Godon in the footsteps of Matisse
- Dated: October 2017
- Media: La Gazette
Godon in the footsteps of Matisse
The team at the Matisse Departmental Museum in Le Cateau-Cambrésis doesn’t hide behind the only work of the town’s native painter, who is this establishment’s sole reason for its existence. Temporary exhibitions allow works by other artists to be shown there, thus “offering a striking and contrasting fresh perspective on the works of Matisse”.
Now it’s Alain Godon’s turn. An unhappy event in his life led Godon to the Pas-de-Calais where he was raised by his architect uncle who injected in him a taste for drawing. At the age of twenty, he was to do his first paintings on the rue de Rivoli in Paris and were his origins as a proponent of “Street Art”. Alain Godon then moved towards painting architectural cityscapes.
It was Matisse’s journey, undertaken in 1930 that 87 years later was to be the pretext for this game of mirrors between the two artists. “Alain Godon produces paintings that may appear simple but are in fact more complex in their construction.” They disclose “a very individual universe harbouring a narrative of the quotidian and revealing a singular imagination, shared with Matisse, born of the desire to bring joy and happiness”.
Hervé MORCRETTE