HELL OR HEAVEN ?
Earlier in the week I went to an exhibition of photography-montage-collage by Joel-Peter Witkin. The title was «Enfer ou Ciel» or «Hell or Heaven». The last way I would describe myself is as puritanical but seeing deformed bodies, mass of flesh and female or males changed physically into the opposite sex - and naked - doesn’t shock me it just leaves me cold. A good friend asked me «but why Bacon and Picasso then ?» This is painting and not changed form through montage. Even if Witkin’s references are Renaissance and many of the photo-montages recognizable in terms of where they came from - somehow that irritated me even more...I came out with a nasty taste in my mouth and walked across the Palais Royal where of course there is the Daniel Buren installation. In 1986 Buren created a 3,000 m² sculpture in the great Palais Royal with «public money» - Called «Les Deux Plateaux but more commonly referred to as the "Colonnes de Buren" ("Buren's Columns"), this