Free Jazz, Henri Matisse and...

Eight artists around Jazz by Henri Matisse: Etel Adnan, Agnès Thurnauer, Pierre Charpin, Jean-Charles de Castelbajac, Isabelle Ferreira, Claire Trotignon, Alexandre Benjamin Navet, Tania Mouraud. In 1947, Henri Matisse published Jazz, a major artist's book of the 20th century that includes twenty colored plates with handwritten ink aphorisms. Almost eighty years after its publication, this book retains all its freshness, an extraordinary visual impact, which the curator wanted to revive in this collective exhibition. Matisse's Jazz sets the tempo for this selection of works, which all revolve around cut-out color, the color that gives rhythm to and constructs space, whether on the page or in a volume. Coming from different worlds, fashion, design or the visual arts, each plays his part according to his affinity with Matisse, a filiation that blossoms into so many distinct but not totally unrelated expressions.