THE PHOTOS SEEM MORE INTERESTING THAT THE REAL THING
For our annual visit tot Versailles, Anne and I went off to see the South Korean artist Lee Ufan. I knew nothing about him and as usual did not do too much research on Internet before we went. I’d looked at a few of the photos in the gardens and left it at that. The Beaux Arts article had been very philosophical and I have to say, there was no real enthusiasm or excitement about our day out. To begin with the crowds were horrendous. As Anne now has an Icom card as well, there was no waiting and it was perhaps not interesting enough to see the one sculpture inside the Castle.
I had read about his « Arch » in front of the chateau, that from a certain point it disappeared completely from view. Something to do with light and the material used. The picture on Internet shows it in all its glory - and no, we did not have that pleasure. Just a little about him….. Born in 1936 in a mountain village in South Korea, Lee Ufan was first initiated to traditional Chinese culture.