Center contemporary visual arts of Bordeaux

the CAPC will be served in July 2007 by the line tram of Bordeaux: Station CAPC

The Center of contemporary visual arts of Bordeaux or CAPC , is the museum of Contemporary art of Bordeaux inaugurated in 1983.

History

The CAPC is installed in old the Woolly Entrepôt, of food products coming from the colonies in the wearing of Bordeaux, built at the 19th century between 1822 and 1824 by the engineer Claude Deschamps. The place by itself very impressive, is shared between the semi-obscure naves, with the vaults in arc of semicircular arch pointing out the churches, and the luminous terraces arranged on the roof of the building. The CACP was institutionalized in 1983 by the city, but was used already in the years 1970 like him of exposure invested by associations as artists. The warehouse was entirely restored in 1990 by the architects Valode and Pistre then arranged by Andrée Putman.

Collection

Its collection worked out for 20 years, has been particularly rich in works of the movements of Conceptual art, Land Art, Supports/Surfaces or of the Arte Povera, respectively represented by artists like Sol Witt and Daniel Buren, Claude Viallat, Long Richard, and finally Mario Merz. One can also note a beautiful whole of figurative Spanish artists including in particular works of Miquel Barceló. The collection, made up of a thousand of works resprésentant 140 artists, is of a remarkable quality.

External bond

Information for the CAPC on the site of the town hall of Bordeaux

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