AN UNFORESEEABLE MIXTURE OF ODDITIES
A strange week full of oddities which I would normally not go to see. The first was in the Orangerie in the Luxembourg Gardens. Just on for a couple of days and as usual, I had time before going to a conference. Three artists. Niki Stylianou «Forest - Shadows and Light». Kilar with wooden sculptures and Fikret Moualla, paintings. The document outside the museum didn’t say much more than that. I liked Niki’s work. His father was Greek, his mother Russian and he lives in Paris. Not bad going. I would think that he had a real fascination for trees. He worked with wax which led him into a new area. Trees and each tree with its movement led him to another. Each sculpture had a different movement and his sculptures were reflected in his paintings. If you could define them as such. I’m afraid that I have nothing to tell you about Kilar and not much about Fikret Moualla, although there is a lot on Internet. Kilar's scculpture F