SHARING WITH ME

Last year I went to the EDF in August to see « Alive ». It was a fascinating experience which you may like to check out again before going on with this chapter. LOOKING AT OUR FUTURE ALIVE NEW DESIGN FRONTIERS; EDF Foundation 

The Foundation should be easy to find, but somehow they had« moved it » in the last couple of weeks, as every time I went - I couldn’t find it. Today I did. 

This time the exhibition was called « Let there be Light » presented by an agency called Vitra Design. It’s a wide panorama of over some 200 objects taking us through the history of light. I think we all take turning on a light switch as very normal today. Even changing fuses is simple. It wasn’t when I first arrived in Paris and somehow I turned the whole building into blackness. The guardian told me to never touch electricity again. I didn’t.  I don’t. We start right at the beginning of « light ». A collection of light bulbs.   ...

When this exhibition opened at the Louvre, it was a steamingly hot day and the tourists were there in their hoards. Summer is not the best month to go to the Louvre as Marielle and I have discovered many times. However, once you get by the crowds who are en route to see the Mona Lisa and a few other blockbuster pictures, it is reasonably quiet. 

Yesterday we set off to see « Masques, Mascarades et Mascarons." It felt like the middle of winter. The final word  (mascarons) did not ring a bell so I was glad, as you will see, to discover its true meaning.   Primatice, masked figure looking to the right Sure there were a lot of people and as Marielle rightly said when we met up in front of the Information desk, the din must be horrific if you have to put up with it all day. So we set off. There was this huge poster with an arrow on it.  Difficult to believe though, we had to ask at least three people before we were directed to the right gallery. Huge poster ...