Visite "portes ouvertes"de l'exposition "Pompidou Circus" du MuMo – Centre Pompidou

The MuMo – Centre Pompidou is stopping off in Castellane for three days, from Wednesday 22 to Friday 24 April. Open house: Thursday 23 April from 11am to 12pm and from 4pm to 5pm This exhibition, “Pompidou Circus”, conceived by the Musée National d’Art Moderne – Centre Pompidou, aims to bring works from the Parisian museum’s collections out into the wider world so that as many people as possible can enjoy them. Drawing on the very idea of itinerancy, the travelling show and the caravan, and driven by a desire to bring together all audiences, the exhibition focuses on the theme of the circus. Many works from the Centre Pompidou’s collection explore this subject. The circus is depicted by Henri Matisse in cut-paper works and vibrant colours in his famous book *Jazz*. It is also the melancholic figure of the street performer, a character on the margins of society, brought to life by Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall and Georges Rouault. Clowns and acrobats are the artist’s alter egos: through them, reality and imagination intertwine; they master a thousand tricks, bringing laughter and dreams to delight the audience, before finding themselves alone once the curtain has fallen. The circus, of course, also features a whole repertoire of animals. At the MuMo, visitors will therefore encounter horses and elephants, alongside animal trainers and riders; trapeze artists and harlequins; clowns and magicians. This gallery of characters will invite visitors to step ‘through the looking-glass’ for a journey into the world of the circus.