Thursday 26 March 2020

Yves Klein's "Corde Bleu"

The Bloggist and his friend, Alred Jarry, while walking through the fields near Fordingbridge came across this Readymade by Yves Klein. Originally intended for his exhibition, “Proposte Monocrome, Epoca Blu”, this piece was deemed too big for the Gallery Apollinaire. For many years “Corde Bleu” was in a private collection but in 2018, to memorialise the poisoning of Dawn Stugess by KGB Agents during their attack on the Skripals, it was erected on the banks of the River Avon.

Friday 6 March 2020

The Bloggist Exhibits

The Bloggist exhibits at a local gallery but is confused as to why his picture isn't hanging on the wall and where did the zebra came from? Apparently they are Equids, that is, members of the horse family. Is this a variant of LautrĂ©amont's "chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on an operating table"? Is this what Steve McCaffery means when he writes, “By inducing a temporary conjunction of opposites, the syzygy introduces a complexity of kinetics and temporality into the assemblage of the impossibles”? This is a conundrum for Buil de Onplezierig, academic and sciolist.