{"id":944,"date":"2021-06-30T08:03:33","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T00:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/?p=944"},"modified":"2021-06-28T10:09:29","modified_gmt":"2021-06-28T02:09:29","slug":"laurent-le-bon-named-president-of-pariss-centre-pompidou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/artist\/laurent-le-bon-named-president-of-pariss-centre-pompidou\/","title":{"rendered":"Laurent Le Bon Named President of Paris\u2019s Centre Pompidou"},"content":{"rendered":"

Laurent Le Bon<\/a>, the head of Paris\u2019s Mus\u00e9e Picasso, has been named the president of the\u00a0Centre Pompidou<\/a>, the city\u2019s biggest and most important institution focused on modern and contemporary art. He is set to take the reins at the museum on July 19.<\/p>\n

At the Pompidou, Le Bon succeeds Serge Lasvignes, who has been the institution\u2019s president since 2015. Lasvignes is expected to leave his position next week.<\/p>\n

\u201cLaurent Le Bon has a very special relationship with the Centre Pompidou, since he was curator there before leading, with great talent, the Centre Pompidou-Metz,\u201d Lasvignes said in a statement. \u201cHis attachment to the originality of this institution bodes very well for me, and I wish him every success in a period that will be crucial for the future of the Centre Pompidou.\u201d<\/p>\n

Since Lasvignes\u2019s announcement last year that he would retire from Paris institution, many had grown hopeful for a figure who would shake up the museum. But it is unlikely that such a disrupter will be found in Le Bon, who is known in France for his glossy presentations of work by modern and contemporary artists whose fame is already cemented.<\/p>\n

It is also a conservative choice compared to other recent appointments at some of Paris\u2019s top museums. In May, Laurence des Cars became the\u00a0first woman to lead the Louvre<\/a>\u00a0in its 228-year history. And in 2020, Emmanuel Kasarh\u00e9rou, who is Kanak, became the first Indigenous person to lead the Mus\u00e9e du Quai Branly\u2013Jacques Chirac.<\/p>\n

Le Bon\u2019s most famous exhibition is his massive Dada survey, held at the Centre Pompidou in 2005. The show, which later traveled to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, featured more than 400 objects and received universal acclaim.<\/p>\n

In the years that followed, Le Bon got widespread recognition for splashy exhibitions that included solo shows for Jeff Koons and Takashi Murakami, both at the Palace of Versailles, in 2008 and 2010, respectively. The year he organized the Murakami show, he became director of the Centre Pompidou-Metz, a sister museum in northeastern France, and in 2014, he took over at the Mus\u00e9e Picasso, during a particularly chaotic period that saw staff dissent and financial difficulties.<\/p>\n

Over the past few months, many have speculated about who might succeed Lasvignes. In April, the\u00a0Times of London<\/em>\u00a0reported\u00a0that the museum was searching for a female president\u2014a \u201cMadame Pompidou.\u201d Only one woman has ever led the Centre Pompidou since its founding in 1969: H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Ahrweiler, who oversaw the museum from 1989 to 1991. On Friday,\u00a0Le Monde<\/em>\u00a0reported\u00a0that Bourse de Commerce director Martin B\u00e9thenod and Mus\u00e9e de l\u2019Orangerie director C\u00e9cile Debray had been in consideration.<\/p>\n

It is not the first time Le Bon has been considered for one of Paris\u2019s top institutions. He had been up for consideration to succeed Henri Loyrette at the Louvre when the president left in 2010, though Le Bon lost the job to Jean-Luc Martinez, who departed the museum earlier this year.<\/p>\n

Le Bon takes the top post at the Centre Pompidou as the museum gets ready to\u00a0close for four years<\/a>\u00a0amid renovations. It is currently expected to be shuttered from 2023 to 2027. During that time, the museum will open a\u00a0new satellite museum<\/a>\u00a0in Jersey City.<\/p>\n

Le Bon\u2019s appointment was not the only Pompidou-related announcement on Friday morning. Kanal, a Centre Pompidou outpost that opened in Brussels in 2018, said it was seeking to reverse a decision made earlier this week to have two artistic directors lead the museum: Kasia Redzisz, senior curator at Tate Liverpool, and Bernard Blist\u00e8ne, the Pompidou\u2019s outgoing director. (Blist\u00e8ne\u2019s replacement for the directorship has not yet been announced.) Artists and art professionals in Belgium and France decried that dual appointment,\u00a0claiming that it was sexist<\/a>\u00a0to install a man alongside a woman who was capable of taking up the role on her own.<\/p>\n

A final decision on that front will be announced by Kanal\u2019s board on July 21. \u201cIt will be proposed that the collaboration fully integrates Kasia Redzisz as Artistic Director, while allowing the Foundation to benefit from Bernard Blist\u00e8ne\u2019s experience in the context of the Kanal\u2019s partnership with the Centre Pompidou,\u201d the museum said in a statement.<\/p>\n

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