The MAM is the Musée d'Art Moderne de la ville de Paris, and the MAM is awesome. Both the collection and the traveling exhibits were very cool.
There were lots of things I'd never seen or heard of before: An artist who makes images appear out of layer upon layer of gloppy, random-looking dollops of paint. An owl motif running through one exhibit. An installation that looked like a giant Popsicle-stick house made with rowing oars and bowling balls.
A dark room with a black box in which tiny pin holes light up like orbiting constellations. A whole section with works from a school called SMS (Shit Must Stop) that included, ironically, Paul Steiner's "Johns in Art Galeries," a series of index cards describing toilets that includes "small, but definitely has atmosphere. EAST HAMPTON"
In the basement there is a very strange video installation by Turkish artist Inci Eviner. Tiny images of dogs, playing cards, cancan-ing legs, belly dancers, buildings, fires, stacks of people, people wearing gray jogging suits and blue plastic dog-cones, doing repetitive actions play over and over to music made of the sounds of whistling, the cheering of a crowd, dogs barking, clapping, and a guitar playing.
Looking for a museum off the tourist-beaten path? Try this one.
Amusée par Art Moderne,
Maria
There were lots of things I'd never seen or heard of before: An artist who makes images appear out of layer upon layer of gloppy, random-looking dollops of paint. An owl motif running through one exhibit. An installation that looked like a giant Popsicle-stick house made with rowing oars and bowling balls.
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| Delphine Coindet, Cosmos |
Steiner, Johns in Art Galeries
(image taken from Washington University in St. Louis' Kemper Art Museum)
In the basement there is a very strange video installation by Turkish artist Inci Eviner. Tiny images of dogs, playing cards, cancan-ing legs, belly dancers, buildings, fires, stacks of people, people wearing gray jogging suits and blue plastic dog-cones, doing repetitive actions play over and over to music made of the sounds of whistling, the cheering of a crowd, dogs barking, clapping, and a guitar playing.
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| Inci Eviner, Broken Manifestos |
Amusée par Art Moderne,
Maria
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