On June 24, 2008, the exhibition of Tatiana Trouvé, the winner of the 2007 Prix Marcel Duchanp, operns at the Centre Pompidou. 

Trouvé's exhibition at the Centre Pompidou redefines the geography of Espace 315 to produce an indeterminable space, putting perception into question through the play of scale and perspective. Corridors stretch to infinity, while the space is divided in the middle by a pierced black metal grille; on the walls are new drawings (from the "Remanence" series), black on black, in which forms drawn in graphite pencil or cut from sheet tin emerge and disappear with changes in the angle of view. Bronze sculptures seem to defy the laws of physics, a rope rises up to curve through the air... A whole new world in the interstices of the old.

The title of the exhibition, "4 between 3 and 2", refers to the idea presiding over the creation of this world, the search for an intermediate dimension, a fourth, temporal dimension, between the three dimensions of sculpture and the two dimensions of drawings - a temporality that finds physical expression in the time of the exhibition in a continuous fall of black sand across the walls of the principal space, suggesting the gradual disappearance of the exhibition itself, its obliteration in and by time.

PRIX MARCEL DUCHAMP:  A COLLECTORS' PRIZE

This collectors' prize was set up in collaboration with the Centre Pompidou, the Musée National d'Art Moderne and, since 2005, the FIAC, the International Contemporary Art Fair in Paris. The artists nominated for the Marcel Duchamp Prize are unusually selected by a committee of  collectors and art amateurs selected by the ADIAF. This international jury is composed of experts such as curators, critics and French and international collectors, whose advice is valued highly in the domain of contemporary art.

PRIZE WINNERS:  Thomas Hirschhorn (2000-2001), Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster (2002), Mathieu Mercier (2003), Carole Benzaken (2004), Claude Closky (2005), Philippe Mayaux (2006), Tatiana Trouvé (2007).

(Images top-bottom: Tatiana Trouvé, (announcement) Sans titre, série « Rémanence », 2008 pencil on paper, lead, tin - 76 x 113 cm, Courtesy Almine Rech Gallery, Bruxelles, Courtesy Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Miami & Paris,  Courtesy Galerie Johann König, Berlin.   Portrait Tatiana Trouvé, Photo : Jean Christophe Mazur.  Tatiana Trouvé, Sans titre, 2007, Bronze,  metal, leather, cement, Formica, Plexiglas, mirror, marble, epoxy painting, 160 x 421 x 610 cm, View of the exhibition at l'Arsenale, Biennale de Venise, 2007, Photograph: Daniele Resini, Courtesy Almine Rech Gallery, Bruxelles, Courtesy Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Miami & Paris, Courtesy Galerie Johann König, Berlin © Tatiana Trouvé)