A SUCKER FOR PUNISHMENT
We have visited the Punta Della Dogana (The François Pinault Foundation) on our trips to Venise for the Biennale. There are always one of two installations or paintings which catch our eye. It must have been there too that we saw a magnificent painting done by Zeng Fanzhi as there was a similar painting at the Modern Art Exhibition which I saw a couple of weeks ago. I decided to risk the exhibition of his collection - or a very small part of it - at the Conciergerie. The setting is magic and I have seen quite a few extraordinary exhibitions there. I had expected a long queue to get in. Not a soul. Ominous. That impression got worse. Am I a sufferer for punishment? The exhibition on Maryan left me in a poor state. This is upsetting and depressing. The exhibition is called « Crises and Imprisonment » . I had NOT taken note of that before I walked down to the Conciergerie. The exhibition is in two parts. The first concerns the major upheaval our society is undergoing - ecological