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13Jul 2019 by kike_K No Comments

Rory McEwen

Illustration

I have so many reasons to visit a museum, any museum indeed but inevitably all visits end in the bookstore. I am so an unapologetic seeker of rarity, fond of very simple books or catalogues (not really expensive but wonderfully illustrated) that have sometimes showed me the works of unexpected and unknown artists. Among so many great books devoted to Pollock or Warhol it is feasible to find real gems. This happened to me one time in the astonishing bookshop of the Centro Nacional de Arte Reina Sofia. I found a small book about the British artist Rory McEwen (1932-1982); this is a catalogue published by the Royal Botanic Garden of Edinburgh on the occasion of the exhibition of the works by McEwen that took place in 1988. I found…

Roy Cross

Aviation, Illustration, scale replicas

I remember it well, I was eleven, twelve years old and sometimes I had enough money to buy small scale models Airfix Series 1 (in modelling shops or in the toys sections of big department stores). I knew nothing about Tiger Moth biplane but I could pick it if the illustration was the one that caught my eye. These were very simple kits which could be easily assembled during the afternoon and next these were turned into a toy, but quite a different toy because of they were super-detailed and because I had made them all by myself. A few pieces got inevitably lost, sometimes these toys were forgotten as I had bought new ones but as their much pretty boxes seemed timeless, I stored them carefully. Much later,…

Paris “Malgré tout”

Painting

This great exhibition is a tour of the last years in Paris, the centre of the avant-garde, a city emptied of artists after the German occupation but, from 1944 (when the town is freed) until May 1968 of this town enjoying a creative period with so many artists and scholars travelling to Paris attracted by some cultural effervescence and a sort of freedom. Nevertheless, there is also a sense of disenchantment as these were also the years of the Cold War, a period when thousands of immigrants and political refugees got to Paris. On the other hand, the world of the Art became little by little the Market of the Art. Too many theories related to Art so everything seemed to become complex and way too conceptual: “The Art had…

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