Small format works – big exhibition.

As already mentioned, I didn’t imagine at the beginning that it would be so well attended. But that just shows that we have the right instinct for you here again ;).

The rooms were large and there were lots of works to see. However, you always had to stand in a queue and go from picture to picture. But that wasn’t too bad. What surprised me: the exhibition is large – 5 large rooms – in which we can discover 240 original silver gelatine prints from the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson in Paris.

These include photographs that we have seen before – whether in history books, newspapers or randomly on the Internet. Cartier-Bresson was a much sought-after photojournalist and was somehow always present at many important events. Particularly noteworthy: the liberation of Paris during the Second World War, the funeral of Charles de Gaulle in Paris and also the cremation of Gandhi in India.

He travelled with his camera during the Second World War, in Spain, in Moscow, at the Berlin Wall, in China, Cuba and the USA, and so on and so forth. He tackles subjects such as the horrors of war, the Cold War, apartheid, women’s rights and much more. The exhibition concludes also his portraits of famous artists, writers and other people.

These portraits are particularly special. For with these he created timeless compositions of Matisse (also currently on show in an exhibition in Barcelona), Giacometti, Coco Chanel, Satre and Duchamp, which look more like snapshots. They are very personal moments that these artists shared with him and in which we can now also participate.

The exhibition thus becomes a real journey through time, allowing us to understand some of the social, political and artistic changes of the last century, as well as the development of photography itself.