From 12 September to 10 December 2018, the Centre Pompidou presents the biggest ever retrospective of the work of Franz West (1947–2012), including almost 200 artworks. Organized in collaboration with Tate Modern, London, it represents the first opportunity to acknowledge the role of the Austrian artist, one of the most influential figures of art of the last half-century. The exhibition abundantly celebrates the artist’s work from 1972 to 2012. It includes his rarely exhibited drawings from the early 1970s as well as his first sculptures, the series of Passstücke, begun in 1973–74, and performative sculptures made to engage with the viewers to “reveal their neuroses”. The exhibition also includes a selection of the papier mâché sculptures of the 1980s, together with a number of collaborations with fellow artists, among them Herbert Brandl, Heimo Zobernig and Albert Oehlen. The show also features W
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