SHARING WITH ME

  If you have heard of César, you probably think of crushed metal, iron, cars or something that seems to have been bashed to pieces. This is what I am talking about… Renault 977 VL 06, 1989 Griffe, 1970 and I imagine that most people are well aware of the thumb.  The Beaubourg had created a monumental thumb which was in front of the museum. 

Not being a follower of his work, I had gone to the Beaubourg to see quite another exhibition - which had finished. There was, so it seemed, no-one queuing up for the César retrospective, so I would go and have a look. I’m very glad I did. His « palette » was infinitely larger than I had ever imagined. 

César was born in Marseille in 1921 and died in Paris in 1998. This retrospective was for the 20 years after his death. I had read this quotation somewhere else…                                                                                                                                         « My sculpture developed in line