SHARING WITH ME

I had already been to see «The Sources of Aborigine Painting» a few weeks ago and had hoped to take my granddaughter.  When she went through the little book I had purchased I could see at once that this was not for her. So we went to see «Animals can teach us a lot» 23/11. Swan was hoping for much more explanation about the dreamtime and the aboriginal paintings themselves. This was not the case. So yesterday I went off with Laurent. The exhibition is a block buster. About the exhibition The exhibition presents for the first time in Europe a major artistic movement, born in 1971-1972 in the community of Papunya, at the heart of the central Australian desert. By transposing to recycled wooden panels the motifs employed in ephemeral ritual paintings, the Aborigine artists of Papunya created an astonishingly inventive formal art, saturated with meaning. These works change the manner of understanding the territory and conceiving the history of Australian art. With more than 160 ca

Obviously an eye has to be trained to see and see something else but there are moments when I can quite happily ignore what is around me and walk through a gallery or a museum seeing nothing that my eye appreciates. This was the case with «La Maison Rouge» a few weeks ago. A contemporary collection by Italians, Giuliana et Tommaso Setari. There was one inciden. I saw this - and thought it was for real.  I was a bit startled when a man came up to me and said «...he does look real, doesn’t he?» We started to chat. He was retiring the following Tuesday and had spent a great number of years as the Curator of one of our largest classical museums. A comment I will not forget. «Madame, I read a lot. I see a lot and have seen a lot but someone has got to explain how to look at this work...I don’t understand what I’m seeing.» We tried to work it out together and did not get very far..... Another exhibition which left me a little cold was «Au-dela du Street Art». «Beyond Street Art». Last ye