SHARING WITH ME

A good friend, Michel Dheurle had introduced me to Miquel Barcelo in 2010. I started writing my Blog in 2012. Barcelo had bowled me over and the the exhibition in Avignon in the Palais de Papes and it was even more impressive because of the setting. There had been nothing about Barcelo for quite a while and then, bingo. One of my favorite art pages  indicated that there would be an exhibition in the Thaddeus Ropac Gallery. This time I informed Michel at once and we planned to see it following his return from the south of France. I got to the gallery a little before Michel did and came in onto this. Apart from the fact that the space was empty, the sun was shining through on these curious creatures. I literally gasped The Gallery Thaddaeus Ropac The exhibition which is called « L’Inassèchement » is not an easy description to translate. The opposite to drying up but can you think of a better word ? The exhibition regroups 17 recent paintings which explore the life underwater

I had never heard of Carol Rama but she was on my list of exhibitions to see. Strangely enough, Lüpertz had not been. The latter had taken me a good hour and a half to digest and I wasn’t too sure if I could cope with Carol Roma at once. It was Saturday and people were beginning to pour into the museum. I would give it a go and then think about a belated lunch. 

Strange as it may seem I started this exhibition without intending to do so from the end of her career. « The Passion according to Carol Rama » End? Well not quite as Carol Rama is still working and living in Turin. She is 99 (born in 1916). I watched a relatively recent video on her life and found that even for me, her outspoken eccentricity was just a little bit too much. She is supposedly a solitary self taught artist. A reactionary to say the least and although she has mixed with many of the great names over her life and alongside the major avant-garde movements of the 20th century, Expressionism, Surrealism, Concre