Prehistory, a modern enigma

Exhibitions: May 8, 2019 - September 16, 2019
From 11h to 21h
Gallery 1 - Center Pompidou, Paris
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Travel in a story of glances and fascination, in the presence of prehistoric, modern and contemporary icons! From the Mammoth de la Madeleine to Dove Allouche and Louise Bourgeois, this original exhibition highlights the link between prehistory and modern and contemporary art.
Over a chronological journey, discover how artists and society have come under the allure of origins during modernity, yielding to a fantasy vision of what was before history. This real time machine has constantly shaped the mental horizons of modernity and provided concrete models for experiments of all kinds.
Exhibition at the Pompidou Center from May 8, 2019 to September 16, 2019
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Commissioner: Mnam / Cci, C. Debray, R. Labrusse, M. Stavrinaki