Welcome to an exhibition that has nothing standard about it

In the summer of 2012 the Grimaldi Forum Monaco will be renewing its link with contemporary art. After having celebrated the icon Andy Warhol in 2003, brought together Jean Pigozzi’s African collection in 2005 and extolled New York’s artistic creation in 2006, the Grimaldi Forum Monaco has invited the Pompidou Center to exhibit a selection of its “large format” collection from July 13 to September 9.

The exhibition “Extra Large” is conceived as a voyage through the modern and contemporary collections of the Pompidou Center, focusing on fifty of its most monumental works, some of which are recent acquisitions or have never yet been exhibited in Europe. Goal: to lead the visitor into a head-swimming empathy with the work and enable him or her to discover the great names of 20th century art.

This spectacular journey, sometimes “dizzying”, punctuated by the great names of 20th and 21st century art, sheds a light on the concept of monumentality. It presents the very large format works of Joan Miró, Jean Dubuffet, Matta, Pierre Soulages, Frank Stella, Sam Francis, amd Yan Pei-Ming, but also presents sculptures, installations and environments by Joseph Beuys, Christian Boltanski, Daniel Buren and including Sol LeWitt, Anish Kapoor and Bill Viola: masterpieces of modern and contemporary creation brought together in a deliberately “non-standard” presentation.

This project is the result of close cooperation between the Pompidou Center and the Grimaldi Forum Monaco and is the dreamed of occasion for the Grimaldi Forum Monaco to show to best advantage its Espace Ravel jewel box and its 4000 square meters. And to cap it all, the evocation of this monumental approach to art is taking place in a country labeled as “the second smallest country in the world!” And this is far from being the last of the surprises for the public.

General Curator: Alfred PACQUEMENT

Curator: Ariane COULONDRE

Scenographer: Jasmin OEZCEBI

Dates:from July 13 to September 9, 2012

Hours:Open every day from 10 am to 8 pm. Thursday evenings until 10 pm.

Entrance fee: Full price12 €. Reduced price: Groups (+ 10 people) = 8 €. Students (-25 years on presentation of card) = 8 €.  FREE for those under age eighteen.

Ticket office Grimaldi Forum, Telephone: +377 99 99 3000, Fax: +377 99 99 3001

E-mail: ticket@grimaldiforum.mc and at FNAC stores

Catalogue of the exhibition(Publication date July 2012)

Bilingual version (French/English)

Format 28, 7 cm x 23, 5 cm

96 pages

Sewn

25 four-color printing full pages

Complete illustrated list of the whole of the exhibited works with technical captions

Two essays written by Ariane Coulondre, curator of the exhibition: “big is beautiful”and “the necessary overflowing of all limits”.

5 artist interviews with Xavier Veilhan, Giuseppe Penone, Franck Scurti, Alain Séchas and Yan Pei-Ming.

25 notes on works written by Emmanuelle Ollier, PhD in Art History 

Co-edition: Editions du Centre Pompidou / Grimaldi Forum Monaco

Retail price: 25 € tax included

The artists Yan Pei-Ming, Franck Scurti, Alain Sechas and Claude Viallat are expected in July at the Grimaldi Forum Monaco

ENJOY THESE EXCLUSIVE ENCOUNTERS IN A « EXTRA LARGE » FORMAT

The major summer exhibition « EXTRA LARGE » presents in Monaco some fifty monumental works from the Centre Pompidou‘s Collection (July 13th-September 9th, 2012). The Grimaldi Forum offers its visitors during the month of July some EXCLUSIVE ENCOUNTERS with four artists participating in the exhibition and willing to share with the public the creative process of their works. Finally a director of cultural institution will evoke the work of an artist.

You can already note in your diary the privileged meetings arranged by the artists:

YAN PEI-MING-July 13 at 2:30pm

FRANCK SCURTI- July 14 at 2:30pm

ALAIN SECHAS- July 15 at 2:30pm

CLAUDE VIALLAT -July 21 at 2:30pm

MAURICE FRECHURET - july 28 at 2:30pm - Patrimony curator - Director of the Alpes Maritime 20th century National Museums administration will speak about the PENONE'S work.

These encounters are included in the entrancefee (12€ full price, 8€ for students, seniors and groups, freeunder 18)