Museums – yesiwood.be

Underseas

Jo — Mon, 08 Jun 2015 07:08:29 +0000

It was a lousy day. The Blue Mountains, a spectacular landscape on our Australian trip, were that day spectacularly grey. Fog, worhty of Good Old England, but Down Under and Overseas. In the midst of that misery, we found a Consolation Prize.

The Lost Bear Gallery in Katoomba, with a collection of artists worhty of any decent real-world city. Superb. Including such artists as watercolour genius Herman Pekel, and landscape painter Warwick Fuller. For the foreseeable future, our visits will be vitual, but that will not lessen the pleasure.

Musée Toulouse-Lautrec, Albi (France)

Jo — Thu, 27 Feb 2014 14:02:48 +0000

When we first visited ten years ago the museum that houses the largest collection of Henri Toulouse-Lautrec’s paintings in the world, we thought “great, but what a pity that these works are shown in such a depressed and neglected environment”.

Since 2013, Cinderella has joined the ballroom of the great museums of the world. Superb. Must see. Don’t miss the room with his contemporaries, some really nice stuff.

Thaddeus Ropac Pantin (Paris)

Jo — Tue, 25 Feb 2014 15:04:20 +0000

Not a museum, but a gallery of modern art in Paris old-industrial suburb Pantin, with incredible exhibitions. Gerhard Richter or Anselm Kiefer to name but two.

And if I ever would build a workshop in Paradise, this would be my model.

Pas un musée, mais une galerie d’art moderne à Paris banlieue ancien industriel Pantin, avec des expositions incroyables. Gerhard Richter ou Anselm Kiefer pour n’en nommer que deux. Et si je construisais un jour un nouvel atelier au paradis, ce serait mon modèle.

Geen museum, maar een galerie voor moderne kunst in de oud-industriële Parijse voorstad Pantin, met ongelooflijke tentoonstellingen. Bijvoorbeeld Gerhard Richter of Anselm Kiefer, om er maar twee te noemen. En als ik ooit zou een werkplaats te bouwen in het paradijs, zou dit mijn model zijn.

Metropolitan New York

Jo — Thu, 13 Feb 2014 14:23:06 +0000

One of the few things that have really stunned me was the Gubbio Studiolo room in the Metropolitan Museum in New York. Every time I visited New York, I felt obliged to have another look. It never tired.Just incredible.

I will not repeat many pictures here, look at the museum website for more details. Its walls are carried out in a wood-inlay technique known as intarsia. The latticework doors of the cabinets, shown open or partly closed, indicate the contemporary interest in linear perspective. The cabinets display objects reflecting a wide range of artistic and scientific interests. This room was executed by Giuliano da Majano (1432–1490).

If you zoom in on the picture below, you can even read the text in the book…