

"It is not unimaginable to extend it," he insinuates with diplomacy. And does not rule out renewing the agreement with Malaga, which was to conclude in 2020. In addition, Lasvignes would like to create "one or two more venues".

The Chinese Pompidou should open in a building to suit you, which is currently built in an old airport of the city. "We look forward to announce it during this first quarter," he said. If the conversations come to fruition, it will also open a subsidiary in Shanghai. "īefore, the Pompidou will open a venue in Brussels in 2018, where it will occupy an old art deco garage of 35,000 square meters. It is a promising country with many resources, where artists' groups have contributed to pacify social life. "It is among our future prospects," said the president of the Pompidou, adding that the project is in a preliminary phase, even if it already has a particular country in the spotlight. After the pilot exercise in the ephemeral headquarters of Malaga, which Lasvignes describes as a "successful experiment", the center last opened other branches abroad. One of the museum's future challenges is to export the Pompidou brand outside the French borders. Pompidou never would have imagined that, 40 years later, his museum would create school and would even have descendants.

It gave off a strange, almost disturbing freedom, which was not only novel, but was opposed to any model known, "he explains. "I found it to be a totally exotic place, out of a movie. The current president of the Pompidou Center, Serge Lasvignes (Toulouse, 1954), still remembers his first visit. "I want to erect a cultural center that brings together both a museum and a place of creation, in which the plastic arts are mixed with music, films and books," he said before he died. It responded to the premonitory dream of the french President Georges Pompidou.
