Exhibition: Chagall. A Cry for Freedom

An unclassifiable master of the avant-garde, Belarusian painter Marc Chagall was a privileged but also a troubled witness of the turbulent twentieth century. Through more than 160 paintings and almost a hundred documents, many of them unpublished, this exhibition traces the painter's historical journey through his art, while making clear his firm commitment to equality, tolerance and human rights.

The exhibition has been possible thanks to the collaboration of Fundación Mapfre with two French museums (La Piscine – Musée d’Art et d’Industrie André Diligent in Roubaix and Musée national Marc Chagall in Nice). It approaches Chagall for the first time from the perspective of his unconditional idealism, the desire for universal peace and the associated socio-political implications.The committed artist never abandoned figurative representation, but he mixed the real and the imaginary. His pictorial particularities were also his loudspeaker of expression in the intense journey of a man of Jewish origin born in white Russia (currently Belarus) and initially closely linked to the Revolution. However, art and life took him to Paris and then to exile in the United States, which left an enormous mark on his work that can be seen in this exhibition.