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Wednesday, May 25 2011

MONUMENTA PARIS

MONUMENTA is an exhibition which takes place every 2 years where an artist creates a special piece of work to put inside the Nef of the Grand Palais: a glass-roofed steel building 137 metres high.

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This is an aerial view, you can see the red ballon in three parts inside the building.

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This is one view of what I saw inside, the size (taille) was unbelievable.

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Look how small the people are next to it! The balloon is made of special plastic, weighs 11 tons and was blown up (gonflé) inside the building. You could also go inside it, where you were surrounded (entouré) by red colour with strange dimensions.
The Monumenta exhibitions are always surprising, the space is so large, the exhibition has to be special to fill it.

Thursday, December 23 2010

PARIS EXHIBITION

Oh dear!
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This is a palm tree made from old car tyres (des pneus) by DOUGLAS WHITE!

<Digimax i6 PMP, Samsung #11 PMP> and these are plaster casts of everyday packageing covering the floor of a small room by LUCIE CHAUMONT!
I photographed them in an exhibition in Paris called Rehab in the Espace Fondation EDF (élécricité de France). The theme of the exhibition is "the use of recycled materials in contempory artistic creations".
Sorry? You said "artistic"? The artists desire is not to moralise but to (engager une réflexion moralisatrice) but to remain distant from the subject of poetry, humour and enchantment. Well, you can say they have succeeded!
I was shocked! EDF acts as patron of the arts (mécène). I honestly think they would be better lowering (baisser) ordinary people's electricity bills (facture) than using the public's money to encourage "art" like this!

I prefer this one by Lucie Chaumont found on the net, called "les catastrophes sont naturelles". It's 140cms high, made of corrugated cardboard (du carton ondulé)
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These were not the "worst". I wasn't supposed to take photos, but managed to take these two. perhaps the most ridiculous was the work of MARIO D'SOUZA made of blocks of foam (de la mousse) pushed into metal school chairs. I couldn't believe my eyes. You can see them on the site.

The "best", or the one I preferred was made with intricately carved cardboard (du carton sculpté) by EVA JOSPIN It was 2m X 2m, quite big, and represented a lot of work.

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Tuesday, May 4 2010

COLOURS

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Where did I go today to see a wall like this? No, not Paris, in Charente Maritime.
It's one of the front walls of my local Leclerc supermarket! I went to print some photos in the automatic machine.
And also to get my tickets for an exhibition in Paris, CRIMES ET CHATIMENTS at the Orsay museum, that I bought on the Internet. It wasn't possible to print them at home, Click on the link and you can hear what Robert Badinter says about the exhibition. He explains that the Bible says the first man born on earth was Caïn who was an assassin. You can also see the guillotine that was last used in 1972!
I'm going to the exhibition in May but I bought tickets so as not to wait in the queue - I don't like queueing and in Paris it's a waste of time(une perte de temps).