MALAGA (Reuters) – The French Centre Pompidou It took Saturday dozens of his works of art of the twentieth century XXI one of the most popular seaside resorts of Spain, opening at the port of the Andalusian city of Malaga the first provisional international headquarters of the center, which could follow other.
The Gallery will house moved from Paris, among which are paintings and sculptures by Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, German surrealist Max Ernst and the Irish painter Francis Bacon, as part of the provisional museum that remain in the city for at least five years work.
“It gives a fresh impetus to one of our most original callings: to give access contemporary art to as many people as possible, “said Alain Sebban, President of the French center on the idea of moving the sample subsequently elsewhere.
The Malaga center headquarters, located in a bucket in the port of Malaga –for what is called “The Cube” – also house works of favorite son of the city Pablo Picasso, in half an exhibition of two years from the Pompidou collection.
It will also carry out the rotation of temporary exhibitions at the museum, whose underground galleries and the protruding glass cube is quite headquarters in Paris, known for its giant pipes away and air conditioning ducts colorful and ornate exterior lifts.
Málaga, one of the gateways to the Costa del Sol, whose beaches attract millions of tourists every year, has been reinventing itself as a cultural center, with dozens of museums and an annual film festival.
The city will pay one million euros per year to use the name of Pompidou and the loan of works of art.
On March 25, opened in Málaga also a collection of artworks from the Russian Museum in St. Petersburg . Hundreds of pieces from the fifteenth to the twentieth centuries, from medieval golden icons to works by famous artists such as Wassily Kandinsky and Marc Chagall will be in a former tobacco-twenties restored.
(Reporting by Jon Nazca, written by Sonya Dowsett. In Tamara Fariñas Rivas in the drafting of Madrid. Edited by Steve Addison)
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