That Heinz Berggruen had a flair for art could have been understood from his first purchase which he made during his honeymoon in Chicago when he bought a watercolor by Paul Klee from a Jewish refugee for just 100 dollars. Berggruen was also in America to escape the Nazi fury. He was just 22 years old and essentially penniless. Over the years, after his return to Europe, his love for art quickly took shape, giving life to an important and eclectic art gallery in Paris and establishing himself over the years as one of the most talented and sophisticated collectors and art dealers in the world. The heart of the exhibition was created to tell his personal story intertwined with that of an extraordinary art collection that brings together masterpieces by most of the most important artists of the twentieth century, with a strong presence of his two favorites Paul Klee and Pablo Picasso - but also sculptures by Giacometti, collages by Matisse, masterpieces by Seurat - of whom he was a tireless supporter from the beginning.
An instrument of sublimation as much as a manifestation of a latent truth, indeterminacy becomes both symptom and remedy for a world in search of meaning. Intrinsically elusive, the aesthetics of blur emerges in empty space. An exhibition.
This exhibition brings together the Jean-Jacques Lebel endowment fund and the Centre Pompidou collection with more than one hundred and twenty works from various sources, in an undisciplined journey through the passions of the twentieth century up to the present day.
An exhibition at the Centre Pompidou dedicated to American photographer Barbara Crane that focuses on the first 25 years of the artist's career, presenting hundreds of her major works, many of which have never been exhibited before in France.
Through more than 160 works, including 96 sculptures, 38 drawings, 3 paintings and 26 photographs, the comparison shows, with unprecedented ambition and scale, the fraternities and reciprocities, as well as the divergences and antagonisms of two creators, of two plastic universes, bearers of the great challenges of modernity.
The City of Lights is a gift waiting to be unwrapped this holiday season. From the charms of Paris to the excellence of Bvlgari, every facet of the experience is a treasure.
