Centre Pompidou on 11 cubed

On 11-11-11 at 11:11:11 (coincidence, huh? And yes, I made my wish) I purchased my ticket to enter the eye catching Centre Pompidou. The famously known postmodern architecture "eye sore" which was built in the center of Paris in the 1970's. Richard Rogers, Renzo Piano and Gianfranco Franchini are responsible for this functional design which enabled them to create huge uncluttered space inside by moving all the service sections outside of the building –elevators, stairs, water and air ducts, escalators are all outside. The concept of the building was to be inside out, and upside down. The architect’s goal was to show the public how a building functions and color-coded the different areas – the air pipes are blue, the water pipes are green, the escalators are red, the electricity is yellow. It houses a museum, restaurant, cafe, movie theater, book store, boutique, and a library. Of course the special exhibitions don't allow any cameras, so unfortunately the only images I have of these exhibitions are the memories I burnt into my little brain. The five exhibitions that e museum was hosting was Cyprien Gaillard (21 septembre 2011 - 9 janvier 2012) Edvard Munch (21 septembre 2011 - 9 janvier 2012) Le Blobterre de matali (1er octobre 2011 - 5 mars 2012) Green attitude (8 octobre 2011 - 8 janvier 2012) Yayoi Kusama (10 octobre 2011 - 9 janvier 2012). The Edvard Munch exhibition was spectacular of course. Although having to wait an hour for them to open the exhibit, and then another almost 2 hours to get into the room (only a few people were aloud in the room at a time), that by the time I got in there I got to the point I couldn't even appreciate the artwork because of the high security hovering over our backs making us so uncomfortable that we leave so they can let the next group of people in. Fr those who are not familiar with painters, Edvard Munch was the painter who painted the famous painting called, "The Scream." after that I featured down to the Yayoi Kusama exhibition. By far the most interesting. To save you all you non-artsy folks out there, Yayoi Kusama experiments with a wide arrange of mediums from oil on canvas to a more contemporary medium where the viewer not only can see the artwork, but they get to experiment the work by walking directly through it as she uses water, lights, mirrors, and of course, what she is most famous for: her polka dot obsession. Yayoi is still alive today, locked up in a looney bin where she still creates her tedious masker prices. The Museum has an impressive collection of over 59,000 modern art works from the Cubism, Fauvism, Surrealism, Dadaism schools, featuring artists like Derain, Braque, Matisse, Picasso, Chagall, Kandinsky, Miró and covering a period from 1905 to date.