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Affichage des articles du novembre 22, 2017

1932 AN EROTIC YEAR

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Laurent had sent over to me a series of pictures of installations at the Karsten Greve gallery. Despite my lack of interest in such work, these looked fascinating. I’ll give it a try. It was a cold bleak day when I started off. As I do everything I can on foot in Paris, I try out new ways of going somewhere with the GPS on my ‘phone. Such new paths can be fascinating or frankly silly - like going down all the parallel streets to get to your destination making the walk at times very much longer. This was the case so by the time the turn to the gallery came into sight, I changed course and went by the Picasso museum. A new exhibition opened in October which was written in black lettering on my list. « 1932 - and Erotic year .» With such a title I was sure the crowds would be queuing up for some way…no-one. So change of course and into the Picasso. May have been no-one outside but this was not the case inside.    The exhibition was set out month by month. 366 days in the life of Pic