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artists & participants
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Pierre Abadie,
Pol Abraham,
Pierre Albert-Birot,
Lou Albert-Lasard,
Fernand Allard-L´olivier,
C. Altam,
Guillaume Apollinaire,
Alexander Archipenko,
Guy Arnoux,
Hans Arp,
Charles Atamian,
Ivan Axionov,
Gaston Balande,
Iras Roberto Baldessari,
Roberto Baldessari,
Giacomo Balla,
Adrien Barrere,
Alfred Bastien,
W. Battermann,
Charles Baudelaire,
Rudolf Bauer,
Max Beckmann,
Demian Bedny,
Vanessa Bell,
Mary Benner,
Lucien Bernhardt,
Thomas Bert,
F. Besniers Pinx,
Pierre Blanc,
Maria Blanchard,
Max Blondat,
Gus Bofa,
Muirhead Bone,
Pierre Bonnard,
Alexei Boris Kustodijew,
Joseph-Felix Bouchor,
Emile-Antoine Bourdelle,
David Bourliouk,
Bernard Boutet de Monvel,
Constantin Brancusi,
Andre Breton,
L.g. Brodaty,
Romaine Brooks,
Antonio Bruno,
Alfred Bryan,
Gabrielle Buffet,
Charles Burchfield,
Cami,
Henri Camus,
Maurice Canneel,
Capiello,
Georges Capon,
Paul Castelnau,
Blaise Cendrars,
Cerrina,
Marc Chagall,
Charlie Chaplin,
Louis Charlot,
Pierre Choumoff,
Howard Christy,
Paul Claudel,
Gilbert Clavel,
Cless,
Jean Cocteau,
Haskell Coffin,
Paul-Emile Colin,
Collomb,
Richard Cooper,
Jean-Georges Cornelius,
de Coster,
Henri Craste,
Henri Dangon,
Stuart Davis,
Karel de Bondt,
Giorgio De Chirico,
Anne-Pierre de Kat,
Charles de Tholey,
Henry de Waroquier,
Felix Del Marle,
Delapre,
Sonia Delaunay,
Maurice Denis,
Fortunato Depero,
Emil Der Jüngere Döpler,
Paul Dermee,
Victor-Lucien Descaves,
Albert Dethomas,
Alfred Devred / Leo Devred,
Otto Dix,
Theo van Doesburg,
Charles Dominique Fouqueray,
Georges Dorival,
G. Douanne,
Marcel Duchamp,
Raymond Duchamp-Villon,
Andre Ducuing,
Leonardo Dudreville,
Raoul Dufy,
Georges Duhamel,
Robert Dumont-Duparc,
Albin Egger-Lienz,
Jacob Epstein,
Fritz Erler,
Max Ernst,
Pierre Falke,
Henri Farre,
Leon Fauret,
Serge Ferat,
Louis Feuillade,
Jean-Louis Forain,
Tsugouharu Foujita,
Andre Fraye,
Raphael Freida,
Otto Freundlich,
Andre Galland,
Jean Galtier-Boissiere,
Abel Gance,
Tony Garnier,
Pierre Gatier,
Henri Gaudier,
Julio Gaudier-Brzeska,
Charles Georges Dufresne,
Mark Gertler,
Augusto Giacometti,
Pietro Gigli,
Eric Gill,
Charles Giquet de Preissac,
Albert Gleizes,
Julio González,
Sem Goursat,
Oskar Graff,
Juan Gris,
Marcel Gromaire,
George Grosz,
Paul Guillaume,
Olaf Gulbransson,
Jacques Hablützel,
Margaret Hall,
Marsden Hartley,
Childe Hassam,
Raoul Hausmann,
Erich Heckel,
Auguste-Claude Heiligenstein,
Fritz Helmut Ehmcke,
Keith Henderson,
Eric Henri Kennington,
Jacques Henri Lartigue,
Major Henry Norman,
Auguste Herbin,
M. Heringfeld,
Hermann-Paul,
George Herriman,
Alfred-Jules Herve-Mathe,
Ferdinand Hodler,
Gaston Hoffmann,
Gustav Holst,
Karl Horn,
Charles Houben,
Jean Hugo,
Vicente Huidobro,
Vilmos Huszar,
Paul Iribe,
Johannes Itten,
Max Jacob,
Marcel Janco,
Marcel Jeanjean,
Lucien Jonas,
Gino Joseph Schweisthal,
Pierre-Jean Jouve,
Paul Jouve,
Ary Justman,
Wassili Kamenski,
Wassily Kandinsky,
Karl Karlovitch Bulla,
Andre Kertesz,
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner,
Paul Klee,
Ivan Kliun,
Junichi Kochi,
Magda Koll,
Käthe Kollwitz,
N. Kotov,
Krutschonych,
J. L. Grosse,
Jean-Emile Laboureur,
Lachman,
Paul Landowski,
Maurice Langaskens,
Henri Lanos,
Charles Lansiaux,
Mikhail Larionov,
Henri Laurens,
Karel Lauwers,
John Lavery,
Le Corbusier,
Jean-Louis Lefort,
Fernand Leger,
Otto Lehmann,
Wilhelm Lehmbruck,
Lehmeyer,
Aristarch Lentulow,
Georges Leon Bruyer,
Andre Lhote,
Jacques Lipchitz,
Morton Livingston Schamberg,
Robert Lotiron,
Maximilien Luce,
Stanton Macdonald-Wright,
Pierre Macorlan,
Paul Madeline,
Alberto Magnelli,
Gaspard Maillol,
Kasimir Malewitsch,
Robert Mallet-Stevens,
Paul Mansard,
Henri Manuel,
Andre Mare,
Joseph Maria Junoy,
Albert Marquet,
Charles Martin,
Frans Masereel,
Henri Matisse,
Janos Mattis Teutsch,
Karl Max,
James Mcbey,
Mathurin Meheut,
Ludwig Meidner,
Willi Menz,
Jean Metzinger,
V. Metzsch,
Marc-Henri Meunier,
Henri Meunier,
Meurisse,
Joan Miro,
Amedeo Modigliani,
Johannes Mohlzan,
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy,
Claude Monet,
Henri Montassier,
James Montgomery Flagg,
Pietro Morando,
Paul Morchain,
Georg Muche,
Felix Muller,
Reinhold Nägele,
Paul Nash,
John Nash,
Oskar Nerlinger,
Maurice Neumont,
Christopher Nevinson,
Jais Nielsen,
Emil Nolde,
John Norton,
Eugene Oge,
Ferdinand Olivier,
William Orpen,
Louis Orr,
Sujan Pal,
Jules Pascin,
Max Pechstein,
Auguste Perret,
Antoine Pevsner,
Francis Picabia,
Pablo Picasso,
Joseph-Porphyre Pinchon,
Ljubow Popowa,
Francisque Poulbot,
Francis Poulenc,
Marcel Proust,
Victor Prouve,
Greta Prozor,
Paul Queste,
Charlotte Quillet Saint Ange,
Benjamin Rabier,
Pierre Ratouis,
Man Ray,
Auguste Renoir,
Hans Richter,
Albert Robidas,
Auguste Rodin,
Alexander Rodtschenko,
Maurice Rolland,
Georges Rouault,
Olga Rozanova,
Ludwig Rubiner,
Arthur S. Mole,
Sadag,
Harold Sandys Williamson,
Erik Satie,
Saunier,
Egon Schiele,
Oskar Schlemmer,
Jules Schmalzigaug,
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff,
Leo Schnug,
Georges Scott,
Kirill Sdanewitsch,
Ilja Sdanewitsch,
Emilio Settimelli,
Gino Severini,
Charles Sheeler,
John Singer Sargent,
Philippe Soupault,
Spritz,
Franz Stassen,
Iacob Steinberg,
Theophile-Alexandre Steinlen,
Henri-Louis Stephany,
Alfred Stieglitz,
Paul Strand,
Fritz Stuckenberg,
Leopold Survage,
Tancrede Synave,
F. T. Marinetti,
Sophie Taeuber-Arp,
Thalamac,
Emma Thiollier,
James Thiriar,
John D. Thomas,
Henry Tonks,
Jean-Baptiste Tournassoud,
Abel Truchet,
Tristan Tzara,
Henry Valensi,
Paul Valery,
Felix Vallotton,
Bart van der Leck,
Kees van Dongen,
Achille van Sassenbrouck,
Georges Vantongerloo,
Andre Ventre,
Alexandre Vesnine,
Jacques Villon,
Ambroise Vollard,
Ernst Vollbehr,
Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven,
Alexej von Jawlensky,
Edouard Vuillard,
William Wauer,
Gerda Wegener,
Clarence H. White,
Orrin Wightman,
August William Hutaf,
Beatrice Wood,
A.w. Wurthmann,
Georges Yakoulov,
Ossip Zadkine,
Al. Zelenski,
Jules-Emile Zingg,
Henri-Achille Zo
curators
press release
Centre Pompidou-Metz presents 1917, a multidisciplinary exhibition that investigates the fundamental question of artistic creation in wartime. Originating with Picasso's creation of his largest work, the stage curtain for the ballet Parade, in 1917, the exhibition examines artistic production of that crucial year in light of historical facts and their impacts on the lives of the artists.
1917 offers an instant view of every field of creativity during this year of the First World War. It asks what such a narrow, precise context as a single year might mean for creative activity, while avoiding the pitfalls of expectations and assumptions as to the nature of wartime art. By focusing on one year in the 20th century, 1917 also explores a rarely attempted, original exhibition format.
1917 testifies to the extreme diversity of its artistic production. Presented on over 2300 square meters and in two sections, the exhibition conveys this diversity by mapping the various positions of the artists relative to the battlefront, and subsequently their degree of physical, psychological, symbolical or intellectual involvement in the issues of war.
Alongside masters such as Brancusi, Dix, Duchamp, Kandinsky, Matisse, Monet, or Nevinson, were amateur artists who felt the need to respond to the trials of war through creative expression such as Trench art, examples of which are a high point of the exhibition. Equally important are the war artists who were sent to the front to record its events, and the many individuals who, as eyewitnesses, expressed their memory of the conflict for posterity.
From physical and psychological destruction and rebuilding through self-portraiture, to the confusion between gender, and the transformation associated with camouflage, two major figures arise: the Harlequin and the stage curtain for the ballet Parade, whose monumental format and remarkable presentation constitute the climax of the exhibition. This masterpiece by Picasso was last shown in 2004 in Hong Kong and is shown in France for the first time in over twenty years.
The exhibition gathers works from public, private, art, and military collections, both French and international. Foremost among these are the many works drawn from the collection of the Centre Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne. 1917 also benefits from partnerships with the Bibliothèque de Documentation Internationale Contemporaine (Nanterre), the Établissement de communication et de production audiovisuelle de la défense (Ivry-sur-Seine), the musée de l'Armée (Paris), the musée du Service de Santé des Armées (Paris), the Historial de la Grande Guerre (Péronne) and the Imperial War Museums (London).
1917 is endorsed by the Ministry of Defence and Ex-Servicemen. The exhibition is the first in a series of cultural events about the Great War leading up to international commemorations of the centennial of the First World War.
A 600 page catalogue will be published to coincide with the opening of the exhibition, followed by a symposium in September 2012.
A programme of films, lectures and performances will run alongside the exhibition, such as a cine-concert by Jeff Mills scheduled for 26 May 2012.
Curators Claire Garnier, Curator, Centre Pompidou-Metz Laurent Le Bon, Curator, Director, Centre Pompidou-Metz