SHARING WITH ME

Well perhaps you think I am? She went to see another lot of installations when really she is not impressed by them?  It’s not the installation that entices me to visit the Musée de la monnaie, it’s the space itself. Much more adapted to installations than to traditional exhibitions. Remember Maurizio Catalan? That was the last time I had been. 

The advertising for the exhibition was boiled down to a few posters but nothing clearly on the museum outside wall, which is usually the case. This is all I had seen...   As it  was meant to be an exhibit of the works of Man Ray, Duchamp, Klein and the likes. So you can see why I went along. Once I was inside the museum, there was the word "shock" written all over my face. I know artist have their off days, but frankly this is not art. A new word must be created for such exhibitions which are not perennial at all. Once inside, I read this…. Floor-naments” explores this “flattening” of one of the trade’s essential technique:...

When I was making out my list of exhibitions to see, not forgetting those around Europe, I asked myself but why is it « Picassomania»  year? There seem to be exhibitions all over the place and before the end of the year in France there will be five  - maybe more. It’s not a celebration year. (188l-1973). Could it hav e something to do with Olga? His Russian wife as they married in 1917? There is an exhibition on their relationship as well . That will be my next chapter. After a little hunting around I discovered that Bernard-Ruiz Picasso (grandson of Olga and Picasso)  who is the joint co-curator of the Parisian museum is now much more lenient about works being shipped and shown in other museums - around the world. As this was not the previous strategy it could mean that more and more museums are able to put on blockbuster exhibitions. We must remember that there are over 5000 works of Picasso in the Parisian archives alone. Overtime, wherever I have been I always...