HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE A GARDEN ?
Jerome had told me that the exhibition « Jardins » (Gardens) was well worth while. There was a similar one at the Metz Beaubourg which I was also considering but looking at the description, I wasn’t too sure if it would be my cup of tea. Safer to go in Paris. What follow is one of the most kitsch videos I have seen as a presentation for an exhibition. It looks so jazzed up! In actual fact it really is how Michel Foucault described it - (15 October 1926 – 25 June 1984: The French Philosopher) «The garden is the smallest part of the world and the whole world at the same time.» Now how would you describe a garden ? An enclosure? A delimited area within a territory? An orchestrated area that is a window to the world…? There are so many possible descriptions. Perhaps each one of us has our own. The exhibition at the Grand Palais is, I would think, not exhaustive. There are paintings from many different periods, drawings, sculptures…the garden becomes a work of art … the questi