All cavities, submitted to the court audience, differ from each other

exhibition where there are no exhibits, no long surprised - there was a full-fledged art form more than half a century ago. Recently, the Center Pompidou in Paris curators have decided to recall the artists whose works are taught to appreciate the audience there, and organized an exhibition «Void. Retrospective ».

Nothing displayed in rooms on the fourth floor of processed (ie, not processed) by nine authors. All rooms completely empty. Lighting them is the same as in the rest of the museum premises. Pompidou Staff are closely monitoring the visitors that they do not change - more specifically, that they are not touching anything .

from an unusual retrospective refused many leading museums from other countries - far too risky to show them this idea, because the creation of this kind often cause public confusion and even anger. When in 2001 the artist Krid Martin (Martin Creed), presented to the jury an empty room, received the prestigious Turner Prize, Britain broke out in a terrible scandal. Many people do not understand why celebrate an artist who can not provide any «material» proof of its creativity. With the Pompidou curators are in the works, causing people such mixed reactions?

The world's first exhibition was held void in 1958 in the Paris gallery Claire Iris (Iris Clert). She made a famous French «new realist» Yves Klein (Yves Klein). At that time, he was fond of the ideas of Zen Buddhism, for which «void» is one of the key concepts. According to Klein, in a totally empty exhibition space, people are beginning to perceive acutely that surrounds them. Interestingly, Klein not only exhibited emptiness: he sold it, but only for gold. Then he publicly threw the gold into the Seine. One of the goals «retrospectives emptiness» Pompidou Center - pay tribute to this ingenious artist.

French museum curators to recreate the exhibition «Air», arranged in 1967 by a group of British artists Art & Language. The main exhibit is, like the title says, air conditioning. Another empty room we can see (ie, not seen) nothing kontseptualista-American artist Robert Barry (Robert Barry), who at one time said «Nothing, in my opinion, is the most powerful thing in the world». In 1970, he organized an exhibition of the «there», calling it «Places where we can go and quietly think about what we are going to do next».

Some of the artists, the exposure emptiness, for example, Maria Nordman (Maria Nordman) and Robert Irwin (Robert Irwin), called on viewers to pay more attention to the exhibition space. In 1993, the artist from Wales Betah Hyuc (Bethan Huws), put nothing in krefeldskom Museum Haus Esters, motivated his decision that the material works to divert the attention of visitors from the remarkable architecture of a building designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (Ludwig Mies van der Rohe ). In 2001, another artist, German Ayhhorn Maria (Maria Eichhorn), decided to show the emptiness in the Berne Kunsthalle, a museum has been able to save money on her show, and to reconstruct.

Very interesting concept coined for its rooms with a void the author of the Slovak Roman Ondak (Roman Ondák). He let the rumor that the room is hidden tap. Piece Ondaka leads visitors to the museum to remember that around us there are many things that can not be seen, but which are nevertheless used by us paranoid ... This concept has another goal. Going into the empty space where the artist «put» nothing, the audience begin to carefully examine it in search of listening devices. So they are better able to «feel» the space in which it is located.

One of the curators of the exhibition, Mathieu Copeland (Mathieu Copeland) said that one of its themes is the negation of the artists of visual arts, their reluctance to add new images in the world, which is already their zahlamlen donelzya.

As we have seen, all the artists who have selected their material, nothing, had different goals. Someone encourages the viewer to release your mind and contemplate the void, someone proposes to fill this void. Perhaps the most famous piece of art on emptiness - composition by John Cage (John Cage) as 4'33. She sits in front of singer and piano for four minutes and thirty three seconds does nothing. Many of those who have seen this presentation, it is said that during the «performance» song they heard in silence a lot of interesting things. Works like 4'33 - is also the music, but it is not a musician performs, and its surrounding world. All of what we call art, once was emptiness - an empty canvas, a blank wall, etc. And each artist himself decides what to do with this emptiness. Someone painted on canvas, someone is simply nothing in the court audience and tells her that in that there is something there. Often the authors of the empty rooms remind viewers that the main objects in these spaces is they themselves. Visitors the opportunity to look at ourselves with new eyes - as a work of art.

exhibition at the Pompidou last until March 23.

Material prepared Yulia Maksimova

Sources: independent.co. uk , artinvestment.ru