SHARING WITH ME

Anne and I have been going to see the Contemporary exhibitions at Versailles for a few years now. I had seen everything starting with Jeff Koons, in  2008, Xavier Veilhan in 2009. Anne joined me in 2010 to see Murakami, Venet in 2011, Joanna Vasconcelas 2012, Giuseppe Peone, 2013, Lee Uffan, 2014 and now Anish Kapoor. 

Every year, the curators are criticized for their choice of art but this year is perhaps the first time it was vandalized. On June 15th  just a week after it had opened. How on earth the delinquents got into the gardens in the early hours of the morning to disfigure the work with yellow paint is another story. This work has been called every name possible. It has obvious sexual connotations and those you can work out for yourselves but as to showing one’s feeling by disfiguring it, frightens me. Where are we going? 

As we wandered back toward the main gates, a young lady of around 20 odd stopped us and  asked                                   « out of curiosity, do

For a while now I have been in my Secession period (see http://discovmaggsie.blogspot.com/2015/06/dolce-vita-from-liberty-to-italian.html ). Vir Temporis Acti  , ALSO HOMME DU PASSE _ 1924 One of my art magazines had praised the sculptor Aldofo Wildt and there I found he too had been part of this period for a very short while. The sculpture that I saw on posters around Paris is not exactly enticing and yet there was something very modern about it I decided to go along. 

Depending which site you look up he is either Italian or Swiss. For sure he was born in 1863 into a family of limited means. I’m surprised that his birthplace is not so clear. He left school very early to work as an apprentice; first of all a hairdresser and then as a goldsmith. The two professions are hardly related. At 11 he became an apprentice in the workshop of Giuseppe Grandi, so by now was living in Italy. His ability to work with marble made him quite famous by the time he was 18.He died in 1931. Ther