Francois Pinault in Paris built a museum to house his collection of modern art – the NATION (Argentina)

The businessman part of the 4000 exhibit works of his art collection, considered one of the most important in the world, in the old Stock Exchange, a circular building near the Louvre of the eighteenth century; open in 2018

Pinault, during the presentation in Paris: behind the building to be renovated house his collection.

French businessman Francois Pinault opened in Paris a private museum to display his art collection, today announced the mayor of the French capital, Anne Hidalgo.

“That can finally see their collections in Paris is wonderful news,” Hidalgo said.

the new museum of modern and contemporary art will be based in the historic building of the Stock Exchange Trade of the French capital. It is a round building of the eighteenth century crowned by a dome, located between the Louvre Museum and Forum Les Halles, the commercial and cultural center built on the site of the old market supply of the city.

the building will be leased for 50 years from the Pinault Foundation, announced Hidalgo and Pinault, head of the business group focused on luxury brands such as Gucci, Yves Saint Laurent, Boucheron own. Balenciaga and Alexander McQueen and the sports firm Puma and Fnac chain. Its foundation will fund the necessary to transform the building and assume the operating costs of the new museum works.

The businessman said he wanted to settle in the Parisian cultural fabric “with respect and consideration for who they are and their actors and desiring to contribute to the brightness of Paris in an original way. “

the new arts center will be opened in late 2018. the renovation of the building will be owned by the Japanese architect Tadao Ando, ​​already he turned into museums orders Pinault Palazzo Grassi and Punta della Dogana in Venice.

with over 4,000 works, it is considered that Pinault has one of the world’s largest collections of modern and contemporary art. In 2005 he wanted and create a museum in the former premises of a factory car company Renault on the island Seguin, on the Seine, west of Paris.

Following administrative difficulties, finally he gave up that project and set up his foundation in the Palazzo Grassi in Venice (Italy). He acquired later, also in Venice, the Punta de la Aduana, converted into contemporary art center in 2009, and the Teatrino, opened in 2013.

“There was a long time the idea that France had lost a little collection of François Pinault, “and” I always had in my head “I could go back to Paris, Hidalgo said.

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