This year, the museum offers a carte blanche, on the idea and the importance of travel in the work of Matisse, to Alain Godon. Travel can take many forms. It is of course physical like that undertaken by Matisse in 1930, from New York to Tahiti, but is also understood as a journey in practice and a wandering in his reveries, in "new cosmic spaces". The trip to Tahiti which supports this exhibition played an essential role for Matisse, notably generating the creation of cut paper a few years later.

Alain Godon discovers drawing with his architect uncle in Nord-Pas-de-Calais, in the city of Le Touquet before seizing his chance on the Parisian sidewalks by becoming a graphic designer, follower of Street Art. Continuing his pictorial journey to England before returning to France at the end of the 80s, he developed a certain taste for urban architecture.

Like a great dreamer who has kept his child's eyes, Alain Godon gives us works that are simple in appearance but whose construction is much more complex, revealing for those who want to immerse themselves in a particular universe inhabiting little stories of everyday life, revealing a singular imagination, sharing with Matisse the desire to bring joy and happiness.

From the discovery of an initiatory journey, carried out 87 years ago by the owner, Henri Matisse, Godon also takes us into his "dream architecture".

Over 150 works: 8 paintings, 49 drawings, 10 sculptures, 96 bildoreliefs, 5 original installations 

Matisse Departmental Museum
Fenelon Palace
Commander Richez Square
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59360 Le Cateau-Cambresis

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