SHARING WITH ME

I had never heard of Carol Rama but she was on my list of exhibitions to see. Strangely enough, Lüpertz had not been. The latter had taken me a good hour and a half to digest and I wasn’t too sure if I could cope with Carol Roma at once. It was Saturday and people were beginning to pour into the museum. I would give it a go and then think about a belated lunch. 

Strange as it may seem I started this exhibition without intending to do so from the end of her career. « The Passion according to Carol Rama » End? Well not quite as Carol Rama is still working and living in Turin. She is 99 (born in 1916). I watched a relatively recent video on her life and found that even for me, her outspoken eccentricity was just a little bit too much. She is supposedly a solitary self taught artist. A reactionary to say the least and although she has mixed with many of the great names over her life and alongside the major avant-garde movements of the 20th century, Expressionism, Surrealis...

Jerome and Laurent often send me over photos when they are visiting an exhibition. Can I guess who it is? The latest one seemed very familiar. I thought it was Baselitz but of course was not sure. Baselitz Baselitz Baselits I don’t think that they really appreciated Markus Lüpertz (born in 1941…) and I can understand why. There is something very heavy about his work, monumental in many cases and not too easy to « relate to ». I will be quite honest, if the exhibition had traced this huge retrospective (over 100 works) starting from the beginning, I don’t know how I would have got on either. The curator had decided to start at the end of his career. This is what I came into. You may understand why I was not so sure if it was’t Baselitz. https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1293881580874583965#editor/target=post;postID=1819884230979854768;onPublishedMenu=allposts;onClosedMenu=allposts;postNum=2;src=link.  (I’m sure there must be a way to make these l...