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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