The “provisional Pompidou Center” opened in Málaga – Terra Peru

The “provisional Pompidou Center” of Málaga, first headquarters of the French overseas museum was opened on Saturday with a view to becoming the prototype of an unpublished museum concept and a cultural shock for the Andalusian city.

Housed in a half-buried building built in 2013, “The Cube”, near the marina of Malaga, the “Pompidou Center” opens its doors for five years. This new cultural enclave of the Andalusian city, whose agglomeration live a million people, was inaugurated on Saturday by the Spanish Prime Minister, Mariano Rajoy, in the presence of the French Minister of Culture, Fleur Pellerin.

In his minimalist white rooms, around a skylight topped by a glass cube, the Centre Pompidou presents a rich selection of their collections: paintings, sculptures but also videos, installations …

“The city of Malaga has for several years a strategy to strengthen its cultural power. We want to be a cultural city first division,” he told AFP the mayor, Francisco de la Torre Prados. “This complements our strategy to Malaga a city of innovation, technology. To retain the talent needed that quality of life is formidable cultural offer is part of this.”

The birthplace of Pablo Picasso, Malaga hosts every year to 4 million tourists and has several important museums, including the Picasso Museum, the Carmen Thyssen dedicated to artists of the nineteenth and Art Center Contemporary and an antenna State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg, opened last Wednesday.

For the president of the Centre Pompidou, Alain Sebban, implantation in Malaga is both a “laboratory” to experience the concept and “showcase” of the center.

“It’s time to be agile because we are in a world that changes very easily and in which public tenders are reduced,” said Seban, whose term ends on April 1, told AFP.

The project seeks to recreate a miniature Pompidou Centre with a selection of 90 works (paintings, sculptures, photographs …) from the Paris collection, which has about 100,000 pieces.

This temporary exhibition will unite with durations of three to six months, events in dance, film or video, and activities for the youngest.

Francis Bacon, Marc Chagall and Magritte share space with, among others, Picasso, Max Ernst, Julio Gonzalez and Brancusi.

The city of Malaga invested 7 million euros to put “The Cube” and pay the Pompidou Centre between 1 and 1.5 million per year for their work on exhibition design and use of his image .

The school budget is 4 million euros, according to a study commissioned by the City, the Pompidou Centre should generate about 20 million of additional revenue for the city, said the mayor.

Experience of Málaga will determine how many centers provisional Pompidou could have both, “certainly, three, maybe four,” Seban said.

“The idea is to phase out the temporary exhibitions outside the headquarters” conceived by the center, which reported 3.5 million per year, “and that usually focus on the same large figures of modern art. ”