end wrote Nadar Spectacular plunging views made popular by the burgeoning illustrated press and the early cinema were echoed by the increasingly elevated vantage point which impressionist painters chose for their depictions of urban scenes Fascinated by the fast developing world of aviation cubist artists such as Picasso Braque L ger and Delaunay looked for ways to match this technological revolution by fragmenting conventional three dimensional space Robert Delaunay Eiffel Tower and Gardens Champ de Mars 1922 OiLon canvas 178 1 x 170 4 cm Smithsonian Institution Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Washigton D C The Joseph H Hirshhorn Bequest 1981 Photo Lee Stalsworth PLANIMETRICS With its tens of thousands of trench photographs taken from a vertical perspective as well as films and military maps the First World War provided a fascinating iconography for avant garde artists seeking to go beyond mimetic illusion These aerial shots whose linear structure had neither horizon nor scale emerged at the same time as abstract painting both in England in the work of vorticist painter Edward Wadsworth in particular and in Russia where
26. erest in the aerial view over recent years From the success of Yann Arthus Bertrand s Earth From Above to the popularity of Google Earth we are fascinated by this bird s eye view as much for the beauty of the landscapes it reveals as for the feeling of omnipotence it inspires The exhibition draws on this popularity to return to the origins of aerial photography and explore its impact on the work of artists and consequently the history of art When Nadar took his first aerial photographs from a hot air balloon in the 1860s he freed the gaze To contemplate the world not at eye level but from a flying machine was to destroy the perspective thinking of the Renaissance based on the human scale The moving floating body is no longer the fixed point that conditions our vision of space This new panoramic view blurs landmarks and relief slowly transforming the land into a flat surface whose visual reference points are no longer distinguishable one from the other Right up to today artists photographers architects and film makers have continued to explore the aesthetic and semantic implications of this displaced perspective Now this fascinating journey is the subject of an unprecedented multidisciplinary exhibition The exhibition unfolds in eight themed sections displacement planimetrics extension detachment domination topography urbanisation supervision that travel through the modern era marked by two world war
27. gy and the aerial view Hans Georg Hiller von Gaertringen Between reality and abstraction Wassily Kandinsky Paul Klee and aerial photography EXTENSION Marek Wieczorek De Stilj the vision from within 172 184 188 195 196 208 228 232 241 242 248 258 262 270 276 283 284 288 292 VIEWS FROM ABOVE Oliver Botar Disruption of the senses or the formation of the senses for modernity the art of ilinx and the European avant garde Brenda Danilowitz Josef Albers a free vision Alexandre Quoi Herbert Bayer and the extended view DETACHMENT Georges Didi Huberman Thinking sideways Olivier Lugon Aerial view plunging view New Vision Alexandre Quoi The Marseille transporter bridge Laure Jamouille Robert Petschow DOMINATION Christopher Adams Perspectives on Aeropittura Teresa Castro Mass ornament from Weimar to Hollywood Aurelien Lemonnier An accusatory view Le Corbusier and the city viewed from the sky Ga lle Morel Margaret Bourke White Julie Jones Photography from above and popular culture in the United States from the Great Depression to the Cold War SECOND WORLD WAR TOPOGRAPHY Laure Jamouille Aerial abstraction Philippe Peltier Dream time site and world vision Julien Bondaz and Teresa Castro The land seen from the sky Aerial photography and social sciences from one war to another 300 304 314 316 322 325 326
28. he Mus e du quai Branly he has explored the history of colonial era ethnographic and zoological collecting He is currently pursuing research on patrimonialization in West Africa Oliver Botar is a professor of art history at the University of Manitoba Canada An expert on Central European Modernism he is the author of Technical Detours The Early Moholy Nagy reconsidered 2006 and Biocentrism and Modernism with Isabel W nsche 2011 He is currently preparing an exhibition on L szl Moholy Nagy which will be held at the ICA in Winnipeg and at the Bauhaus Archiv in Berlin in 2014 Marie Ange Brayer an art historian was an assistant curator at the Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels 1991 1993 then a resident at the Villa Medici in Rome where she conducted a study on cartography in contemporary art Since 1996 she has been the director of the Centre region Frac in Orl ans whose collection focuses on the connection between art and experimental architecture Teresa Castro an art historian and Doctor in film studies lectures at the Universit Paris Ill Sorbonne Nouvelle She is currently pursuing research into visual culture issues She also works as a critic and a film programmer in collaboration with various publications and venues She is the author of La Pens e cartographique des images Cin ma et culture visuelle Al as 2011 Brenda Danilowitz an art historian is head curator at the Josef and Anni A
29. hipping and Packing Andr Chenue S A Hanging Services Crown Fine Art Artwork Insurance Blackwall Green Restauration Pascale Accoyer Elodie Aparicio Bentz Pascale Hafner Elodie Texier Inspection Dekra Industrial Security Andr Martinez SGP Lorraine Fire Safety Service D partemental d Incendie et de Secours de la Moselle Mediation Phone R gie Mediation Assistants Anne Marine Guiberteau Dominique Oukkal Audio Guides Sycomore Trainees Marine Charles Juliette Chevalier Ilana Eloit Maureen Gontier Anne Horvath Julie Larouer Mathilde Poup e Rebecca Samanci Elizaveta Shagina 1 CENTRE POMPIDOU METZ BOARD OF DIRECTORS President Alain Seban President of Centre Pompidou Honorary President Jean Marie Rausch Vice President Jean Luc Bohl President of Metz M tropole Metz M tropole Representatives Jean Luc Bohl President Antoine Fonte Vice President Pierre Gandar Community Councillor Patrick Grivel Community Councillor Thierry Hory Vice President Pierre Muel Associate Councillor William Schuman Community Councillor Centre Pompidou Representatives Alain Seban President Agnes Saal General Director Jean Marc Auvray Director of Financial and Legal Affairs Bernard Blistene Director of Cultural Development Donald Jenkins Director of Visitor Services Frank Madlener Director of Institute for Music Acoustic Research and Coordinati
30. iversit Paris Panth on Sorbonne Angela Lampe received a doctorate in art history at the Universit Paris Panth on Sorbonne in 1999 before Joining the Kunsthalle Bielefeld in Germany Since 2005 she has been the curator of modern art at the National Museum of Modern Art Centre Pompidou She has curated numerous exhibitions most recently including Traces du Sacr with Jean de Loisy 2008 Marc Chagall et l avant garde russe 2010 2011 and Edvard Munch l il moderne with Clement Ch roux 2011 2012 Aur lien Lemonier a state architect and graduate in the history and theory of architecture is currently writing a doctorate thesis on Roger Tallon at the Universit Paris Panth on Sorbonne Since 2009 he has been the curator of the Centre Pompidou Architecture department Among others he curated the De Stijl exhibition 2010 Olivier Lugon a Doctor in art history is a professor at the University of Lausanne An expert in history of Inter war German and American photography documentary photography and exhibition scenography he recently published Fixe anim croisements de la photographie et du cin ma au xx si cle co edited with Laurent Guido and Exposition et medias photographie cinema television Lausanne LAge d Homme 2010 and 2012 VIEWS FROM ABOVE Gaelle Morel is a curator at the Ryerson Image Centre in Toronto The thesis she defended under the supervision of Philippe Dagen wa
31. la photographie Mobilier National Manufactures des Gobelins de Beauvais de la Savonnerie Mus e de l Arm e Mus e d art moderne de la Ville de Paris Mus e national Picasso Mus e d Orsay Mus e du quai Branly Observatoire du Land Art Soci t francaise de photographie SAINT OUEN Gaumont Path Archives GERMANY BERLIN Akademie der K nste Kunstsammlung Bauhaus Archiv Berlin Berlinische Galerie Landesmuseum f r Moderne Kunst Fotografie und Architektur BPK Bildagentur Preussischer Kulturbesitz Bildagentur f r Kunst Kultur und Geschichte Bundesarchiv COLOGNE Galerie Gisela Capitain Galerie Priska Pasquer Galerie Thomas Rehbein Museum Ludwig Cologne Theaterwissenschaftliche Sammlung University of Cologne Germany The Estate of Sigmar Polke DESSAU Archiv Bernd Junkers D SSELDORF Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer Kunstsammlung Nordrhein Westfalen FRANKFURT AM MAIN Art Collection Deutsche B rse Deutsche B rse AG St del Museum Frankfurt am Main HANOVER Sprengel Museum Kurt und Ernst Schwitters Stiftung KARLSRUHE S dwestdeutches Archiv f r Architektur und Ingenieurbau Karlsruher Institut f r Technologie KIT Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe MUNICH Ketterer Kunst M nchner Stadtmuseum REMAGEN Landes Stiftung Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck WOLFSBURG Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg ITALY MILAN Touring Club Italiano Archive ROVERETO
32. lbers Foundation Besides curating numerous exhibitions she has also edited To Open Eyes Josef Albers at the Bauhaus Black Mountain and Yale Phaidon 2006 and Anni and Josef Albers Latin American Journeys Hatje Cantz 2007 and published various essays and articles particularly on South African art and photography Georges Didi Huberman a philosopher and art historian lectures at the School for Advanced Studies in Social Science He is the author of some forty works on the history and theory of image spanning a broad field of study from Renaissance to contemporary art including 19th century scientific iconography issues and their use by 20th century art movements Larisa Dryansky an alumna of the Paris cole normale sup rieure Ulm is a professor at the Universit Paris Sorbonne Paris IV The publication of her doctorate thesis entitled D placements Les usages de la cartographie et de la photographie dans l art am ricain des ann es 1960 et du d but des ann es 1970 is in progress co published by CTHS and INHA Tristan Garcia a Doctor in philosophy and writer is an unclassifiable iconoclast He is the author of several essays including Forme et objet Un trait des choses PUF 2011 and Six Feet Under Nos vies sans destin PUF 2012 and four novels the first of which entitled Hate A Romance La Meilleure Part des hommes was one of the literary events of 2008 Thierry Gervais is an assis
33. mental perception During her last flight number 19 in March 2000 she was able to embark cameras on an Airbus A300 ZERO 6 for the first time to film in 3D relief With Perspectives time to see the spectator is given the opportunity to share this unique experience through unprecedented images together with the Bulle Bubble installation In the framework of the TRANSFABRIK project and the Night of Museums FOYER WENDEL AUDITORIUM AND STUDIO ACCESS DURING REGULAR OPENING HOURS Artist Eva Meyer Keller offers an unusual performance at the Centre Pompidou Metz Forum figurines representing Little GDR soldiers as well as cowboys and Indians shaped in ice are tied to helium filled balloons Gradually the balloons rise and lift the melting figures off the ground The project was created in 2004 for the Volkspalast in Berlin an international cultural project using the Palace of the Republic in Berlin as a temporary venue before it was demolished Idea concept Eva Meyer Keller Coproduced by Eva Meyer Keller and ZWISCHEN PALAST NUTZUNG e V FORUM VIEWS FR0M ABOVE t 17 05 13 MELODRAME MELODRAMA ESZTER SALAMON DRAMA PERFORMANCE M lodrame Melodrama is a solo in the form of a documentary performance during which Eszter Salamon re activates the interviews she had with a woman living in Southern Hungary who by pure coincidence bears the same name as her While reading the words of her homonym
34. n of Christoph Asendorf s works under the title Super constellation L influence de l a ronautique sur les arts et la culture translated from German by Didier Renault preface by Angela Lampe 528 pages EUR 35 WENDEL AUDITORIUM VIEWS FR0M ABOVE SUN 09 06 13 10 30 A M AND 11 45 A M ANCRER L INFINI ROUND THE WORLD SAM FRANCIS CLAIRE LAHUERTA UN DIMANCHE UNE UVRE ONE SUNDAY ONE WORK In 1944 after enlisting in the army American artist Sam Francis was badly injured in a plane accident Confined to his bed for years he had to transcend his practice and explore a different way of painting In such a context of cataleptic experience he developed a novel perspective on landscapes his memory generating those huge landscape spaces in which the core becomes a figure and the impression a sensation GALERIE 1 SUN 23 06 13 10 30 A M AND 11 45 A M THE TRE DES OP RATIONS AUTOUR DE QUELQUES PHOTOGRAPHIES DE LA SERIE FAIT DE SOPHIE RISTELHUEBER THEATRE OF OPERATIONS AROUND PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE FAIT SERIES BY SOPHIE RISTELHUEBER ARNAUD D JEAMMES UN DIMAWCHE UNE EUVRE ONE SUNDAY ONE WORK An operation whether military or medical leaves scars on bodies and landscapes This lecture tackles the work of Sophie Ristelhueber in the light of surgical strikes and wars seen from above GALERIE 1 SUN 07 07 13 10 30 A M AND 11 45 A M CARTOGRAPHIES AFFECTIVES SOL LEWITT PAR SOUSTRACTION EMOTIONAL MAPPING
35. of Programming H l ne Guenin Head of Department Claire Bonnevie Editor G raldine Celli Auditorium Wendel Programming Officer H l ne Meisel Research and Exhibition Officer Alexandra M ller Research and Exhibitions Officer Dominique Oukkal Manufacturing Coordinator Alexandre Quoi Research and Exhibition Officer lodie Stroecken Coordination Assistant VIEWS FROM ABOVE Department of Visitor Relations Aur lie Dablanc Head of Department Fedoua Bayoudh Visitor Relations and Tourism Officer Djamila Clary Visitor Relations and Sales Officer Jules Coly Visitor Relations Information and Accessibility Officer Anne Marine Guiberteau Youth Programming and Educational Activities Officer Benjamin Milazzo Visitor Relations and Membership Officer Anne Oster Schools Relations Officer Trainees Charlotte Boulch Flaurette Gautier Maureen Gontier Anna Liliana Hennig Anne Horvath Nicolas Huber Julie Larouer Lucille Louvencourt Laurent Muller Oliiver Bloch Rebecca Samanci Elodie Vitrano FRIENDS OF THE CENTRE POMPIDOU METZ Friends of the Centre Pompidou Metz is a non profit organisation whose purpose is to accompany the Centre in its cultural projects and to enlist the support of the business world and private individuals who wish to make their contribution Jean Jacques Aillagon Former Minister of Culture President Ernest Antoine Seilliere Chairman of the Wendel Supervisory Board
36. ollock Painting Silver over Black White Yellow and Red 1948 Painting on paper on canvas 1 x 80 cm Centre Pompidou Mus e national d art moderne Paris ADAGP Paris 2013 O Centre Pompidou MNAM CCI Dist RMN Grand Palais Philippe Migeat VIEWS FR0M ABOVE URBANISATION While the dynamic of the vertical city dominated the pre war urban vision come the 1960s the sprawling yet fragmented urban fabric which like Los Angeles was dissolving into a disembodied means of travelling from point A to point B had begun to intrigue artists such as Ed Ruscha Their work sidestepped the visual codes of the sublime yet fictional synthesist representation of the modern city instead inviting a more critical reading of the aerial approach German photographer Wolfgang Tilmans leaves us to contemplate the now commonplace view from an airplane window The view from above was also a means of revealing the inadequacies of urban modernisation and showing where the collective utopia had gone wrong from high density city centres to row upon row of identical housing Ed Ruscha Wen Out for Cigrets 1985 Oil and enamelon canvas 162 6 x162 6 cm Collection Sylvio Perlstein Anvers Belgique Ed Ruscha SUPERVISION Building on advances in space technology surveillance is now the main application for aerial imagery Modern military operations rely heavily on an automated deindividualised power illustrated by the recurrent
37. on Alfred Pacquement Director of National Museum of Modern Art Centre Pompidou Lorraine Region Representatives Nathalie Colin Oesterle Regional Councillor Josiane Madelaine Vice President Jean Pierre Moinaux Vice President Rachel Thomas Vice President Roger Tirlicien Regional Councillor State Representatives Nacer Meddah Prefect of Lorraine Region Defence and Security Area of Eastern France Zone de D fense et de Securite Est and Moselle City of Metz Representatives Dominique Gros Mayor of Metz home city of the Centre Pompidou Metz Thierry Jean Deputy Mayor Qualified Contributors Fr d ric Lemoine Chief Executive Officer of Wendel Patrick Weiten President of Moselle Department Council Staff Representatives Philippe Hubert Technical Director Benjamin Milazzo Manager of Audience Engagement and Loyalty VIEWS FROM ABOVE CENTRE POMPIDOU METZ Management Laurent Le Bon Director Claire Garnier Personal Assistant and Project Coordinator General Secretariat Emmanuel Martinez Secretary General Pascal Keller Assistant Secretary General Julie B ret Administrative Coordinator H l ne de Bisschop Legal Advisor Emilie Engler Secretarial Assistant Department of Administration and Finance Jean Eudes Bour Head of Department Accountant Jeremy Fleur Accounts Assistant Mathieu Grenouillet Accounts Assistant Audrey Jeanront Human Resources Management Assistant
38. on stage she revisits her gestures and intonations by memory allowing spectators for just a performance to travel along the life of a 62 year old woman Financed by Hauptstadtkulturfonds Co produced by Berlin Documentary Forum 2 Berlin far festival des arts vivants Nyon Next Festival Valenciennes Supported by Le Kwatt In collaboration with the Passages festival STUDIO PRI 19 05 13 3 P M AND 5 P M OPUS CORPUS CHLO MOGLIA PERFORMANCE Her body fully arched on a trapeze artist Chlo Moglia slowly breaks down each of her movements Combining total starkness and a disturbing closeness with the spectator she displays each effort produced by her suspended body The slightest breath or shiver becomes perceptible This intimate solo immerses the audience into the heart of the movement leading the viewer to share the same space and reality as the artist a fascinating struggle with the void STUDIO SUN 19 05 13 cou RENCONTRE CHANGE AVEC MEETING EXCHANGE WITH CHLO MOGLIA AND KITSOU DUBOIS Chloe Moglia and Kitsou Dubois have worked together on movement n weightlessness particularly during Kitsou Dubois experiments with parabolic flights in which Chlo Moglia took part Through this meeting with the audience the two artists share their unusual experience and own interpretation of choreographic movement WENDEL AUDITORIUM SUN 1 9 05 1 3 10 30 A M AND 11 45 A M LA JUSTE DISTANCE REGAR
39. orest Information Institut national de l information g ographique et foresti re IGN VIEWS FR0M ABOVE VISUALS AVAILABLE F R PRESS Visuals of works in the exhibition can be downloaded at the following address centrepompidou metz fr phototheque User name presse Password Pomp1d57 VIEWS FR0M ABOVE American photographer and journalist Margaret Robert Delaunay Eiffel Tower and Gardens Mishka Henner Nato Storage Annex Coevorden Bourke White 1904 1971 perches on an eagle Champ de Mars 1922 Drenthe 2011 head gargoyle at the top of the Chrysler Building and focuses a camera New York 1935 Oil on canvas 178 1 x 170 4 cm Archival gicl e prints 80 x 90 cm Smithsonian Institution Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Centre Pompidou Mus e national d art moderne 60 G scar Graubner Time Life Pictures Getty Images Garden Washigtan D C ananas The Joseph H Hirshhorn Bequest 1981 Photo Lee Stalsworth Georges Braque Les Usines du Rio Tinto Richard Diebenkorn Urbana 4 1953 Paul Klee Sizilien 1924 a l Estaque 1910 Oil on canvas Watercolour on paper pasted on cardboard 29 x 22 5 cm Oilon canvas 65x 54cm Colorado Springs Fine Art Center Colorado Springs Etats Unis Centre Pompidou Mus e national d art moderne Centre Pompidou Mus e national d art moderne Don de Julianne Kemper Centre Pompidou MNAM CCI Dist RMN Grand Palais Philippe ADAGP Paris 2013
40. s Innovative scenography takes visitors through time as well as space little by little the view from above rises from balcony level to a satellite Head Curator Angela Lampe Curator National Museum of Modern Art Centre Pompidou Associate Curator Alexandra M ller Research and Exhibition Manager Centre Pompidou Metz Associate Curator for contemporary art Alexandre Quoi Research and Exhibition Manager Centre Pompidou Metz Associate Curator for Film Teresa Castro Senior Lecturer Universit Paris III Associate Curator for Photography Thierry Gervais Assistant Professor Ryerson University Toronto Associate Curator for Architecture Aur lien Lemonier Curator National Museum of Modern Art Centre Pompidou VIEWS FR0M ABOVE 2 SIRUCTURE OF THE EXHIBITION The exhibition in two parts begins in the Grande Nef of 6 ALERIE LAYO UT Centre Pompidou Metz with works spanning the period 1850 to 1945 It then rises to Galerie 1 with works produced since 1945 In the historic sections contemporary works are included to create a counterpoint with older works GRANDE NEF LAYOUT SUPERVISION u EXTENSION y F ALIENATION DOMINATION 2 RIAD SN U Ss ENTRANCE EXIT URBANISATION UPHEAVAL PA ENTRANCE GREAT TOPOGRAPHY VIEWS FR0M ABOVE GRANDE NEF The first photographs taken from a hot air balloon by Nadar in 1858 1868 in Paris and by James W
41. s published under the title Le Photoreportage d auteur l institution culturelle de la photographie en France depuis les ann es 1970 CNRS 2006 She also curated the Berenice Abbott exhibition Jeu de Paume and Art Gallery of Ontario 2012 Alexandra M ller is a research manager at the Centre Pompidou Metz She has also worked as a studies and cultural productions manager at the Centre Pompidou contemporary art department Paris as a rapporteur at the Regional Directorate of Cultural Affairs DRAC le de France and as a charg e de mission at the Paris Cultural Affairs Directorate DAC Maison de Victor Hugo Philippe Peltier an ethnologist and art historian is the head curator of the Oceania Insulindia Unit at the Mus e du quai Branly in Paris Alexandre Quoi a Doctor in contemporary art history has lectured at Paris Sorbonne Limoges and Paris Panth on Sorbonne universities Currently a research manager at the Centre Pompidou Metz where he co curated the Masterpieces exhibition 2010 he also designed the Maxime Chanson L art mode d emploi exhibition Palais de Tokyo 2012 and has written numerous articles and essays Pascal Rousseau is a professor of art history at the Universit Paris Panth on Sorbonne and lectures at the University of Geneva He has curated various exhibitions including Robert Delaunay Centre Pompidou 1999 Aux origines de l abstraction Mus e d Orsay
42. tant professor at the Ryerson University in Toronto where he teaches history of photography and head of research at the Ryerson Image Centre Editor in chief of the tudes photographiques journal he co curated the exhibitions L v nement les images comme acteurs de l histoire Jeu de Paume 2007 and L on Gimpel Les audaces d un photographe Mus e d Orsay 2008 Hans Georg Hiller von Gaertringen an art historian is the author of various publications including L CEil du Ille Reich Walter Frentz le photographe de Hitler Perrin 2008 Junkers Dessau Fotografie und Werbegrafig 1892 1933 Steidl 2010 and Schn rkellos die Umgestaltung von Bauten des Historismus im Berlin des 20 Jahrhunderts Mann Verlag 2012 Laure Jaumouill is an art historian She has contributed to various exhibitions at the Centre Pompidou Metz including Masterpieces Wander Labyrinthine variations and Views from above Since October 2012 she has been a member of the experimental programme in art and politics founded by Bruno Latour at the Paris Institute of Political Studies Sciences Julie Jones is a Doctor in contemporary art history Executive secretary of the French Photographic Society since 2008 she currently works as a research manager at the Centre Pompidou Cabinet de la photographie She has lectured at the National School of Decorative arts the National Heritage Institute the Paris College of Art and the Un
43. the aerial view were first and foremost cinematographic In film the sensation of flight is just as important as the pleasure of seeing and discovering the Earth from an unusual and dominant point of view Teresa Castro illustrates this through examples of films taken from very different eras and genres WENDEL AUDITORIUM WIE 02 1 0 13 7 30 P M THE FABRIC OF THE LAND SEEN FROM THE SKY GILLES A TIBERGHIEN LECTURE In Discovering the Vernacular Landscape John Brinckerhoff Jackson wrote about irrigated landscapes seen from above We fell into the lazy habit of comparing these landscapes to some familiar pattern to a tapestry or a floor covering or to the work of some painter Mondrian or Fernand L ger or Diebenkorn But flying over that other kind of High Plains irrigated landscape proves to be a different experience It is so huge and yet so simple in composition that we can study it as we look down perceive it in other than painterly terms We no longer see the surface as concealing what is beneath it but as explaining it Gilles A Tiberghien addresses this paradoxical statement WENDEL AUDITORIUM VIEWS FR0M ABOVE CREDITS VIEWS FROM ABOVE IS A CENTRE POMPIDOU METZ PRODUCTION AUSSTELLUNG Head Curator Angela Lampe Curator National Museum of Modern Art Centre Pompidou Associate Curator Alexandra M ller Research and Exhibition Manager Centre Pompidou Metz Associate Curator for contemporary
44. which was presented from May to September 2011 in Galerie 3 In cho d chos From Above work in situ 2011 the mirror highlights and magnifies the architecture imagined by Shigeru Ban and Jean de Gastines mi sz Ki T a A SS ti gt Echo d chos From Above work in situ 2011 detail Daniel Buren A ABBOTT Berenice ABDESSEMED Adel ALBERS Joseph ALMENDRA Wilfrid ArT errOriste ARTHUS BERTRAND Yann ATKINSON Lawrence B BAY Didier BAYER Herbert BAYRLE Thomas BEL GEDDES Norman BERKELEY Busby BLACK James Wallace BOULADE Antonin and Leo BOURKE WHITE Margaret BRAQUE Georges BRIDGES Marilyn B CHEL Christoph BUCKMINSTER FULLER Richard BURKHARD Balthasar C CAILLEBOTTE Gustave CARLINE Richard CHASHNIK Ilya CLOSKY Claude COBURN Alvin Langdon COGNEE Philippe CRALI Tullio D DALLAPORTA Raphael DAUMIER Honore DE PALMA Brian DEBORD Guy Ernest DELAUNAY Robert DEUTSCH David DEVAMBEZ Andr DESVIGNE Michel DIEBENKORN Richard DOESBURG Theo van DURER Albrecht E EAMES Charles and Ray EESTEREN Cornelis van ESTEVE Maurice VIEWS FROM ABOVE LIST OF EXHIBITED ARTI F FAROCKI Harun FEININGER Andreas FERRARI Leon FRANCIS Sam FRANCOIS Michel FREEDLAND Thornton FRIEDMAN Yona FRIZE Bernard G GEFELLER Andreas GEHR Ernie GERSTER Georg GIACOMELLI Mario GIMPEL Leon GOLDBLATT David GORIN Jean GOWIN Emmet GRANDVILLE Jean lgnace Isidore GERARD known as GRAU
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