Le grand tasting...(5/12)

List of tasting...




BOURGOGNE
Louis Jadot, Ladoix, blanc, 2007
Louis Jadot, Les Perrières, Pouilly-Fuissé, blanc, 2007
Louis Jadot, Clos de la Garenne, Puligny-Montrachet, blanc, 2004
Domaine Faiveley, Aux Chaignots, Nuits-St-Georges 1er Cru, rouge, 2007
Domaine Faiveley, Les Cazetiers, Gevrey-Chambertin 1er Cru, rouge, 2007
Domaine Faiveley, Grand Cru, Latricières-Chambertin, rouge, 2007
BORDEAUX
Château Destieux, Saint-Emilion Grand Cru Classé, rouge, 2006
Château Destieux, Saint-Emilion Grand Cru Classé, rouge, 2004
La Clémence, Pomerol, rouge, 2006
La Clémence, Pomerol, rouge, 2004
Montlisse, Saint-Emilion Grand Cru, rouge, 2003
Château Phélan-Ségur, Saint-Estèphe, rouge, 2007
Château Phélan-Ségur, Saint-Estèphe, rouge, 2004
Château Rauzan-Ségla, Ségla, Margaux, second wine, 2005
Château Rauzan-Ségla, Margaux, rouge, 2004
Château Rauzan-Ségla, Margaux, rouge, 2003
Clos Canon, Saint-Emilion Grand Cru, rouge, 2005
Château Canon, Saint-Emilion, 1er Grand Cru, rouge, 2004
Château Canon, Saint-Emilion, 1er Grand Cru, rouge, 2002
Château La Louvière, Pessac-Léognan, rouge, 2003
Château Dauzac, Margaux, rouge, 2004
La Bastide Dauzac, Margaux, rouge, 2006
Château de Barbe-Blanche, Lussac Saint-Emilion, rouge, 2005
Tour de Ségur, Lussac Saint-Emilion, rouge, 2005
Château Couhins Lurton, Pessac Leognan, rouge, 2005

Imagine if there was also Lascombe, Boyd-Cantenac, Kirwan, D'Issan, Branaire-Ducru, Cantemerle, Carbonnieux, La Tour Figeac, Beychevelle, Lagrange, Langoa et Leoville Barton, Poujeaux, Talbot, Seguin, Smith Haut Lafitte, Rothchild, Gosset, Moet, Jacquesson, Louis Roederer, Piper, Pol Roger, Tattinger...

Feed the House...(24/4)

At the exhibition for houseware products, variety determines the specialty of suppliers' profile and categories of exhibits. Whenever applicable to the House, technically it can be defined as appliance or tool where we categorise as houseware. When buyers attend the exhibition, their eyes are on everything that can be purchased and installed for the houses, if not necessarily viewed as the home. Counting the number of lights that never go out from the facade, the city cubicle actually defines the scope of house, home or possession. Capitalism is sometimes a matter of reckoning. The exhibition features the supply of pets' utility, and because of it, I am able to recognise the feeding supply for pets of all kinds like horses. This recalls me about the horse breeding auction activity in France. The business world has no impossibility.

Heroes Smith...(4/4)

It is the exhibition of brouillons of Patti Smith, since her creativity shone in the 70's...La Foundation Cartier does not change a lot physically, as it is always the open-garden like cubicle with the warm sunlight penetrating into the media of human distance. I was in the passing-by of Patti Smith's work. Her notes on Rimbaud, her video of experimentalism in the 70's, the body language, and the meaning of human corpse in the setting of substance. She demonstrated in her early writing the vivid energy of rock'n'roll. The exhibition also showcased some photo and video work of Robert Mapplethorpe. Patti Smith worked on a few installations to play tribute of his death in 1989. The 4-wall room of chalking world of creativity is an admirable set up of the exhibition. The wordings reflected in the stenographic atmosphere of never-ending video projection. Some visitors simply mimed, a silent spoken beauty.
Patti Smith played Smell Like Teen Spirit in a filmed occasion. Her voice reminded me of Nico. Drawing out the memory is also the day of death of Kurt Cobain. It was 14 years ago...time flies. In the tranquil evening, my room is filled in the moody performance of Patti Smith's Hero live in the Meltdown Festival...time stays still, the Parisien Belle Epoque.

Les Salons Privés...(4/3)

The private area of glamour found its path to be stretched to the far front. Fancy, oval, drop by drop, this is a microscopic view of the long voyage de pierres...
http://www.zirhc.com/lsp08.pdf

L'amour de beaute...(4/12)

Hong Kong is not that bad in a sense, as it is just only not the best in the world. Following the stage at Place Vendome in 2004 to tribute the 200th anniversary of love to the beautified conquer land of Napoleon, the exhibition 'Napoleon in Love' took place in Chaumet Hong Kong at present...
Not be it a small scale exhibition that has discounted the value to watch such display featuring at the Chaumet flagship shop in Central area, but the seriousness and the rarity of exhibiting items that differentiate the exhibition from other similar displays. Chaumet has long been well-known as THE jewellery house for the kings and the nobles, and the collection of the centuries' antique pieces reveals a classic development of jewellery fashion in the previous centuries. As a shadowplay of the history of modernisation, these antique jewellery pieces remark one of the most retro-full sources of nostalgic sentiment us the people long for. The bits and pieces of the exhibits of the mini show lead me to another Paris Calling. La belle epoque!

Crawling...(18/8)

Done!

Rendez-vous avec Lynch et doghead...(18/4)

The drawing world of David Lynch...

Zizous @ SIHH...(17/4)

Far away, so close. This was the walking at a glance...

Zaver...(15/1)

The current exhibition at muzeum hlavniho mesta Prahy gathers the belief of the research findings of the ritual and burial system in ancient times in Czech. It is a small scale yet serious exhibition...though appropriately set its light at an exhibiting place focusing on anthological and historical ground of the 'Czech' people (or better say the tribes of ancient people dwelling in the area now defined as Czech), the finding of the presentation is not comprehensive enough. There lacks an authoritative commentary and it is not convincing for its presumption and 'generalisation' for a visitor like me. It is definitely difficult to draw any conclusion about how ancient people looked at death and handled death. The current evidence from excavation is not conclusive for us to understand the topic. As cited in the exhibition, Burial remaining of the different stages of the Stone Age were found in various regions of the country and based on the manner of the burial arrangement revealed, there is a similarity that researchers agree on such as the direction of placement of dead bodies as well as the gesture and position the bodies were aligned. The exhibition believes that people at old times were more open to death, or perhaps it was that death would be a more common thing happened within the tribes. From time to time, the dead bodies were either buried or incremented. Other means of disposal may be difficult to reveal at our times. The significance of corpse direction the researchers look at may be relevant in relation to the importance of nature in the past. People might believe in their gods and goddesses, and the direction could be an interpreted expectation of an unknown world that they symbolised in their knowledge world. People are always evolving in a wish about the unexplainable. The display was good and it ended with a query of the way we should look at this unknown world. Death is as unknown as life.
When looking at the description of the stone ages finding, my mind was like wandering at the primitive world of the 2001 space odyssey...

Working life...(25/10)

Is my work interesting? It is something imaginative, promotional, always positive, always about people, place, meeting place, a confluence of information and dissemination, an art about understanding and imagination again. This should be the nature of the work, but execution is always something very fatigue and varied...I am working at an enormous alimentation trade fair this week, and in a day, I met people of different kinds...the manager of the top farmhouse of live poultry in France who looks for export in Asia, a wholesaler from Oslo searching sources of fresh vegetable from China and Hong Kong, a German specialising in sterilisation of food processing. Some traders from Chile look for information of Hong Kong in Paris...the specialist of mushroom examines the blossoming of mushrooms, another one work on peanuts. I learn about the origin of the Chinese chestnut from Zhenghua, which poses a different life form of the chataignier on Champs Elysees. Farming industry, a collage of alimentation and science - human innocence - it is a reflective recognition of mankind and culture. The trains were jammed with visitors and businessmen, a cozy environment to practise intimacy. Adaptation, exchange - it was the intangible mobile network of networking. Met an Italian from Naples, we talked about Pompeii. There was a strolling flash back of time and age. Life is to gather people into the showcase for their own show. A beloved one composes of pieces, before the scattered edges fade and decompose. Light a magnifying glass with lilac flame, we see the inside of the whole.

I went to Rungis early in the morning. It is another world that co-exists with dreams and midnight tales. This world inverts the handles on the clock in time, a midnight business, and simply framed with its scale, it exists and it subsists with its unlimited boundary. It forms a 12,000-employed micro-economy. All related, and all interacted, simply like a hair salon that serves the owl population. The food Rungis handled composes of 70% of total products in France, a feeding for 80 millions people. Divided into numerous pavilions, the fresh market demonstrates a modern logistic system in orders and procedures. Sometimes, we live somewhere too far away from the reality. That is the reason why we can still sense the distance, hopefully. I like a lot the greenhouse cafe located at the centre of the poultry pavilion. It is the grand place of the workers, and it is a live showroom of happy hours. Six is not only late but too late, and a day could only commence by this collective combination of resonance in the dawn prelude. Workers wear in white, and this is just an identity of being into it. This is a circle of a self-centred geometric scope. Love it or not.

I have my day and my weeks in examining.

Nuit Blanche...(7/10)

It was a nuit blanche in colours and imagination. Not having planned for the routing of the night, it was just like a collage of people and space in confined hours...much of it reminds me the sensation of walking in a flower fair or a post-celebration carnival in density.

Visited Hôtel de Ville with the darkened gospel of new age by Sébastien Tellier and Xavier Veilhan. The blackened balloon-like spheres over the edge reflected a dimmed image of the age after dusk. They were masking shields to the scoped world next door.
Passed by a church in Marais, and there was a cool installation made with resins calling an awareness of AIDS. It was exactly like the pieces by H.R. Giger, a shell for a shelter perhaps. Nonetheless, the stunned atmosphere would be the installations inside Eglise Saint-Merry. At the other end of the city, the karaoke choral lasted over midnight at jardin de Bercy...happy songs for happy people. It was a night with self-search and contemplation in minimal frames of to-be. It was also a movement for me to enter Centre Pompidou for its Movement of Images - marching legs and flipping eyes. Lighting design and effect dominated the night.
More info at http://www.nb2006.paris.fr.

Five billion years...(5/10)

At the moment, Palais de Tokyo presents its five billion years project with interesting picks of contemporary artworks. It would be a one-year project and along the year to come, there would be moments when the 'isolated' time and space bring up reaction to possibilities...the use of the term 'parasites' for installation pieces is superbly true. The works give a life to the museum, and the museum hosts a continuation of recognition among arts, human and distance. There are parasitic entities existed in every domain of time flow and development, and I am definitely one of those in my life. Some installations are actually quite inspiring and interesting. One section of this five billion years displays imitated constellation photos of the eve of bombardment. Named the day before, it drew my opportunistic attention on my focused shadowplay on the dark side of the photos/drawings. It appeared to be a chasing night of hunters and preys before the attack of the next day.
Playing with running time, some works like twistle (2003) and glassworks (2006) were examining the collusion of seconds and senses. If you face it, you feel it. Flying tape (2006) by Zilvinas Kempinas is a floating tape of memory and record, and under the current, visitors experience a deviated pattern of the recording medium.

Message d'Andrée (2005) is my favorite of the collection. Joachim Koester captured the romantic-pathetic aspects of 'voyage polaire' - the exposure of lights and chance adventure initiated by the Swedish adventurer Salomon August Andrée. The story has been a glorified history of 'people vs nature' in the late 19th century, and during the race of adventurism in the era, Andrée got his support and funding from the movement of nationalism in Sweden, and he successfully launched out the plan to pass through the ice-land to the other side of the continent, but not the plan itself. This was a plot of human ambition perhaps. Something we may see unrealistic can be a golden rule in the past. In all cases, history repeats. Remastering the defect photos left by Salomon August Andrée, Nils Strindberg and Knut Frænkel who lost their lives in 1897 during the attempt to fly over North Pole with their Örnen - a hydrogen balloon manufactured in the workshop of Henri Lachambre in Paris, Koester developed a moving image of black dots and bright lights with noise. This is the beauty of abstraction.

Soleil d'Alger...(16/3)

My stay in Algiers has been limited in a sense that I did not manage to go visit a bit in the city centre...My very knowledge to the city is more like a national airport, an equipped Hilton Hotel and an exhibition centre with numerous halls or they called them Pavilions. Basically the centre is constructed and expanded for their Foire d'Algérie which is held annually in June, the most important trade event in Africa. A daily number of around 50,000 visitors would take part in the event, and exhibitors originate from nearly 40 countries. The impression to the city is pleasant for me. People I met here are friendly and frank. The state has undergone a reform with a more liberal approach to its economy and market. Privisation of state enterprises is in process and construction work for buildings and roadworks is in its action plan. Automotive industry seems to be promising here, and a strong buying force supports the rapid growth of car sales. Congestion is a problem in the city centre but when a family in Algiers can have as many as 3 to 4 cars, this is indeed not difficult to explain the situation. Many cars from China are imported into Algeria, and apparently there is a big market for the Chinese producers and spare parts suppliers. Cuisine in Algeria is typical to me as compared to other Maghreb food and ingredients. I tried the carvelle d'agneau and it tasted very good. Haha. People drink coffee, soft drink, fruit juices and menthe tea. Alcohol is limited to tourist spots due to religious rituels. Being a tourist, I was introduced an aperitif named Bodji, a kir-like drink which is sweet. By the way, people like sweet and that's why I found in general dishes and drinks with sweet suace. Sunshine is a great asset of Algiers and in this period of March, the weather is jut fantastic. Mild temperature and sunshine on sales. The sound of the wave from the sea just smashes all the mood to work away, not to mention the dancing palm trees. A very exotic impression is typical to a kind of come-and-go tourist like me this time.

Salon du Meuble a Paris...(9/1)

Salon du meuble a Paris (or the Paris Furniture Fair) has long been reputable as one of the most developed furniture fairs in the region. With about 700 exhibitors this year, the show took place during the last few days at the fairground at Porte de Versailles...Design comes first, and the metropole section of the show should have attracted me the most in the show. I always like the European interior design and decorative arts. The way this show organiser presented the exhibits in this section of the show was simple but magnificent. Colour-contrasted, atmospherically harmonised, funny annotated illustrations, magnifying use of the open space, uniqueness of furniture character etc...these are all the impression I got after the visit. The overall image of the Show may perhaps be less representative than Maisons et Objets, but certainly I did find my cells inspired after walking in-between the aisles covered with the red carpet.


As one of the focuses in this occasion, there was a pavilion of Nippon Design, and right, the 'Designed in Japan' is another magic display I need to admire. Clean and playful, and a central table displayed their innovative design and decoration from the brochettes of snack food to the artificial candle lights that can be put out by mouth, the mini-motorbike to the modern spiralling drawer...cool!