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The gallery will house works shipped from Paris including
paintings and sculptures by Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, German
surrealist Max Ernst and Irish-born painter Francis Bacon, as
part of a "pop-up" museum that will last at least five years.
"(It) gives a fresh impetus to one of our original callings:
providing access to the art of our time to as many people as
possible," Alain Seban, the French center's president, said of
the project, which should later be replicated elsewhere.
'The Cube' center in Malaga's Mediterranean harbor will also
host works by the city's most famous son, Pablo Picasso, in a
two-and-a-half year display from the Pompidou collection.
Rotating temporary exhibits will be held in the museum, whose
underground galleries and protruding glass cube are a far cry
from the Pompidou's famed central Paris venue, where
multi-colored plumbing pipes, air conditioning ducts and
escalators adorn its exterior.
Malaga, one of the gateways to the Costa del Sol whose beaches
draw millions of tourists every year, has been reinventing
itself as a cultural hub, with dozens of museums and an annual
film festival.
The city will pay 1 million euros a year to use the Pompidou
name and borrow the art works.
On March 25 a collection of works from the Russian Museum in St.
Petersburg also opened in Malaga. A hundred pieces from the 15th
to the 20th centuries, from medieval gilded icons to works by
famous Russian artists like Wassily Kandinsky and Marc Chagall,
will be housed in a renovated former tobacco factory from the
1920s.
(Reporting By Jon Nazca, Writing by Sonya Dowsett,; Editing by
Sarah White and Stephen Powell)
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