THERE WILL ALWAYS BE A NEW ARTIST TO DISCOVER.........
Upon leaving the Borgia exhibition, we were stopped by an attendant and asked if we had visited the second floor. Of course we had not. There were certainly no attendants around when I went to see the Serge Poliokoff. Perhaps the Maillol museum has understood that many visitors don’t think to go further once that have seen the exhibition they came to see.
Invariably the « other » exhibition is modern or contemporary. Once again it was the case. Marielle saw at once that I was in my element. Once again too, I knew nothing about the Russian artist. Born in 1889, in Georgia, David Kakabadze was a « multi-artist »: modernist artist, film director, stage designer, experimenter, inventor of glassless stereo cinema, art researcher and theorist. We are told that he was one of the most significant figures of Georgian modernism. After finishing Kutaisi gymnasium, he studied at the faculty of Natural Sciences within St. Petersburg University. At the same time, he worked in t