SHARING WITH ME

On the wall which led down to the Picasso to Jasper Johns exhibition, one cannot help being stopped by this...... Clare Halter was born in Paris and is a journalist and director of a revue called "Elements" for peace negotiated in the Near East from 1967-1977. She discovered design in 1976. Manipulating letters and signs, tiny modules which were microscopic and repetitif, working with a magnifying glass she produced this. It became a picture without any real sense.  (see below on left).  In 2000 she "invested" in one word. Peace which she transposed into all those languages and all those alphabets. In a way I feel she was giving birth to a Peace Monument. She worked along side architects in Paris, Saint Petersbourg, Hiroshima and soon she will be working in Jerusalem.....it was fascinating just reading each line - and I did - and pronouncing each word as she had inscribed it phonetically. 

BNF - just see the poster for expo. The BNF, is I feel, a very off putting building, even to the extent of being « unfriendly ». If one doesn’t want to climb the stairs, there is a rather long detour to go up a hill and then enter the patio. After that you have to find the exhibition centre. What I really mean, is that there has to be a very good reason for going there: It was this…….   Poster outside the BNF From Picasso to Jasper Johns – Aldo Crommelynck’s workshop. 

Now who Aldo Crommelynck was - I certainly didn’t know. Here’s a text straight off the BNF home page. Aldo Crommelynck (1931-2008), printer of works of art, contributed in making Paris a famous city in the field of prints and engravings. Introduced to printing by the master-printer Roger Lacourière, he opens his own workshop in 1956 and collaborates with Tal Coat, Juan Miro, Le Corbusier, Alberto Giacometti, André Masson, Georges Braque... His younger brother, Piero, comes and works with him. In 1963, t

After lunch and taking the time to read all the docs I had picked up, I went onto the Beaux Arts. The building was off putting. Just as the theatre next to it.    Beaux Arts Theatre opposite The exhibition on the sea should have been up my ally. It wasn't. A young man, one of the many attendants, told me I had skipped a couple of rooms - does it surprise you ? When I am faced with this and tiny little booklets (one per gallery), explaining what was on show, I felt that I had moved back into the 19th century when the more you could put on a wall, the better.   Entrance to the sea a shock to the system and another one one booklet by room well at least you could sit down if I had know what it was.... See that "white on the floor?" It's art These are the only works that caught my attention.  Many of them are quite modern......   Laurent Marie Joubert 1952- Twin Portrait 2006-2007 Louis Ernest Barrias (