Art and Nature

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Jean Dubuffet, La Gigue Irlandaise (The Irish jig), 1961. Paris. Image courtesy of CaixaForum.

The fascination with the forms of nature is as old as art. Through a collection of pieces from the Center Pompidou, this exhibition reflects on the past and present of the relationship between art and nature, between culture and science.

In this era, in which, under the yoke of multiple crises—climatic, ecological and territorial—nature as we know it is in danger of disappearing, the need to reconsider our links with the world that surrounds us and on which we depend.

This exhibition presents some eighty pieces from the collection of the Musée National d’Art Moderne – Center d’Art Georges Pompidou, with an important presence of artists from recent decades who have contributed new, committed points of view. Painting, sculpture, photography, design and architecture are structured in four thematic sections: metamorphosis, mimicry, creation and threat. In a presentation that renounces didactic categorization or chronology, visitors will enter the universe of nature, which, in the digital age, seems to be the last example of purity and truth.

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