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Next week, Friday 4th March, sees the launch of the 2016 show at the Carrieres de Lumieres at Les Baux de Provence – it’s ‘Chagall: Songes d’Une Nuit d’Eté’.

What a treat this should be!  If you haven’t visited before, this is a unique venue, a disused quarry where 100 projectors transmit images across the 14m high walls and across the floor and 27 speakers bathe the space in music.  The visitor is literally surrounded by colour, image and sound.  Chagall’s brilliantly colourful works should lend themselves to this perfectly.

There will be 12 groups of images or themes playing across the walls:

– Vitebsk (birthplace of Chagall) – Life (couples, lovers) – Poetry and Utopia  – Collages – War – Stained glass – The ceiling of the Opéra Garnier – Daphnis and Chloé – Mosaïcs – Circus – Illustrations – The Bible.

The music has been composed in partnership with Mikhail Rudy, a pianist who was close to the artist.

Last year over 513,000 people visited the venue for the Renaissance exhibition.  But as it is such an enormous space (5000m2), it is never crowded.  It is cold though – even on the warmest day you need woollies in there.

Details here: http://carrieres-lumieres.com/fr/chagall-songes-dune-nuit-dete-0

Les trois acrobates, Paris 1957, lithographie originale, M/S 169, © ADAGP 2016

Dilemma here:  There will be a second Chagall exhibition in Les Baux, prints on the theme of the Circus, but on show at the Musee Yves Brayer from May 2nd.  So, if you want to see both, there’s two months to wait.

Hmmmm……..