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2021-05-20T23:12:49.645Z


CHRONICLE - Installed in the rotunda of the former grain market, the new museum of approximately 7,000 m2 of exhibition space promises discovery and modernity.


A stone's throw from the Louvre, the Pinault Collection fits naturally into the Parisian artistic landscape of the capital. Like a breath of air necessary to smell the art of the present time. In this rapidly changing 1st arrondissement, with its major construction sites: the Forum des Halles and its canopy (variously appreciated), the Louvre Post Office, whose fresh facade promises the best, the Samaritaine, a little further on the Seine side, which also heralds its rebirth. Without forgetting the plan to transform the Louvre des antiquaires, at the Palais-Royal, which should host the Fondation Cartier in the coming years. In this bubbling context, the Pinault Collection takes a very special place, under the leadership of its Director General, the former Minister of Culture Jean-Jacques Aillagon,and Martin Bethenod, the art lover and cantor of Palazzo Grassi, back from Venice, as Deputy Managing Director.

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Installed in the rotunda of the former grain hall, the new museum of approximately 7,000 m2 of exhibition space (offering modules from 100 m2 to 600 m2) promises discovery and modernity. That of a radical and minimal architect, Tadao Ando, ​​and that of a rich collection of contemporary art, as demanding as it is sophisticated. On the occasion of the open days, on May 22, 23 and 24, Parisians will discover on the new walls of the Bourse de Commerce an inaugural exhibition featuring monumental pieces, sublimated by the natural light filtered by the glass roof of the the rotunda. Educational workshops, meetings, readings, screenings or even concerts planned in a 284-seat auditorium ... the program for the coming weeks promises to be extensive. Just like the menu of Michel and Sébastien Bras' restaurant,the Halle aux grains, designed by the Bouroullecs. A global project, like a place to live, as exciting as it is promising, to get the summer off to a good start. Finally!

Source: lefigaro

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