François Morellet, 100 per cent, Centre Pompidou-Metz

To commemorate the centenary of the birth of François Morellet (1926-2016), the Centre Pompidou-Metz presents a retrospective in 100 works ranging from 1941 to 2016, the most comprehensive retrospective to date of the artist.

 

Morellet is unique in that he was both the leading French figure of geometric abstraction and the one who most decisively contributed to destabilising it. Through the selected works, this major retrospective explores the ambivalence between reason and unreason, between the legacy of Francis Picabia and that of Piet Mondrian, whom the artist liked to refer to.

 

Link to Centre Pompidou-Metz’s webpage

 

March 17, 2026