Les Aventures de la Vérité (Part II)

As I've promised, let me tell you about this adventure that BHL (Bernard-Henri Levy), extremely famous French philosopher, wrapped up this Friday with the opening of the exhibition at St. Paul de Vence.

To understand properly, we must go back in time 40 years and meet André Malraux, minister of Culture of the time. In that same place (the Fondation Maeght), he wanted to coordinate an art exhibition with masterpieces from all over the world, where the painting would "converse" between them... That's how the Musée Imaginaire de Malraux was born.

Many decades later, BHL, following a unique philosophical link, made of different sequences (La Fatalité des Ombres, La Voie Royale, Le Tombeau de la Filosophie, etc.), gathered, in a two-year work, 130 masterpieces. Of course, you can imagine his many difficulties: asking the Museums and private collectors to lend the paintings, taking insurances, etc.

But he made it. And also published a book-diary of those two years of work, which is also the catalog of the exhibition, with BHL's commentaries on every work of art.

I walked the exhibition twice, because I could not exhaust myself of filling my eyes with such incredible art.

I loved most of them, I might say an 80% of the works.

Of course, Basquat, Bronzino, Anselm Kiefer, Frank Stella, Yves Klein... The shocking composition of Dines and Jake Chapman, which were breathtaking. The Picabia (two)... Contemporary Art, Modern Art, Art from the 16th, 17th, 18th Centuries... Art, at last.

The exhibit will be open till November 11th.

Simply marvellous.