Reinventing Landscape
重塑景观
蓬皮杜中心典藏展(四)
Exhibition
Avril 28, 2025 – October 18, 2026
West Bund Museum Centre Pompidou, Shanghai
Press release
Oil on canvas, 229 x 359 cm – Centre Pompidou Collection, National Museum of Modern Art Industrial Creation Center © Peter Doig.
All Rights Reserved, DACS / Adagp, Paris, 2025 – Photo © Centre Pompidou, MNAMCCI/Audrey Laurans/Dist. GrandPalaisRmn
“Reinventing Landscape,” the fourth semipermanent exhibition at West Bund Museum Centre Pompidou since opening, puts the spolight on landscape art. This was a highly popular theme in the 19th century, particularly for the impressionists, and landscapes in the 20th and 21st centuries underwent some profound mutations. This exhibition bears witness to that history and transformation, designed as a vast journey that draws on Centre Pompidou’s very rich collection of paintings, installations, photography, film, design and new media.
Each of this exhibition’s seven sections is dedicated to various ways of representing the natural and urban environments in which human societies evolve. From 1905 to the present, developments in the depiction of landscapes are envisaged according to stylistic categories, alongside explorations of artists' viewpoints, their treatment of light, and their interventions at the heart of nature. The exhibition itself also strives to recreate landscape like environments.
“Reinventing Landscape” opens with a masterpiece from Centre Pompidou’s contemporary collection, “100 Years Ago” by English painter Peter Doig (2001), a large landscape in which the sole figure seems to questio the viewer about their relationship with nature.
The works on display illustrate the richness of artistic approaches to landscape: cubist geometrization, surrealist mental visions, gestural abstraction or the emotional intensity of expressionism. Some explore the effects of light or adopt unusual perspectives, such as aerial views. Others focus on the modern city or the memory embodied in places. Finally, panoramic formats invite total immersion, concluding the journey with a celebration of nature in perpetual transformation.
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