Christian Boltanski

See some Christian Boltanski’s pictures in Monumenta 2010. I liked this odd exhibition but like always… so far, so close. January 1st, 2010, my soon to be family in law had breakfast with Christian Boltanski and Annette Messager. These are artists that I will love to meet … but no luck. I’ll tell you the story. My future parents in law run a beautiful bed & breakfast (La Maison du Cordon) in a small town in Burgundy (Aignay-le-Duc) where a very important french artist lives (Bertand Lavier) … so far this reads like an art fairy tale and you will tell me it is not possible… but yes, they came to spend new year’s eve with Lavier and so they slept in my parents in law’s B&B. I think next New Year’s eve I will spend it in Burgundy … just in case.

Pecha Kucha

Yesterday I went to see my upstairs neighbor Designers Interactifs‘ project called Pecha Kucha… their fourth Paris installment about design and art , 20 artists, 20 images, 20 second per image… cool concept, cool artists. My favorites were Vadim Bernard, Area 17, SL Co, Nathalie Brevet & Hughes Rochette, Jocelyn Cottencin, Arrache-toi un oeil, Fanette Mellier, typo.gras.free.fr/, La Bonne Merveille.

Where is Cuba?

Cuba

Recently I had an adventure in India for a month… everyone wanted our money one way or another… there was no space for meeting people and having friendships, other than meeting people with the prospect of us paying something… that is a bit familiar to my 10 years in Miami… so that was not shocking… what was surprising was that no one person knows where Cuba is… or what a cuban cigar is or Cuban rum… and even less Cuban music… so voila… I always thought my country was known accross the world for its contributions to this planet but not… Not many people know where Cuba is in India… you also need to know that many people in India know barely how to read… so it is understandable but curios anyways that Cuba does not exist in this country…