L'AIR DU TEMPS
Summer came in September and October. People were smiling again, coffee lounges were full and their customers doing the French thing, watching the world go by. Despite this, I was off to the Beaubourg to see the Marcel Duchamp prize winner’s work and Robert Delaunay. As the weather was so good, I was hardly expecting crowds and yet crowds there were, to the extent that staff were making comments about it. For the M.D. exhibition which as it is an installation, there was only one gallery and no-one around. This prize was created in 2000 by the ADIAF (Association for the International Dissemination of French Art - no wonder we call it the ADIAF!), which brings together 350 collectors and lovers of contemporary art. There is an International Jury which consists of experts in and outside of France in the contemporary art world: curators, critics, collectors…..I go and see each laureate’s work and usually come out rather baffled. What was it all about?
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