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KAWAMATA

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KAWAMATACARTON WORKSHOP10 APRIL- 23 AUGUST 2010

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SOMMAIRE

1. PRESS RELEASE PAGE 3

2. BIOGRAPHY PAGE 5

3. EXHIBITION ITINERARY AND MAP PAGE 6

4. ROUTE OF THE EXHIBITION PAGE 8

5. PUBLICATION PAGE 9

6. PRESS VISUALS PAGE 10

7. PARTNERS PAGE 12

8. PRACTICAL INFORMATION PAGE 13

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KAWAMATA

CARTON WORKSHOP10 APRIL- 23 AUGUST 2010GALERIE DES ENFANTS / FORUM / MEZZANINE

Direction de la communication

75191 Paris cedex 04

director

Franoise Pams

telephone

00 33 (0)1 44 78 49 08

press attachCline Janvier

telephone

00 33 (0)1 44 78 49 87

fax

00 33 (0)1 44 78 13 40

e-mail

[email protected]

www.centrepompidou.fr

curator

Nadine Combet

Head of young public projects

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Direction de la communication

75191 Paris cedex 04

director

Franoise Pams

telephone

00 33 (0)1 44 78 49 08

press attachCline Janvier

telephone

00 33 (0)1 44 78 49 87

fax

00 33 (0)1 44 78 13 40

e-mail

[email protected]

www.centrepompidou.fr

curator

Nadine Combet


PRESS RELEASEKAWAMATA CARTON WORKSHOP10 APRIL - 23 AUGUST 2010GALERIE DES ENFANTS / FORUM / MEZZANINE

From 10 April until August 23 2010, Tadashi Kawamata is undertakingan exceptional intervention at the Centre Pompidou and in the Galerie

des enfants.

Through the acts of sculptor and architect that characterise his approach,

the Japanese artist intervenes in environments and buildings utilising basic

materials such as cardboard and yard lumber, which become elements

of an immense assemblage.

Based on his analysis of the architecture of the Centre Pompidou and the way

it fits into the surrounding urban fabric, the artist has imagined a spacecovered in cardboard for the Galerie des enfants. Like most of his projects,

it is a work in progress. The project, begun by the students and teams

of the Centre Pompidou, will be completed by visiting parents and children

following the rules the artist has conceived for the game. Kawamata proposes

the unifying thread of nature and the city to frame the activities space

in the Galerie des enfants in six consecutive chapters: from the mountain

to the Tower of Babal, by way of the landscape of the maze. The exhibition/

workshop in the Galerie des enfants also proposes six cabinet projects

designed by the artist, each of which houses the documents that describe

his previous creations. Inside these cabinets, among other objects and

documents, one can view the documentary films made by Gilles Coudert,

4 march 2010

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who has been filming the artists work for many years.

For the first time, Tadashi Kawamata is also intervening on the faade and in the Forum

of the Centre Pompidou. He has nestled his wood huts in the buildings metallic and

technical framework. These little ephemeral constructions invite us to see the building

and its environment in a fresh and amazed way. They offer a new and unusual reading

of the building that encourages us to rediscover the architecture of the Centre Pompidou.

With the support of the Galerie Kamel Mennour

Exhibition mounted in partnership with the OTOR Company

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2. BIOGRAPHY

1953Born on the island of Hokkaido, Japan.

1981Tadashi Kawamata graduates from the Tokyo University of Fine Arts.

1982Participates in the Venice Biennale where he is, at the age of 28, the youngest Japanese candidate.He is already presenting monumental installations linked with the sites he takes possession of.

1987During the Documenta VIII in Kassel, he intervenes on a ruined church dating from World War II,and thereby restores it to the inhabitants.He also participates in International Biennial of So Paulo this same year.

1993Tadashi Kawamata participates in the Biennale dArt Contemporain de Lyon and shows his workat the Meguro Museum of Art in Tokyo.

1996In Barcelona, he creates a footbridge between contemporary art museum and the citys historic centre.

1997He intervenes on the Saint-Louis Chapel of the Salptrire, where he creates a spiralling structure ofchairs and church pews that rises towards the chapels cupola and gives building a totally different look.

1999

He is becomes professor at the University of Fine Arts of Tokyo, until 2005.

2005Tadashi Kawamata is appointed art director of the second Triennial of Yokohama, Japan.

2007During Art Basel, he develops the installation concept for his Tree Huts. The artist designs a small hutin wood coiled round a pylon that stands in front of the highly urbanised spaces of the fair.He creates View Point Terrace, in Paderborn, Germany; Tree huts in Trondheim, Norway and at Lavau-sur-Loire for the Nantes-Saint-Nazaire Estuary.

2008

In Versailles, at the architecture school, he creates an impressive sculpture of trays, Gandamaison,That invades the Marchalerie like a giant unfurling wave.

2010He is currently professor at the cole Nationale Suprieure des Beaux-arts de Paris.Tadashi Kawamata has realised over 300 personal exhibitions round the globe.

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3. EXHIBITION ITINERARY AND MAP

A - ACTIVITIES SPACE

Every month, Tadashi Kawamata recreates a thematic staging with students and children.

Month by month, the changes to the decor of the Galerie des enfants will lead families from a craggymountain landscape in cardboard to a Tower of Babel. Each step will be filmed and projected onto oneof the walls of the exhibition space. Through these workshops, a young public is offered the opportunityto work with the same materials as the sculptor, to further develop his proposals, and thus to questionnotions of nature, architecture, urbanism and society.

in April: the landscapein May: the cityin June: thee villagein July: the mazein August: monument Tower of Babel

B - PROJECT CABINETS

Tadashi Kawamata designed the project cabinets or memory cabinets, each of which houses documentsconcerning a project he has done. These are metallic armoires supporting shelves and including a longtablet resting on a leg that serves as a reading table. Four stools enable the public to sit and view the filmpresented on the video screen and to consult all the documents related to the creation of the project,letters, sketches, plans etc Thus, everyone can get an in-depth understanding of the project containedin each cabinet.

The films presented in Tadashi Kawamatas cabinets project: Transfert (1994), Le passage des chaises (1997), Les chaises de traverse

(1998), Sur la voie, vreux (2000), Mmoire en demeure (2006) and Gandamaison (2008) produced and directed by Gilles Coudert.

a.p.r.e.s production / www.apres-production.com

Gilles Coudert is an author-director and producer of documentary filsm. Since 1994, he has documented fifteen installations by Tadashi

Kawamata, coordinated many pojects and collaborated on various international exhibitions and projects of the artist.

From ditions a.p.r.e.s, ten of his films are gathered on the DVD Works & Process Tadashi Kawamata. A book-DVD traces the Mmoire en demeure

project in Saint-Thlo, Britanny and the book-DVD Workshop evokes the Gandamaison project at the Marchalerie Art Centre in Versailles

and provides an overview of the many workshops lead by Kawamata.

Tadashi Kawamata, Transfert, a film by Gilles Coudert

duration: 30 a.p.r.e.s production 1994

Tadashi Kawamata, Le passage des chaises, a film by Gilles Coudert


Tadashi Kawamata, Les chaises de traverse, a film by Gilles Coudert


Tadashi Kawamata, Sur la voie, vreux, a film by Gilles Coudert


Tadashi Kawamata, Mmoire en demeure, a film by Gilles Coudert et Damien Faure


Tadashi Kawamata, Gandamaison, a film by Gilles Coudert


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4. ROUTE OF THE EXHIBITION

WORKSHOP IN THE GALERIE DES ENFANTSWednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays, and every day during school holidays (zone C)Sessions at 2 pm, 3:30 pm and 5 pm

Every day during summer holidays (3 July- 23 August)Sessions at 2:30 and 3:30

Every month, Tadashi Kawamata stages a new theme, all in cardboard, in the Galerie des enfants,with the assistance of children and Fine Arts students.

CINMASunday 11 April, 2:30 pm and 4 pm. Petite salleFor children aged 6 and above with their parentsFreeTwo screenings of Japanese animated films chosen and presented by Tadashi Kawamata.

NUIT DES MUSESSaturday 15 May from 8 pm to 11:30 pmTwo guides will accompany families as they undertake a work in progress on the theme of the cityproposed by the artist for the month of May. The cardboard packaging will enable children with theirfamilies to experiment with the possibilities of transforming this material to build urban dwellings.

FIARTSaturday 19 JuneGalerie des enfants/ Forum/ Piazza

Events organised round the cardboard in the Galerie des enfants, the Forum and on the PiazzaIn the presence of the artist

For this 4th edition of the International Festival Art in the family, artists and performers will take possessionof the Centre and propos show, workshops and group performances that offer numerous opportunities forcreative, poetic and playful discovery.

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5. PUBLICATION

Comme latelier de Tadashi Kawamata

forthcoming: April 2010

16 pagesformat 27,5 x 38,5 cmprice: 12 5 colour illustrations,6 huts to be built and placed on the promontories of the Centre PompidouISBN: 978-28465-7book available in the online boutique of the Centre Pompidou

Collection Comme latelier :The Childrens workshop invites creators (visual artists, architects, designers, choreographers andillustrators) to design books based on their approach that can be manipulated, cut out and built. This offersa playful and creative way to become familiar with their universe, through observation and through building

elements based on their vocabulary of colours, forms and words.

Tadashi Kawamata Tree huts

forthcoming: May 2010authors: Martin Friedman, Tadashi Kawamata, Guy Tortosa, Jonathan Watkinspublisher: kamel mennourbilingual French/Englishformat: 21 x 27 cmillustrations colour and black & white

This monograph (bilingual Fr/Eng) brings together the artists various Tree hut projects JapaneseTadashi Kawamata, born in 1953 on the island of Hokkaido.Realised between 2008 and 2010 at Madison Square Park (New York), in Miami, at the Donjon de Vez (Vez),At the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin), at the kamel mennour gallery, in the Tuileries Gardens andat the Centre Pompidou (Paris) - they are put into perspective, through essays and critical texts by MartinFriedman and Jonathan Watkins, with other, earlier interventions by the artist.These contributions, in addition to the interview conducted by Guy Tortosa, offer a broader point of viewon the Tadashi Kawamatas work and enable the reader to have a clearer grasp of his approach.

Direction des ditions

press contact

velyne Poret

telephone

+ 33 (0)1 44 78 15 98e-mail

[email protected]

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6. PRESS VISUALS

1

Tadashi Kawamata

Herv Vronse

Centre Pompidou, 2010

2Model of an outdoor Hut

Herv Vronse


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Cabinets Project

Tadashi Kawamata


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Sketch for the Galerie des enfants

Tadashi Kawamata


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7. PARTNERS

GALERIE KAMEL MENNOUR

1999: the Gallery opens at 60, rue Mazarine - 75006 Paris.November 2007: Opening of the New Space at 47, rue Saint-Andr des Arts - 75006 Paris.

OTOR

Otor is an industial group specialised in manufacturing recycled corrugated board packaging.It has a turnover of 363.8 million euros with a headcount of 1,500 people located on 15 sites in France.The six factories of the Group produce 1.7 billion packages per year, or the equivalent of 750 million mof corrugated board. Integrated upstream and downstream of cardboard production, Otor also possessespaper mills and a specific site for the construction of packaging and processing machines. It deliversto customers all over France and in neighbouring European countries. Beyond these borders, Otor ispresent on every continent via its network of licensed partners, which utilise Otors patented products andtechnological know-how to develop their own markets. A forerunner in many domains and recognisedas a major innovator in its sector, Otor is a dynamic company on the cutting edge of technology.

Through its patronage of the Centre Pompidou, Otor is proud to support the exhibition of Tadashi Kawamatafor his pedagogical contribution to learning designed for the young public.He will find the opportunity to develop his artistic sensitivities for the utilisation of our materials, whichare perfectly aligned with the environmental expectations of younger generations. Entirely recycled andrecyclable, composed of natural fibres from renewable sources, cardboard is without a doubt the materialof the future.

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8. PRACTICAL INFORMATION

Centre Pompidou75191 Paris cedex 04

telephone

00 33 (0)1 44 78 12 33

metro

Htel de Ville, Rambuteau

Wednesdays, Saturdays, and

Sundays and during shool

holidays, 2 guide accompany

children and adults in their

discovery

Hours

daily, except Tuesdays,

from 11 am to 7 pm

Tickets12 euros

Concessions: 10 euros

depending on the period

Free access for those under

the age of 26 and holders of

the Laissez - passer card

Information

01 44 78 49 13

www.centrepompidou.fr/

enfants

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10 MARCH 19 JULY 2010

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14 APRIL 19 JULY 2010

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5 MAY 9 AUGUST 2010

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23 JUNE 13 SEPTEMBER 2010

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CuratorNadine Combet


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