SHARING WITH ME

Coming home from La Maison Rouge, I had been so impressed by the artist, I kept on muttering his name trying to remember, pronounce it and let it sink into my memory buds. So here we go. Eugène Gabritschevsky (1893 –1979) was a Russian biologist and artist. Born into a comfortable family of scientists from Imperial Russia, his father was a renowned bacteriologist, and worked with Louis Pasteur in France and with Robert Koch in Germany. Gabritschevsky studied biology at the University of Moscow from 1913, specializing in problems related to heredity. He finished his studies successfully and went into research. In 1924, he was invited to the United States, where he continued his work for two years, and in 1926, settled in Paris, and continued his research at the Pasteur Institute. By the age of thirty-three, he was well known in his field, and  world-renowned for his knowledge on the laws of mutation in the lives of insects, which of course, I know absolutely nothing about! In ...

Our annual outing with Anne, is usually to Versailles. If you have read my chapter on the excursion this year, you may well understand why Anne was not enthusiastic. She had reason to avoid it.  A few weeks later after I had seen the Olafur Eliasson with Jerome and Laurent, Anne had left a message for me to say that a 15-minute video by a Canadian Artist at their cultural centre in Paris was definitely worth the visit. I looked at the photo and then onto the home page and nothing provoked an enthusiasm to go and see Michele Lemieux. We were in the middle of a heat-wave and everyone was feeling limp. One morning I gave myself a hard kick and said, « stop it, get out and see something ». Looking at my list there was nothing I really wanted to see. I would be seeing the last exhibition of the summer at Saint Pierre with Laurent the following week….Oh well, let’s trot off to the Canadian Cultural centre. 

And my goodness, am I glad I did.  Michèle Lemieux / The whole ...