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The Music you could hear during the exhibition : Stabat Mater – Pergolesi / Emma Kirby & James Bowman / Academy of Ancient Music – Christopher Hogwood
…A set of paintings, side by side, or face to face. Having talks as neighbours would. Romances combining themselves and tangling up, until they create their own ambiences, their own fragrances. It is a cohabitation, from the time of the installation, up to the last visitors leaving. But an exhibition is nothing if not a very special, and a very particuliar set !
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There are so many lessons to be drawn then, for the one who is able to observe that kind of character, quietly sitting at the litlle desk and making them believe that for the moment he is not at all interested in them, as long as he is reading some very ancient and fascinating poetry ! I did so, for two weeks, like the lizard in love, (René Char -”Les Matinaux”) :“…The echo from this land sounds true. I watch, I am a good prophet, from my ledge I can see all, even the twittering owl…“
And of course, so many exchanges with you, visitors from many countries, unrehearsed ones that could be either light, or thoughtful as well, but always fulfilling.
…A lady from Italy recognizes with emotion the “sotto voce” echo of Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater wandering about, all through the room… In the meanwhile, a father asks to his son which painting he prefers and I can hear the boy answering :”No one ! I hate them all !” …Another day, you were there, the hole family, close to the fresco called “Blue as an Orange”, looking for some hidden characters that could be found in this abstact landscape. Children can be the best, with this kind of game. I joined in ! A horse, with a turban on his head, a bird, a cat with a wide opened mouth, any kind of figures, freaky ones, magic ones…
Another time, a lady rushes in and walks through the room in a hurry to view, and without the slightest Hello to me, outwardly reading the “Divina Commedia”; As I try to grab her eye, she comes closer and she says, as if she wanted to make it clear to a child who would waste her time : “What does matter here, is to look up to the paintings, not to the painter ! Don’t you think?”
Quite a compliment for the aforesaid painter who is just trying, in his own way, to put his ego aside for a while, his purpose and his goals, in order to give way to those precious links that are being weaved between him and his “art works”, and most of all, between them and the audience they have been able to draw to themselves !
And some of you… looking back once again, before reaching the door, for a smile, aimed at me, and also for etching in your memory the image of the panoramic fresco, whose message was coming along with you : The earth is Blue as an Orange..!
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The story goes on… Some new plans to come out, still with fresco painting works… but before going back to my trowels and to my brushes, I would like to thank all those who took the time to climb up the steps of the castle, in Gordes, for a visit. And more particularly, the person who said to me just before leaving : “I have been travelling all through this visit. It was a real wonderful trip !”
Exhibition fom the 16th to the 29th of July 2011, “Salle des Editions du Chateau”, Gordes, Provence © Hazló – 2011