FOLKLORE
CENTRE POMPIDOU-METZ
(March 21st to September 21st 2020)
June 12th to October 4th 2020

Curators: Jean-Marie Gallais, Head of Programming Centre Pompidou-Metz,
and Marie- Charlotte Calafat, Head of the History Department Mucem

A work by Rúrí will be among the exhibited artworks.

From the introduction:   The exhibition opens on the fantasy of a search for origins, the appeal of an “exoticism of the interior”, or of supposed archaic throw-backs which guide Paul Gauguin, Paul Sérusier and les Nabis in Brittany at the end of the 19th century, Wassily Kandinsky and Gabriele Münter when they establish themselves in Bavaria or indeed Constantin Brâncuși, recalling the craft traditions of his native country. The paradoxes rapidly come to the surface from a domain frequently associated with nationalistic claims, or instrumentalised by a political discourse – tensions at the heart of the initiatives of artists such as Jimmie Durham, Valentin Carron, Melanie Manchot or Amy O’Neill.

see more: Folklore

New dates: due to Covid-19