SHARING WITH ME

Before I even started writing up my experience with «Dynamo», I went back to see Julio Le Parc with Nicky. The experience was as strong as the week before and as usual when you see an exhibition for the second time, you see something else. Especially with cinetic art. You enter into it and there is little to understand if not «how on earth did he do it?». 
 Nicky liked it too.. My enthusiasm after the first visit and then «Dynamo» with Gianni a few days later gave me a lot to think about following a dinner party with Europeans and Argentinians. When I could get a word in, I finally started talking about Julio Le Parc. He had been a teacher of a guest attending the dinner party. The same guest had in his time been very famous, known around the world and then the company he was working for as an exclusive designer went broke and he lost everything. The Jeweler in question did not go broke because of the artist but for other reasons. It was relaunched a few years later ...

 Coming back to Paris is always exciting and there were two exhibitions I was looking forward to. Two different exhibitions on Op art works. I saw them close together but will need a couple of days to digest the second one. They were both extraordinary events. I think that I «met» Julio Le Parc for the first time in 2008 at the ART ELYSEES- Foire d'art moderne et contemporain- Galerie Lelia Mordoch- in Paris and of course the permanent collection in the Modern Art Museum.  There were two exhibitions that year on cinetic art or perhaps Op art, also known as optical art, which is a style of visual art that makes use of optical illusions. "Optical art is a method of painting concerning the interaction between illusion and picture plane, between understanding and seeing." Op art works are abstract, with many of the better known pieces made in black and white. When the viewer looks at them, the impression is given of movement, hidden images, flashing and vibration, patt...

This was to be a new experience ! Travelling with my two closest friends to a city which they had never visited. New York. It all started sometime ago when Helena from Finland,  ( see GLORIOUS COLOURS AND NEW DISCOVERIES )   said she would like to see New York. When I suggested that we go together,  dates were set up at once and I asked Pierrette to join us. I wonder how many times I have visited New York in the last 40 years? The count doesn’t matter but as with so many cities, there is a purpose to my visit and it is rarely if ever as a tourist. This made me a little nervous as just how much could I show them?  All the major museums of course - and yet as we will see, there was one I didn’t know at all. As my plane was four hours late, I was the last to arrive instead of the first but they were both settled into their hotel room. Dinner and bed were next on the menu. So the first day it was going to be the Whitney but when we walked there - it was closed! I...