Event

Amos Gitaï at Centre Pompidou Installation | Talks | Concerts

20—21 May 2023

Musée National d'Art Moderne–Centre Pompidou, Paris

50 years after the 1973 Arab-Israeli war, the Centre Pompidou exhibits for the very first time, Amos Gitaïs’s drawings of the conflict in War Requiem, an installation conceived as a vusual, poetic and musical metitation on war and memory.

A programme of talks, readings and concerts will accompany the installation throughout the weekend.

Saturday 20 May
3pm, Opening by Amos Gitaï
3:15—4pm, Conversation between Amos Gitaï and Mathieu Potte-Bonneville
4—4:30pm, Reading of Mont Carmel by Amos Gitaï (Gallimard, 2009) with Irène Jacob, Micha Lescot and Alexey Kochetkov (violin)
5—6:30pm, Concert with Shani Deluka (piano), Alexey Kochetkov (violin) and Laurent Naouri (baritone)

Sunday 21 May
11am—9pm, Access to Christian Falsnaes’s installation First (2016) and Amos Gitaï’s exhibition
5:30—6:30pm, Concert with Natalie Dessay (soprano), Shani Diluka (piano), Laurent Naouri (baritone), and Le Jeune Chœur de Paris. Directed by Richard Wilberforce