Edvard Munch. The Modern Eye

The Centre Pompidou (Paris, France) organizes Edvard Munch. The Modern Eye, an exhibition with almost 140 of his works, including some 60 paintings, 30 works on paper and 50 vintage photographs. The show also reunites a number of films and one of the artist's very rare sculptures, Edvard Munch, l'oeil modern, which throws new light on the work of this celebrated Norwegian painter (1863-1944) by showing how his interest in all the forms of representation.

Contrary to the received opinion that sees in Munch a nineteenth-century artist, tormented and reclusive, the exhibition shows that he was aware of the aesthetic debates of his time, engaged in a constant dialogue with the most contemporary forms of representation - photography, film and theatre.

The exhibition has been organised in close collaboration with the Munch Museum in Oslo. Most of the works come from there, though some have been loaned by the National Museum, Oslo, the Bergen Museum of Art and other collections abroad.

Date: until January 9, 2012.
Place: Centre Pompidou. 75191 Paris cedex 04. France.
Opening hours: from Wednesday to Monday from 11am to 9pm.