FOLLOWING RECOMMENDATIONS......


 The Mutual Art site (http://www.mutualart.com) sends me updates on exhibitions around the world (I do dream) and for Paris on a regular basis, a couple of times a week. One of them this week was for the Daniel Templon Gallery. I knew of Jim Dine’s work as he is reasonably well known for his range of techniques. He’s an American and had chosen to celebrate his 80th birthday with a new Installation in Paris. City of Glass .

The exhibition is a result of two and a half years work and possibly does celebrate his creative power. He’s certainly unique.

















The tools he uses in his work are as crucial as the finished work. He personally heated and twisted the tools used to create the glass cities which if you look closely include some weird and wonderful objects ! Would you believe that Dine is using blown glass for the very first time as a way, as he says it « to sculpt with light ».






There are also a series of large drawings - and I would never have thought that they were drawings - of tools which echo the City of Glass. It was magic.




Yes he's in one of the drawings....





To complete the show, I crossed the road to see Oda Jaune’s work. Her small exhibition was called - or is called « Masks » (both exhibitions are on until the 24th July). They are watercolours that examine the idea of a mask. From my point of view they are very ambiguous scenes depicting characters confronting a form of metamorphosis and the interplay of transformation. I said to the young man at the desk when I had completed my tour twice - « goodness they are violent ». He was quite surprised by my reactions. I saw other work of hers in the same gallery some years ago and don’t remember being either ambiguous or violent. I also saw her work at the Maison Rouge at « Tous Cannibales ». I think the name of the exhibition repelled me a little, but I do remember that there were some interesting paintings. This time, I’m not so sure.
This is just a selection of her work - which I could take......



Touching in a way




















It was certainly not a Channel lipstick add anyway. But the « Baby » - of not a mask, was quite touching. What do you think? 









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Michael Keane a dit…
I’m always presented with a dilemma when it comes to ‘junk sculpture’ – I want to like it but I can’t. Hence I’m no fan of Mr Dine’s work – but maybe if he explained it to me….. I’m also not a great lover of ‘manipulated body parts’ such as in Oda Jaune’s sculptures and drawings. Consequently, Francis Bacon is ‘out’ as far as I’m concerned - reminds me too much of Otto Dix’s grotesque wartime pictures.
26/7/15 07:44
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