DO YOU BELIEVE WHAT YOU SEE?
Anne and I have an annual visit to Versailles - the first year it was Murakami in winter 2010, then Joanna Vaconcelos in August last year. Remember? A contemporary artist is invited to create something within the chateau and in the gardens every year.... http://discovmaggsie.blogspot.fr/2012/08/come-with-me-to-versailles.html This year a totally different event. Guiseppe Penone. Italian, rather handsome in my books. Beaubourg I had discovered him at the beginning of this new century, first at the Beaubourg, Tuileries L'arbre des voyelles de G. Penone then I practically fell on top of a tree in the Tuileries Gardens. Before going on, the weather was something like Autumn with changing skies which made the sculptures look even more dramatic. Now let the artist speak.
“Being given the possibility of letting my work dialogue with that of Le Nôtre in Versailles is a great privilege. The garden is an emblematic place which sums up Western thou