Paris’s annual art fair–the FIAC (Foire Internationale d’Art Contemporain / International Contemporary Art Fair) is this weekend, and it includes this Stonehenge Bouncy Castle (“Sacrilege, 2012″ by Jeremy Deller) that I chanced upon in front of Les Invalides.
“Sacrilege, 2012″ by Jeremy Deller at Les Invalides (Paris) for FIAC
“Sacrilege, 2012″ by Jeremy Deller at Les Invalides (Paris) for FIAC
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An ART FAIR in PARIS – and I´m not there!!!!! QUEL DOMMAGE!!! I would love to go the Grand Palais and also see the art hors le murs!!! Oh why can´t I just take the next plane?
Lol,
It’s definitely the big weekend for this kind of art thing. I was just lucky to pass this on my way to meeting friends…
See you in the streets,
Paris Paul
Very cool. FIAC is always so interesting (and kinda crazy)! I love that second one where the effect you use has the glow and arc with the chapel centered like that. Also, how interesting that the artist put together an ancient pagan neolithic “bouncy castle” (lmao) in contrast with the chapel at Les Invalides. Clever that, and an interesting commentary! Ohhh, FIAC. Can always count on something wacky with that, eh?
Are you going to check it out at the Tulieries, also? I know that is where they usually have other interesting stuff, too.
xx
Karin
Yeah, I don’t think I’ll be making it to the Tuileries… Long way away and I’ve got a lot of irons in the fire. And the weather sucks, lol.
See you in the streets,
Paris Paul
Mmm, good point about the weather — the Tuilieries is just plain muddy and disgusting in the rain.
As for “irons in the fire” — I always pictured that idiom as those old-fashioned irons that women (and for the progressive men of the 18th Century <— oxymoron?) used to heat up on the cookstove to iron clothing. The old-style kind of irons, right? But reading that there, I realized, "Hey, I bet that was about blacksmithing!" It is, haha. But somehow I like picturing you with a bunch of old-school iron irons frantically ironing bunches of shirts. Extreme ironing, lol.
And as for a long way away — dude, I have to go further just to go to the grocery store these days!! It's all relative. Not so far in the scheme of things, I have to say, and you have cheap and safe public transportation (no risk of being rear-ended by stupid people. I have really keenly felt since being back and driving again that each time I do so, I am taking my life into my hands!). I hear you on the weather, for sure, and I know days are darkening early now. But it is just down a ways from where you work, eh? Could be on the way home! Maybe if the weather gets nicer, you could make a quick stop. (Okay, okay, I also know there is no such thing as a "quick stop," in Paris, lol.)
Anyway, I am sure you will continue to find equally interesting things on your journeys to and fro each day.
xx
K
Hi babe!
In fact I did some not-so extreme ironing just a few mintues ago, while watching “Cedar Rapids” and glad I didn’t see that in the theater.
As for the interesting things going on, I shall keep you “posted”.
See you in the streets,
Paris Paul