A retrospective exhibition about the work and life Art Spiegelman, author of graphic novels and recipient of the Grand Prize at the Angoulême graphic arts festival this year.
This large exhibition is divided into six parts:
The underground – 70s San Francisco
Breakdowns, portrait of the artist as a young man
Maus – the centrepiece of the exhibition and Spiegelman’s work. Import family archive documents will also be presented.
Raw – a magazine and publisher created with Françoise Mouly, now artistic director of the New Yorker
In the shadow of no towers – a post-September 11 project
Illustration work – well-known and lesser-known work
Can you see the faint WTC?
After the success of their Munch exhibition, the Pompidou Centre brings together sixty-odd works to show how Henri Matisse would work on the same motif or subject in a multitude of different ways. During his/her life, the style of an artist can obviously change, slowly or radically or both, whilst still using the same subject as source. Matisse was especially fond of revisiting his own work from a different direction, and this exhibition displays pairs of paintings or series (hence the the title) for us to better compare what has changed and how that affects our appreciation of the piece in question. (thanks)
