John Spurling

Apotheosis of Caro

Anthony Caro’s Chapel of Light<br /> <em>Church of St-Jean-Baptiste, Bourbourg </em> The Barbarians and Clay works<br /> <em>Musée des Beaux-Arts, Calais, until 23 February 2009</em> Paper works and Table sculptures <br /> <em>Musée de Gravelines, until 21 February 2009</em> Steel sculptures <br /> <em>Lieu d’Art et d’Action Contemporaine, Dunkirk, until 21 February 2009</em>

issue 25 October 2008

Anthony Caro’s Chapel of Light
Church of St-Jean-Baptiste, Bourbourg

The Barbarians and Clay works
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Calais, until 23 February 2009

Paper works and Table sculptures
Musée de Gravelines, until 21 February 2009

Steel sculptures
Lieu d’Art et d’Action Contemporaine, Dunkirk, until 21 February 2009

There was once a small town called Vence, just inland from Nice on the south coast of France, which few people had heard of. Then, between 1947 and 1951, the octogenarian Matisse transformed a derelict garage, used by local nuns as a chapel, into an architectural work of art which has made Vence one of the landmarks of the modern world.

Bourbourg is a small town, just inland from Calais and Dunkirk on the north coast of France, which until this month had little to boast of except its big 14th-century church of St-Jean-Baptiste.

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