Jeff Koons has a really cool show at the Chateau de Versailles and I got to see it on my last weekend in Paris. The show itself was awesome. His art hanging in the gilded salons looked so brilliant and out of place - the contrast was mucho cool.
Now, the Chateau itself is kind of a waste of time. First of, the whole thing is really just kind of gaudy. And then, this being France, everything is extremely poorly organized. You wait in line for over an hour only to be told the Chateau closes early because of a private party which will shut off the entire thing (incidentally, the party was the official opening of the Koons show). The audioguides had the most inane commentary ever. In the Galerie des Glaces, it said something to the effect "there are 13 windows, 13 big mirrors; back in the day it was used as a main corridor for the Chateau". That's it. WTF? Nothing about the gilded panels, the sculptures, the painted ceiling, etc.
Oh well. If anything the show was cool just to hear people's reactions. "You call that art?!" and "They lost their minds!" were the mottos du jour.
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Now, the Chateau itself is kind of a waste of time. First of, the whole thing is really just kind of gaudy. And then, this being France, everything is extremely poorly organized. You wait in line for over an hour only to be told the Chateau closes early because of a private party which will shut off the entire thing (incidentally, the party was the official opening of the Koons show). The audioguides had the most inane commentary ever. In the Galerie des Glaces, it said something to the effect "there are 13 windows, 13 big mirrors; back in the day it was used as a main corridor for the Chateau". That's it. WTF? Nothing about the gilded panels, the sculptures, the painted ceiling, etc.
Oh well. If anything the show was cool just to hear people's reactions. "You call that art?!" and "They lost their minds!" were the mottos du jour.
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