SHARING WITH ME

Somewhere I have seen them - for real.  Considering EVA & ADELE are walking and living art, you would think that I should remember where I had seen them. Berlin? In an exhibition? At the Venice biennale where they go every year? Yes, it’ probably there where I came up across them for the first time. Surely my eyebrows rose a good few inches. It is not easy to accept this couple of walking art and yet somehow they more than attract attention. 
 Always identically dressed but not the kind of female  clothing that my friends would wear.    Just part of a photo of all their dresses They seem to be like an event within an event. You go to an opening. There they are and they too seem to be part of the show, even if they are not. Their "traveling car" Whatever they do or wherever they go, they are « a museum ». 

This all happened in 1991 - nearly 26 years ago. They met, f e ll in love as a man and woman. Of course...

It’s quite a while since I have been along to the Galerie Maeght in Paris.           ( http://www.maeght.com /)  but it is one of the most interesting in my book for modern and contemporary art. Some of my friends have what I define as « Gallery Days » . They wander around the different quarters which have the most interesting exhibitions and just pop in. It’s ridiculous to say but I always feel a little nervous about « just popping in » as if the owner will jump on me a a potential buyer. Silly, isn’t it ! I knew nothing about François Lamore’s work but had come across it in an art magazine. This was enough to entice me over to the Rue de Bac and see the painting for myself.  "Demeure" - 2016 He’s lucky in my book as he was born to a French Mother and an American Father so from the start was imbibed in a double culture. He speaks many languages, Arabic being one of them. He also spent some time ...

Just somehow too much . Now why should a blog chapter on an exhibition have such a title. Bare with me as I am going to express a few personal thoughts on the matter and probably pretty intimate too. 

It’s been years now since I have read about the Shchukin collection in Russia along with Morosov. They were two Russian art collectors who stood out at the beginning of the 20th century: the cloth merchant Sergei Shchukin (1854–1936) and the textile manufacturer Ivan Morozov (1871–1921). Both acquired modern French art, developed a sensibility for spotting new trends, and publicized them in Russia. Shchukin was among the earliest to appreciate the work of French Impressionist artists. When the French were pronouncing them insane and worthless, Shchukin boldly sought out the work of “rejected” artists. By 1904, he owned 14 Monets. Impressionist works adorned the music room of his villa in Moscow. He then turned his attention to the artists of the next generation. He wanted to introduce th...