Articles of ‘Centre Pompidou’

November 12, 2008 - February 2009
Born in Mexico City in 1967, Damián Ortega is the first Latin American artist  to show in Espace 315. With Abraham Cruzvillegas and Gabriel Kuri, he is one of the leading members of the rising artistic generation in Mexico, first coming to widespread attention at the 50th Venice Biennale in [...]

September 19th, 2008 - January 11th, 2009
The beginning of the 20th century is marked by the impression of faith’s foundation being shaken to the core. Nietzsche’s declaration, “God is dead” (1881/1882) and Max Weber’s assertion of the “disenchantment of the world” (1904) revealed just how much people’s relationship to religion had changed. Yet this did [...]