The Centre Pompidou-Metz pays tribute to François Morellet (1926–2016) with a unique retrospective, the largest ever devoted to the artist, bringing together 100 works spanning more than 70 years of creativity.

This exhibition is part of 100 x Morellet, a vast national program initiated by the Centre Pompidou to mark the centenary of the artist's birth.

A painter of rules and disorder, Morellet embodies the tension between geometric rigor and the joy of chance. From his early figurative paintings to his experiments with light, the exhibition reveals a free, ironic spirit, oscillating between mathematical order and optical unreason.

Nourished by Max Bill and inspired by the Alhambra, he invented a concrete art form free of all expressiveness, soon open to the vibration of the gaze and the play of perceptions.