On a freezing cold morning I made my way out to the Bois de Boulogne and arrived way ahead all the crowds... lucky me! No queueing! Living in Paris you do become rather blasé about waiting in line, after all I am NOT a tourist, I live here!
The Louis Vuitton Fondation has done it again and this time they have gathered some unique art pieces, never showcased in France before, under the room of their magnificent foundation.
It’s not every day that the MoMA lends 200 works abroad all at once. Thanks to this exhibition I got to see some great pieces. Paintings, sculptures and digital art by Jasper Johns, Walker Evans, Magritte, Marcel Duchamp, Matisse, Picasso, Cézanne, Klimt, Edward Hopper, Frida Kahlo, Dalí, Man Ray, Lichtenstein, Mondrian, Rothko, Walt Disney, Jackson Pollock and Brancusi.
"Le MoMA à Paris" not only showcased works rarely seen in France, but also retraced the history of the famous New York museum through the works it bought along the way to becoming one of the most famous and important museums on the planet. And since many of those paintings have ties to Paris, and ended up in New York because patrons were following the waves of modern art emerging out of both cities, the exhibition feels, at various points, like a mirror being held up from the other side of the Atlantic.
My only regret? The terraces were closed due to ice and sleet, and although the views through the glass panels were magnificent they did not allow for great photography.
Sailboat, vessel, fish or cloud?
From an initial sketch drawn on a blank page in a notebook to the transparent cloud sitting at the edge of the Jardin d'Acclimatation in the Bois de Boulogne, Frank Gehry constantly sought to "design, in Paris, a magnificent vessel symbolising the cultural calling of France"
Sporting a glittering LV logo at the front door,
it could also be a gigantic Louis Vuitton perfume bottle.
For 90 years now, the MoMA gives itself over to contemporary fine arts by purchasing the best of world interdisciplinary production. This was its first catalogue.
In 1939, Goodwin, a member of The Museum of Modern Art's Board of Trustees and an architect practicing in the traditional Beaux-Arts style, teamed with Stone, an ardent modernist, to create a building appropriate to the Museum's mission.
With its exhibition “Being modern”, Fondation Louis Vuitton makes a big splash.
A splash of colour that caught my attention.
A detail of the original, dismantled UNESCO steel construction
that nowadays classifies as modern art!?!
Definitely modern art ... but still classic.
Campbell soup cans... a true classic!
Could this shot classify as modern art?
Geometrical lines everywhere you look.
Snow patch and yellow light beams... how about that for modern art?
Listening to the Forty Part Motet (2001) by Janet Cardiff 1957.
The collection, is comprised of 40 standing speakers, each one presenting a different singer from the Salisbury Cathedral Choir singing “Spem in Alium Nunquam habui” by English composer Thomas Tallis (1505–85).
A dense thicket of steel struts and wooden beams that have been forced into improbable shapes.
The terraces are designed to catch particular views – across to the towers of La Defense and Montparnasse, the Eiffel Tower and Montmartre... not today, unfortunately.
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