In Corsica, a group of young people came up with a biennial. And this year it is collaborating with the Pompidou

by Redazione , published on 01/08/2023
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A group of young Corsicans got together, founded the De Renava association with the idea of making Corsica a new center for contemporary art, and last year they came up with an art biennial inviting big names. This year instead they are putting on an exhibition with the Pompidou in Paris.

A piece of Centre Pompidou in Corsica. On the beautiful Mediterranean island, the De Renava association, a group of young Corsicans eager to make their land a new center for contemporary production, have planned to achieve this goal by collaborating with prominent artists and institutions and redeveloping heritage sites. And to do so with an international art biennial interspersed with an “off” year, with events organized with important names in world art.

The first edition of the biennial, held in 2022, had brought together works by Anish Kapoor, Kara Walker, Isaac Julien, Barry McGee and 14 other artists. This year, however, it is the Centre Pompidou, for the first time in Corsica, that is exhibiting its collection in the town of Bonifacio, facing the coast of Sardinia, from June 29 to Sept. 29. The exhibition, titled The Night, features 13 works, contemporary and modern, set up inside the former French military barracks Montlaur, a site of more than 5,000 square meters perched on limestone cliffs. It is an unprecedented journey to discover the architectural and artistic heritage in a setting named after Michelangelo Antonioni’s famous film, a walk on the rhythms of a summer night on the Mediterranean.

Michelangelo Antonioni’sLa Notte is a film studded with encounters and offering a hazy, diffracted, dreamlike and non-exhaustive vision of a certain Mediterranean imagery. The itinerary aims to explore representative motifs that extend beyond its geographical space, reflecting a Mediterranean essence with universal brilliance. Present for this first edition of De Renava Off are works by Kenneth Anger, Kader Attia, Mohamed Bourouissa, Zoulikha Bouabdellah, Neïl Beloufa, Leandro Erlich, Jean Genet, Mona Hatoum, Ange Leccia, Marwan Rechmaoui, Pipilotti Rist, Cerith Wyn Evans and Luc Zangrie.

The project kicked off June 29 and will run through Sept. 29. Open daily, except Saturdays, from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tickets: full 7 euros, reduced (under 16 and art students) 5 euros, free for residents of southern Corsica, under 11, association members.

Image: Mohamed Bourouissa, Shadows, detail (2017; Paris, Centre Pompidou, Paris, Musée national d’art moderne - Centre de création industrielle) © Adagp Paris © Centre Pompidou, Mnam/Cci / Audrey Laurans / Dist. RMN-GP

In Corsica, a group of young people came up with a biennial. And this year it is collaborating with the Pompidou
In Corsica, a group of young people came up with a biennial. And this year it is collaborating with the Pompidou


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