Matyss

Matyss

Following the films about Munch, Vermeer and Manet, the Exhibition On Screen cycle offers a virtual journey to the Henri Matisse exhibition in London's main contemporary art gallery. Matisse's decoupages (also known as cut-outs) are the last and perhaps the most unique chapter in the long creative biography of the classic of modernism: "sculpture on canvas", where gouache-painted paper acts as clay, and scissors turn into cutters. The exhibition at the Tate (now moved to New York's MoMA) was the most revealing demonstration of this part of the artist's legacy. As always in Exhibition on Screen, the journey through the gallery halls is complemented by a large number of valuable "bonuses". In addition to comprehensive interviews with the curators of the exhibition (including the directors of Tate Modern and MoMA), the viewer is invited to immerse himself in the diary entries of Matisse himself, voiced by the soft baritone of the meter of the London theater scene, Simon Russell Beale, to listen to a live performance - directly in the interior of the Tate turbine hall - of a composition by the famous London saxophonist Courtney Pine, inspired by Matisse's painting "Jazz" (1947). Another gift will be a dance number choreographed by Will Tackett for the star of the London Royal Ballet, Zinaida Janowska. And finally, the culmination of the film is a journey into the interior of the kinesthetic apotheosis of Matisse's work - the Rozer Chapel in Vance, painted by the artist.