New Pinault Art Museum by Tadao Ando, will open to the public on January 23

The awaited opening Bourse de Commerce–Pinault Collection, renovated by Tadao Ando in Paris, is finally opening - pandemic permitting, to the public on Saturday, January 23, 2021.

The Bourse de Commerce–Pinault Collection, a contemporary art museum established by businessman and art collector François Pinault, is nestled against Les Halles, between the Louvre to the south-west and the Centre Pompidou to the east, at the heart of Paris.

The new private museum meant to open in June of 2020, began in June 2017, and was completed in March 2020 after a little over three years’ work. Like other openings, the openning plan was scuttled by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic (France ordered lockdown just as artworks and furniture were beginning to be installed).

Inside the Bourse de Commerce — Pinault Collection, by Tadao Ando Architect & Associates, Niney and Marca Architectes, Agence Pierre-Antoine Gatier.Photograph by Patrick Tourneboeuf

"I am delighted with the upcoming opening of the bourse de commerce. Not only will it add to the european landscape of institutions devoted to presenting contemporary art, but after the difficult year experienced by france and the world in 2020, it will contribute to the renaissance of the parisian cultural sphere."

François Pinault

With some 10,500 square meter total surface after the renovation and 6,800 m² of surface of spaces accessible to the public, devoted to the cultural programme de new musuem emerge in a historical monument wath originaly has function as a grain exchange in the 18th century. An iron dome was built to capp its expansive central rotunda in 1811, which is listed as a historical monument, and its panoramic interior mural was commissioned to five different artists at 1889, now completely restored its 1,400 sqm by a team of 24 restorers.

For the building renovation Pinault commissioned the Japanese architect Tadao Ando, who also designed the Pinault’s other museums, as restoring Punta della Dogana and Palazzo Grassi in Venice.

The details of what will be on display at the Bourse de Commerce and its programming will remain a secret until the opening—Pinault’s personal art collection comprises some 5,000 works by the likes of Piet Mondrian, Agnes Martin, Cy Twombly, Damien Hirst, Cindy Sherman, and Jeff Koons.

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TADAO ANDO

Tadao Ando was born in Osaka, Japan in 1941. A self-educated architect, he spent time in nearby Kyoto and Nara, studying firsthand the great monuments of traditional Japanese architecture. Between 1962 and 1969 he traveled to the United States, Europe, and Africa, learning about Western architecture, history, and techniques. His studies of both traditional Japanese and modern architecture had a profound influence on his work and resulted in a unique blend of these rich traditions.

In 1969 Ando established Tadao Ando Architect and Associates in Osaka. He is an honorary fellow in the architecture academies of six countries; he has been a visiting professor at Yale, Columbia, and Harvard Universities; and in 1997, he became professor of architecture at Tokyo University.

Ando has received numerous architecture awards, including the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1995, the 2002 American Institute of Architects Gold Medal, and also in 2002, the Kyoto Prize for lifetime achievement in the arts and philosophy. His buildings can be seen in Japan, Europe, the United States, and India.

In fall 2001, following up on the comprehensive master plan commissioned from Cooper, Robertson & Partners in the 1990s and completed in 2001, Tadao Ando was selected to develop an architectural master plan for the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute to expand its buildings and enhance its 140-acre campus.

Published on: January 7, 2021

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