Monday, April 17, 2017

Pompidou in Metz


The second floor was literally the warmest (it was such a cold day when I visited), not just from heating perspective but also being so colorful, green, and aromatic featuring plants and flowers, including Neto's interactive umbrella exhibit.

On the ground floor was the main exhibit featuring music and sound, of which I particularly liked the below.

   

 This was a very old piece, but did not look like it at all. It is nice to see the longevity in something that I can imagine could easily become conveniently outdated.

Neto in the entryway of the Pompidou

It was such a cold weekend when we visited Metz and it was the same coldness inside Pompidou but Neto's giant exhibit immediately gives you a nice tingly warmth in the entry hall.




Neto at the Pompidou







Saturday, April 15, 2017

Beautiful art nouveau museum in Nancy


It took a while to remember that Nancy was the city of the movement for Art Nouveau. The museum Musée de l'École de Nancy houses the perfect amount of furnitures from that time that we cannot see elsewhere. It was such a pleasure to walk through the number of beautiful pieces, thinking about this very short lived period, which marked its end during World War I. I still remember how I felt as a student how it was such a pity that such a beautiful style went unpopular and extinct, because it was so difficult to combine with other furnitures, which is indeed true.