A MATISSIENNE VISITING FERNAND LEGER IN BIOT

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CONFLICTS AND ENCOUNTERS OF MULTIPLE HISTORIES

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Over the years, I have gone on discovering Wifredo Lam. He has been mentioned in different Blog chapters but always within permanent collections. I have to admit today that in the early years, I took one of his paintings for a Picasso….and seeing certain paintings of his today, it didn’t really surprise me. Especially as I learnt that he knew Picasso…This though was a retrospective of his work at the Beaubourg. Wifredo Lam (1902-1982) was a precursor of a cross-cultural style of painting, infusing Western modernism with African and Caribbean symbolism. He must have been one of the very rare artists who was in contact with all the movements of his time …and all those that I follow. Cubism, surrealism, CoBrA…but he never lost sight of the world around him and took on the struggle to paint the drama of his own country, Cuba. The above photo plunges us at once into the exhibition. Was he an attractive man? I think there are later photos which make him look less brutal….but in my book, ...
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HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE A GARDEN ?

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Jerome had told me that the exhibition « Jardins » (Gardens) was well worth while. There was a similar one at the Metz Beaubourg which I was also considering but looking at the description, I wasn’t too sure if it would be my cup of tea. Safer to go in Paris. What follow is one of the most kitsch videos I have seen as a presentation for an exhibition. It looks so jazzed up!  In actual fact it really is how Michel Foucault  described it - (15 October 1926 – 25 June 1984:  The French Philosopher) «The garden is the smallest part of the world and the whole world at the same time.»  Now how would you describe a garden ? An enclosure? A delimited area within a territory? An orchestrated area that is a window to the world…? There are so many possible descriptions. Perhaps each one of us has our own. The exhibition at the Grand Palais is, I would think, not exhaustive. There are paintings from many different periods, drawings, sculptures…the garden becom...
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THE CHOICE OF ONE OF THE RICHEST WOMEN IN THE WORLD

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The exhibition season is very full between January and the French holiday period. I make less and less effort to go and see the « block-busters » and there are some museums which are not easy to get around. The Jacquemart André is one of them. The rooms are so small and when a couple of groups move in, it is virtually impossible to see a picture or move at all. Still I was interested to go and see the Alicia Koplowitz collection. Now I come to think of it, there have been quite a few private collections shown to the public since the end of last year.  Naturally I knew nothing about this woman.  Alicia Koplowitz is very well known in her home country, Spain. Thanks to her company, the Capital Omega Group  a comprehensive financial services company , she has become an important collect er Alicia is is a Spanish business magnate. When her father died, she and her sister inherited Construcciones y Contratas, S.A. (CYCSA), a company founded by her father. She...
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