ENORMOUS AND UPTLIFTING
My trip to Metz had been cancelled a couple of times. Now I was off again. Every time I have visited the Beaubourg there, the weather was freezing cold or rain and cold. This time the sun shone and providing I had the time I would do a bit of visiting. Notably the Cathedral which has Chagall stained glass windows.
The exhibition I was to see was « PHARES » or « Beacons » Based entirely on loans from the collection at Centre Pompidou/Museum of Modern Art, the « Beacons » highlights a selection of masterpieces rarely shown to the public due to their monumental size. With no specific chronological order, the exhibition's staging provides an overview of the primary movements in art since the start of the 20th century, from Pablo Picasso to Anish Kapoor including Sam Francis, Joseph Beuys and Dan Flavin. I was so lucky. As the first rush of visitors was over - especially the summer months - there was virtually no-one in the museum. For openings, there was this. Joan Miro’s monum