SHARING WITH ME

  Remember the exhibition on the garden? How would you describe a garden? It was following this that  I had noted on my "To see List" an exhibition entitled "Le Pouvoir des Fleurs" ("The Power of Flowers" is a word for word translation). I  mentioned it to quite a few people but no-one seemed in the least bit interested in joining me for a visit to the Musee de la Vie Romantique.    The museum's courtyard This museum is a little off my usual route - I guess that I was never a romantic! So had I been there? Once inside the museum it came flashing back that I had seen something with Gianni and that was "forever" ago. The artist was unknown to me. This resumes who he was... Pierre-Joseph Redouté (10 July 1759 – 19 June 1840), was a painter and botanist from the Southern Netherlands , known for his watercolours of roses , lilies and other flowers at Malmaison . He was nicknamed "the Raphael of flowers" and has been ca...

La Maison Rouge is to be closed by its creator Antoine de Galbert at the end of 2018. No, not because of a financial crisis, but just because he feels that he can’t go any further and needs to create something new. This is all quite disconcerting when you go to see Hélène Delprat’s exhibition « I Did it My Way » a bric-a-brac of ideas, collages, installations and a pathway through the unreal. As I had not (intentionally) looked up to see who she is, I had one of the biggest shocks I can remember when walking into the exhibition….I saw this…. Les (fausses) conferences , 2017 Les (fausses) conferences , 2017 Not only was it extraordinary real (I’m sure I saw a finger move » but the title was « Les (fausses) conferences, 2017 Mannequin à l'effigie de l’artiste » I don’t think that this needs translating.  The likeness of the artist? Who was « it » ? A man? We are hearing so much about transgenders at the moment,  those who want to...