Centre Pompidou starts collecting Thonik

Centre Pompidou starts
collecting Thonik
January 2013
The Centre Pompidou, one of the world’s leading
museums, has acquired a series of designs by the
Thonik design agency for its collection. Design Curator Cloé Pitiot put forward a proposal to
the Centre Pompidou’s board, curators and acquisitions
committee after seeing Thonik’s exhibitions in 2010
in Galerie Anatome and the Institut Néerlandais, and
a presentation in the Centre Pompidou. The museum
has collected Thonik’s work for Museum Boijmans Van
Beuningen (2006 onwards), Centraal Museum Utrecht
(1996 to 2006), the MARTa Herford Museum (2003 to
2007), the Venice Architecture Biennale (2008), the
Dutch Socialist Party (SP, 2005 onwards) and
De Appel Arts Centre (2012 onwards).
The Centre Pompidou is interested in Thonik’s
work because it wants to explore and display its
own communications in relation to those of other
museums. At the same time, Cloé Pitiot researched
Jean-Philippe Lenclos, an important designer and
­colourist who made huge graphic wall paintings in
France in the nineteen-sixties. Pitiot sees a kinship
between Lenclos’s work and Thonik’s. Two Thonik
­projects are discussed in the recent book Supergraphics
(Sebastien Hayez, Unit Edition, 2010), which also
contains extensive evaluations of the work of
­Jean-Philippe Lenclos and of Lance Wyman’s
designs for the 1968 Olympic Games.
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The Centre Pompidou
The Centre Pompidou, officially the Centre national
d’art et de culture Georges Pompidou, is the ­leading
centre of modern art in Paris. It houses more than
60,000 works – the largest European collection
of twentieth- twenty-first-century modern and
contemporary art.
Thonik
Thonik is a visual communications design agency.
The studio operates chiefly in the cultural sector and
has become widely known for its work for Museum
Boijmans Van Beuningen and the MARTa Herford
­Museum. Thonik is familiar to the public at large
through its campaigns for the Dutch Socialist Party
(SP), the City of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Public Library
and the Dutch public broadcaster VPRO.
Note for editors:
For more information, image material and requests
for interviews: [email protected] or +31 20 468 3525.
www.centrepompidou.fr
www.thonik.nl
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01 Poster, Museum Boijmans Van Beunigen, 2006
02 Poster, Museum Boijmans Van Beunigen,
‘Soakers’, 2007
04 Poster, De Appel arts centre, 2012