The first exhibition, called "Masterpieces", "You can see almost 800 works by leading artists of the twentieth century

French town of Metz was nicknamed "northern Bilbao" - now there's a branch of a major modern art museum, located in a very original buildings. "Parent" of the new museum is the Centre Pompidou in Paris, which henceforth will be exhibited at Metz part of his collection. The construction has been spent 86 million euros.

This week, visitors can see the first exhibition, which was called "Masterpieces". There will be displaying some 800 works, including works by Matisse, Picasso, Kandinsky, Miro, Braque, Chagall, Leger, Brancusi, Jackson Pollock, Giacometti and Dubuffet.

Metz is on the north-east , 300 km from Paris. Its population is 280,000 people. It is expected that the new museum will attract about 400,000 tourists a year. Pompidou in Metz was the first museum built in order to "decentralize" the vast collections of art belonging to the French state. In 2012 in Lans, you should see the Louvre branch.

The museum will be changed every six months or a year. According to the president Alain Pompidou Seba (Alain Seban), was originally the idea of a platform that would dramatically increase the number of exhibited works (a collection of the Pompidou is very extensive: it consists of 65,000 works by artists of the XX - XXI centuries, most of whom have never exhibited). "But our project has become much more ambitious - he said. - Centre Pompidou in Metz must find her own identity, begin to organize their own exhibitions. In addition to fine art, the Pompidou in Metz will acquaint visitors with other kinds of creativity: contemporary cinema, dance, music ...

authors of the building, the roof of which resembles a giant stingray, are the Japanese architect Shigeru Ban (Shigeru Ban) and his French colleague, Jean de Gustine (Jean de Gastines).

material prepared Yulia Maksimova, AI

Source: independent.co.uk , artinvestment.ru