Adria, Aizpitarte, Alleno, Bras, Grebaut, Humm, Passard, Patterson and Redzepi - some crowd of chefs eh? And at the Palais des Beaux Arts yet. It's supposed to show the relationship between modern cuisine and art and as any such show, some things work better than others.
The highlight for me was a video of Bertrand Grebaut (Septime) torching a veal heart on the rail of the Metro. (Colette also liked Passard's art work)
1 WOW! Until the 9th of January.
I agree with you about the Grébaut video. I am however more critical of the rest... contemporary art at its lamest (playful, concemptual...), and a huge gap in my opinion between the art and the cuisine...
The only piece of art I found really captured something that could be described as "gastronomic art" was Rene Redzepi's piece... the rest was merely scratching the surface.
If I wasn't afraid to pass as an opportunist, I would direct you to my blog's article about the exhibition (although it is in French)... But I'm too afraid...
Posted by: T. Tilash | January 03, 2014 at 11:57 PM
I thought I was hedging my bets by saying "It's supposed to show the relationship between modern cuisine and art" but maybe that was too gentle.
In any case I went to your blog and couldn't find it so you'll have to send me the link. Yhanks.
Posted by: John Talbott | January 04, 2014 at 09:45 AM
For me that was definitely too gentle... but I tend to be very critical of contemporary art, so I'm kind of biased.
Here is the link you asked : http://www.chezfood.com/2013/12/16/cookbook-art-et-gastronomie/
For some reason the comment system on your blog doesn't allow me to post my website as a link to my name, I had to log with Google+ which automatically created a Typepad page, and now that's the page my name links too...
Posted by: T. Tilash | January 04, 2014 at 11:14 AM