in Le Havre, wind in the canvases

A bed of tall herbs and spiked grasses has been specially planted at the foot of the André Malraux Museum of Modern Art, to the harbor. It undulates with the sea breeze, sowing all around… This landscape creation announces the exhibition on the ways of representing the wind mounted inside.

In this large glass box set up at the entrance to the port that is the MuMa, with its huge windows overlooking the smoke from car ferries or container ships and the sails of pleasure boats, this is an appropriate theme. As were already, in previous years, those of the wave, clouds or electric urban lights, all initiated and largely designed by the director, Annette Haudiquet.

The artists of yesteryear

Force of life or destruction, the wind can caress or whip, relieve or suffocate, it is always formless, invisible, pure movement. “That which cannot be painted”observed Pliny the Elder. “This ancient question sets the limits of painting”summarizes the commissioner