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Affichage des articles du octobre 21, 2014

LET'S GO INSIDE .......LIKE ALICE IN WONDERLAND

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I have always felt that the René Descartes Univercity is a rather imposing building in such a narrow street. It’s not too often that there are temporary exhibitions on, which are not related to medicine. To be honest too, the medical museum always makes me feel rather faint and as yet I have not taken my granddaughter to visit it. I crossed the road on my way out from the Cordeliers as I could see this. Now that looked fascinating. This time around there was a little about the artist but in such an esoteric language it was not easy to follow. Once again, onto Internet. 

The artist’s name is Yorick Efira. 28 years . He also comes from Belgium and studied at the Royal Academy in Brussels. His work comes from looking very closely at our daily lives with colours, contrasts and quite a lot of distorted forms. His subject matter maybe banal but I must say that I really enjoyed his maquette made out of cardboard and felt as if I was a giant looking inside his houses in unso

FACES YOU THINK YOU HAVE SEEN BEFORE

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Waking along the Ecole de Médicine I go past the Cordeliers where there are often temporary exhibitions in a space which I really love. You have visited it with me quite a few times. It was five to 11 and a new exhibition was opening at 11am.  One thing is sure there was no-one at all around. I walked into the space to see this. 
It might be good to be alone, if of course there is no  explanation about the artist. I was probably too early as there was nothing at all. 

Onto Internet when I got home and finally going through the Gallery presenting him, The gallery Davimsy, I understood who he was. 

A Flemish artist from Gand in Belgique. Someone again who was intrigued by graffitis art or tagging and actually went around leeching other artist’s works. I don’t imagine that this went down too well. He may have been noticed but I guess disliked. He moved to England in the early 90’s and learnt a lot more even working on games for Harry Potter. Back to France where he worked