"Marc Chagall, the ferryman of light" on a virtual visit to the Center Pompidou-Metz
Marc Chagall, “The blue rose” (detail);
work produced by the Simon-Marq workshop, Reims;
Study stained glass window for the rosette of the ambulatory of Metz cathedral, dated and signed in 1964. Photo © RMN-Grand Palais (Marc Chagall museum) / Adrien Didierjean © Adagp, Paris 2019
Text by: José Marinho Follow
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It's a first.
The Center Pompidou-Metz has just inaugurated a flagship exhibition, "Marc Chagall, the ferryman of light", in virtual visit, because the event could not wait for the end of the confinement ... Beyond paintings, sculptures, drawings and ceramics from museums and private collections around the world, it is the work on stained glass of the avant-garde artist that is in the spotlight.
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The exhibition
Marc Chagall, the ferryman of light
sheds
light on
the history of the renewal of sacred art through the windows produced by the Russian artist during the last thirty years of his life around the world.
“A
lot of these windows have never been seen.
There is an absolutely striking stained glass window from the 1964 replica of the
Blue Rose
in Metz Cathedral,
explains Elia Biezunski, curator of the exhibition.
A completely fascinating oxide paint.
The Bible was for Chagall the greatest source of poetry of all time.
This was for him an extremely fertile ground of creation, in particular from the 1930s when he produced illustrations for the Bible.
He combines his bestiary, couples of lovers ... What interested Chagall was the supernatural, that is to say, beyond the world.
But this beyond the world is above all poetic, that is to say, it makes it possible to create very singular visions which are never reducible, neither to a dogma, nor to a single interpretation.
"
Although Marc Chagall is an avant-garde artist, his creations constantly pay homage to tradition and the past.
Marc Chagall, “Biblical Message, the Creation of the World: the Seventh Day, the Fifth and the Sixth Day, the First Four Days”, second study for the stained-glass windows of the three windows, 1971. Paris, Center Pompidou, Musée national d'art modern, on deposit at the Musée national Marc Chagall, Nice Photo © RMN-Grand Palais (Musée national Marc Chagall) / Gérard Blot © Adagp, Paris, 2020
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Marc Chagall, the ferryman of light
, from November 21, 2020 to March 15, 2021, at the Center Pompidou-Metz, organized as part of the 800th anniversary of Saint-Etienne cathedral in Metz.
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