Landscape on Stage: West Bund Museum × Centre Pompidou

A horizon lights up between workshop fumes and water reflections: the landscape is no longer a backdrop, but a restless protagonist of modernity. The result of the collaboration between the West Bund Museum and the Center Pompidou, the exhibition retraces in a thematic key the long path that led the West to grant autonomy to the genre - from the nineteenth-century golden age of Impressionism to the metamorphoses of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, between avant-garde, urbanization and industrialization. The classic view is cracking: nature is hybridized with roads, chimneys, pixels. Seven sections in two galleries intertwine painting, installation, cinema and new media, creating a landscape that changes its gaze with every technological breakthrough. Mountains translated into data, skylines as chromatic scores, campaigns filtered by archives and codes: a plural story in which the environment becomes a mirror and laboratory of our lives. In dialogue, works by Daniel Buren, Joan Mitchell, Robert Delaunay, Peter Doig, Zao Wou-Ki. The result is a contemporary atlas where the distance shortens, the perspective bends and the landscape, finally free, takes on the responsibility of telling the present.