A WEIRD EXPERIENCE
The word « Carambolages » for an exhibition is surprising, to say the least. In English we would say "multiple crash", « pileup" and refer to a car crash. In French too I might add. I had read very little about the exhibition in the Grand Palais and what I had read, confused me. I was right next to the centre yesterday. The exhibition had just started and not a soul in sight.
I did know that there were 200 and more works of art. I walked into th first very dark gallery. Came back and ask where the documentation was. It was so dark I couldn’t see it. As there was a free application to down-load, I did that - which took a little time in the dark. There seemed to be parallel galleries and in the first one, I didn’t have the foggiest what I was looking at. We were told to use our eyes, imagination and interpretive skills. Artists think visually and draw their references from universal art. That is a topic of conversation l had frequently at the dinner table wi