As soon as I finished French class I headed straight to the train station to catch an RER surburban train to Versailles to view renowned Japanese artist, Haruki Murakami’s, new sculpture exhibition within the palace. During the last few years the Palace has, rather controversially, held avant-garde modern art exhibitions during the winter months. Some of the famous ones has been Jeff Koons and his metallic balloon dogs. I was fascinated and considering I get into the palace for free off I hopped.
I was in luck alright. During my half hour train ride the heavens opened and again I watched as Paris become covered with a thick blanket off snow. Now I could really say I’ve seen Versailles in every season, under rain, during my first visit, hai/snow, this time and shine, during the hot summer months when I paid a visit to Marie Antoinette’s hamlet.
The Japenese anime character were scattered through the rooms. Interestingly I wouldn’t particularly like the sculptures alone if they were placed in a normal gallery setting, yet somehow with the Versailles renaissance wall murals and golden chandeliers as backdrops, they become absolutely fascinating, a quirky, yet genius mix. Of course it is conversial, it is definitely not everybody’s cup of tea, but everyone must admit it must have taken some guts to cook up an extremely unusual mix like that. Fortunately though, it is not permanent…
My camera unfortunately become malnourished and died on me part way through so I have borrowed some photos from friends and even one from google.
Check out that carpet!
