Back Again after moving - "Kandinski Fall-out" from Paris
By Hans-Josef Jeanrond on Sunday 28 June 2009, 11:05 - Paris - Permalink
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Moved again - and survived!
Déménagé encore une fois - et survécu !
Wieder umgezogen - und überlebt!
Even if you are "just" moving within a village, it's a gruelling experience.
And it is an interminable one: You don't hire a professional removal company,
since you only have to transport things over a mile, and in our case, you have
nearly 2 months to do it. (redecoration of two houses included).
This blog is not about the hassles of moving, the trouble of finding space for
things that have lived in your garages and cellars for many years - in a house
that does not have either; about the incompetence of telecoms companies and
Internet access providers, about the surprises of electric and water-pipes
installations, etc., otherwise this entry might be 100 pages long.
Let us just state that the exercise kept me from writing this blog, and from
photography in general.
Well not completely, as these images may prove.
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There will be no photographs "out of my window" this time, since they would
have to show our - private - garden rather than vineyards and other parts of
the Provence landscape. Since despite moving, I had to be in Paris on a number
of occasions; I was able to visit the monumental Kandinski
exhibition in the Centre Pompidou / Beaubourg. It is still on until 10
August, and it is a must for everyone passing through Paris this summer.
(Click here for more information)
The photographs are “fall-out”, so to speak, of our visit to the Kandinski
exhibition.
The one above is an “inside-out” photograph, muted by the net curtains of
the museum. Beaubourg is an intriguing place since its large glass panels
invite the city into the museum, something that is avoided in most exhibition
places in order to shield the exhibits from the destructive effect of (UV)
light, and, I suppose, to keep the viewers concentrated. I rather like the idea
of openness, unless, of course, I see the reflection of the city in the glass
of frame rather than the framed art work.
Hopefully "the museum and the city" will be the topic of another series of
photographs. It will be inspired by M.C. Escher's work (see
here)
When we went to see the exhibition, the weather was fine and people were
having lunch outside in the restaurant on the top of Beaubourg. A pool of
water, not quite evenly covering the surface next to the diners, helped to
produce these images of "Dry Clouds".
(Click on the images to enlarge)
Earlier on, I had to be back to la Défense, where the CNIT is undergoing a
major renovation, and where I discovered this “Iron Butterfly”. Contrary to
most of my Défense images, it is a “straight” photograph, not a
reflection.
Let us hope that I will get around to more photography and more postings now
the moving is behind us and only the “normal” maintenance work around the house
drawing on available energies.