Adventure of the color, master pieces
Centre Pompidou Metz
When Dewasne discovered the model for the construction of the Centre Pompidou in Paris in 1970 in the company of Mr Bordas, Germain Viatte and the architects Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers, he protested against the gray color envisaged to cover the building ; and the all went to see Jean Dewasne’s studio, where all the heating pipes were painted in bright colors, like the numerous Antisculptures displayed around them.[…] they immediately decided to take it as a model because the problem suddenly seemed evident to them : the Centre Pompidou would be colored. For more information it’s here and there
Excerpt from the text by Patrice Deparpe published in the catalog Jean Dewasne to the exhibition in 2014 at the Musée Matisse Le Cateau-Cambrésis
Adventure of the color, master pieces. Centre Pompidou Metz