A branch of the Pompidou in the land of Picasso – lanacion.com (Argentina)

MADRID had to be Picasso. The first thing visitors to the Pompidou Center of Malaga is are two works by the father of Cubism: sculpture Female head and oil The hat with flowers . The hometown of the great Paul presented the new elite level of European contemporary art circuit yesterday. More than 2000 square meters of exhibition glisten beneath a giant multicolored glass cube at the end of an old dock port on the Mediterranean.

For the first time the Centre Pompidou left France and set out in the next five years a sample of his exquisite collection with works by Francis Bacon, Alberto Giacometti, Max Ernst, René Magritte, Frida Kahlo, Marc Chagall, Willem de Kooning, Andy Warhol, Joan Miró and Antoni Tàpies, among 80 other essential artists XX and XXI centuries. “The concept of the first permanent exhibition is organized around the representation of the human body,” said José María Luna, director of the museum.

The itinerary was developed by the deputy head of the Musée National d’Art Moderne France, Brigitte Leal, which also included a section on the building of the Paris Pompidou, the legendary work of Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers, whose industrial architecture scandalized the purists in 1977.

As foreseen will be organized between two and three temporary exhibitions a year. The first is a multidisciplinary exhibition on the body and dance. An appetizer to wait, in May, The hotel Miró , dedicated to the great exponent of surrealism.

As the museum in Paris, be here programming in the areas of film and literature to interact with the public. “We committed to experiment with the tradition of mediation with society that arises from always the Pompidou” said Moon.

The museum will be open at least until 2020, when due to the agreement signed between the city Malaga and the French center. Then he is at the discretion of the parties to determine if it survives. It is the third seat of the cultural center, after Paris and Metz opened five years ago.

Perhaps the uncertainty about its future, the building lacks the spectacular architecture of the Pompidou. The cube -homenaje 12 meters high, of course, to Picasso’s work Andalusian Javier Pérez de la Fuente and Juan Antonio Malavé. At the last moment was entrusted to quoted French conceptual artist Daniel Buren’s colorful intervention that takes the monotony.

With the opening of the Pompidou Centre and a branch of the Museum of Russian Art -the past- Wednesday Malaga seeks installed as new pole of artistic attraction of Spain. Within a few blocks also raises the Picasso Museum, Picasso’s Birthplace, the Carmen Thyssen Museum and Center for Contemporary Art. .