"Constructed Worlds", in the continuity of "Phares, Musicircus" and "The Adventure of Colour", offers a thematic voyage over a long period, of the collection of the Centre Pompidou - Musée national d’art moderne at the Centre Pompidou-Metz. Through around fifty works, from Constantin Brancusi and Alberto Giacometti to Bruce Nauman, Rasheed Araeen and Rachel Whiteread, this fourth part, accompanied by a mediation through images, explores the sculptural research carried out by artists from the beginning of the XXth century up until today.

Without following a strictly chronological order, the exhibition layout approaches some of the fundamental problems of sculpture, by thwarting the presupposed classics: the placing of the gesture, the presence, absence or integration of the pedestal, the invention and reinvention of sculpture beyond the statuary, of volume, gravitas or immobility. The diversity of works and of currents represented in this exhibition navigates through possible “configurations” of a medium which is sometimes pushed back to its outer reaches: graphic sculpture, on the borderline of drawing, the sculpture “aboveground” and dynamic, sculpture on the borderline of architecture, the monumental impressions or even the sculpture on the point of disappearing with the simulated collapsings.

Ceasing to be an object, sculpture topples over into the “extended field” which the art historian Rosalind Krauss once described, to become a structure, an installation, an environment, a site, a performance...