The first Sunday of the month is free gallery/musee day. We thought we may get caught in crowds because we didn't get to Centre Pompidou until about 11 am, but no, Parisiens don't seem to appear until 1pm, so no queue, no crowd. Caught the enclosed, exterior escalator to the top and then stopped in at the 4th and 5th floor to wander the Musee National D'Art Moderne.
The highlight of our visit was the current exhibition of photographs by Miroslav Tichy (and much of this exhibition brought my favourite brother-in-law to mind!). This man is incredible. He is now about 80 years old and his photographic works only recently discovered. He took up photography in the mid-1950s, after a career as a painter, as part of his personal stand against Communist values in Czechoslovakia.
He builds his own cameras from shoe boxes, tin cans and other waste materials, develops his photos and then exposes his photos to natural elements by using them as beer coasters, subjecting them to rain, leaving them out for mice and dust. The end result he sometimes finds (and I guess, sometimes not) and he frames them on pieces of newspaper, or paper on which he might draw a frame. This is a man worth googling.
Walked to Galeries Lafayette which, we now know, is closed on Sunday, lunch at the Tuileries and then home.
2 comments:
What better way to spend a Sunday than at the Musee National D'Art Moderne. The 'photos are great,and I am pleased you are not using them as wine coasters before you post them. Am starting to save some shoe boxes for your brother-in-law! L& G
Hi Aunty Sally and Brent, Paris looks good to me, I wish Mum and Dad would take me, and Pearl could fit in our hand luggage. What are those big pipes in the photo?
Love from your favorite Niece, Ruby
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