Centre Pompidou Málaga

Sunday February 16 was another beautiful sunny day with a high of 18C.   We had a bit of a slow start as we had been up quite late the night before.  Our destination for the day was the Centre Pompidou Málaga- an outpost of the Pompidou Museum in Paris.

We walked by Plaza de la Merced.  A politician was giving a speech to a small crowd.  We weren't sure what it was about, but there were flags and an honour guard of some sort.

Clearly a politician
Interesting garb
We headed down to Paseo del Parque-right beside Parque de Málaga (Jardin Subtropical).  Lots of birds in the trees.

Alano strolling down the Paseo del Parque

We passed the very elegant City Hall (Ayuntamiento)

View of the Alcazaba
The Centre Pompidou Málaga is located in Málaga port. It opened on March 28, 2015 and is housed in El Cube, a cuboid glass structure.  There is an entrance below the cube on one side.  Unfortunately, the museum is being renovated and the permanent collection will not be reopening until March 12, 2020.   We were, however,  able to see a very good temporary exhibit.
Centre Pompidou Málaga

The entrance
The temporary exhibit Alechinsky in Inkland featured 75 works from Alechinsky's almost seventy-year old career.  Pierre Alechinsky was born in Brussels in 1927 and became a member of the CoBrA group in 1949 (named after the initials of the members' home cities: Copenhagen (Co), Brussels (Br) and Amsterdam (A)).  The CoBrA avant garden movement was active from 1948-1951.

In 1951, Alechinsky moved to Paris.  He developed a practice with gouache and Indian ink, before discovering acrylics in 1965.   One of his quotes is "to draw is to question."  Another quote on one of the walls of the exhibit read:" I draw as I can't say it in words."  His work has often been linked to abstract expressionism.  He is 92.
The artist at work

Fossile de l'instant, 1999


Central Park, 1964 ( Indian ink on paper)

Hoirie-Voirie, 1968 ( Indian ink on a 17th century manuscript)
Krach, 1976 (Indian ink on a treasury bill of the General Railways and Trams Company of the Republic of China from 1920)

Krach, 1976, Indian ink on a stock certificate of the Coal Mining Company of Nanh-Binh [Tonkin] from 1929

Première sortie, 1977, Acrylic on paper

Niagara de nuit, 1976. --- based on a visit to Niagara Falls

Visage et Rivage, 2018- Ink on a legal register from 1819


Le Bleu d'abondance, 2002
There were two paintings from a series done on 17th century military maps from an atlas found in pieces at the Scrap Fair on the island of Catou.  


 La Poche de Dunkerque, 1990


Le Secteur de Loches, 1989


In 1983, a new technique entered Alechinsky's formal vocabulary: stamping.  It consists of rubbing a surface on paper, to reveal the reversibility of the imprint, which appears as a negative of the original surface.
The picture on the left is Chien libre, 1986 and the one on the right is Bouclier Urbain, 1986.  Stamping of a bronze manhole cover on paper, Indian ink and acrylic on paper mounted on canvas.


It was a very interesting exhibit.  Unfortunately, the rest of the building was under renovation



After our visit to the Pompidou, we continued to walk along the water.  There were many restaurants, shops and craft stalls and lots of people out on a Sunday.  The area is called Muelle 1.
Alano at the water's edge- working on his tan today

Schools of fish in the harbour
We passed the Chapel of the Port of Málaga which has an interesting history.  In 1531, an oratory was erected in the Port with an image of Our Lady of the Sea.  It was demolished by the siege of the Armada of Flanders and rebuilt in 1649.  In 1719, the building was moved and it was converted into a Chapel inaugurated in 1725.  It was dedicated "to saying mass for the people of the sea."   In the 1970s it was moved once again to its current location.

The Chapel

This part of the harbour was buzzing.  Lots of craft stalls and restaurants.
Lots of kiosks selling crafts and jewellery

View of the cathedral
Boats in the harbour

View of the Alcazaba




We sat in the sun for awhile and then headed back to the Plaza de la Merced where we had a bite to eat at Cafe Calle de Bruselas.  We shared a tapa of tuna tartare and avocado and a piece of tortilla with some red peppers.  I also had a glass of vermouth.
Alano and lunch

In the sun

The patio where we had our lunch-- just a few doors away from Picasso's birthplace

We wandered around a bit more in the sun and then headed back to the apartment.  Alano made dinner.  We had dorade (sea bream), potatoes, zucchini and a glass of red wine.  A very relaxing Sunday in Málaga.

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