BETWEEN TWO HORIZONS
I had been looking forward to going to The Centre Pompidou-Metz for sometime and it was mainly to discover the German artist and choreographer Oskar Schlemmer (1888-1943), who revolutionized dance and performance art especially within the Bauhaus. There was virtually nothing on Internet about him - or very little anyway but the couple of images I had seen of costumes, were fascinating. This exhibition demonstrates his desire to turn performing arts into a modern art form in its own right, as well as his performances, dances and costume parties, and even his staging of works by great composers like Igor Stravinsky or Arnold Schönberg. Of course, no photos. I wasn’t too concerned as there would be on Internet - but there was not one picture of what I had seen. Very disappointing. Then of course I knew that I would be better satisfied with the exhibition « Between Two Horizons ». My period and there would be a lot to see - and learn. It tells more than a century of a shared and