Guy Bourdin at Le Bon Marche

      Good looking, talented, straight photographer with a great taste. Almost a dream. Started and ended his life in Paris. At 27 his fashion photographs were published in the French Vogue. Pas mal, ha?

      You can always recognize his works for his very own colors and oversexy spirit. Me and Masha mutually decided that he was using  special color-enhancing filters. Guy mixed glamour with violence, surrealism with fashion, sexuality with death.... 

      The exhibition is organized professionally by a curator with a refined taste – Shelly Verthime – gonna follow her work from now on. I didn’t wanna leave the space. I felt like I was walking in the made up beautiful dream. But it was real – films created by his complicated vision and provocative mind. Packed in the expensive box with the dimmed lighting.

      Guy Bourdin’s famous last wish was that all his work be destroyed upon his death. They just could not destroy the beautiful dream brought to reality.

      Find his never-seen-before films from the 1960’s to the 1980’s at Le Bon Marche till the 31^st of October.

I see myself. David Lynch in Galeries Lafayette

Каменный грот со светящимися звездами - отличный мост между хаосом торгового центра и отражением болезненного сознания. Все пространство здесь пропитано сильнейшей, хотя и нездоровой энергетикой: насекомые, поедающие женщин, пламя, одиночество, суицид, кошмары.... Иногда кажется, что эти оттиски - его фильмы, нажатые на паузу.

Хотя, если смотреть с другой стороны, для человека, начавшего свою карьеру с фильмов "Eraser-head" и "Elephant-man", работы, в общем-то, вполне ожидаемые.

Еще на выставке можно посмотреть ранние короткометражки Линча. Нам не повезло. на 3-ем фильме, как раз в момент, когда на солнечном американском небе ковбой и заблудившийся француз в берете и с багетом видят 3-х гигантских поющих девушек, включили свет и показ оборвался - Lafayette закончила работу.

Но одно из главных достижений магазина - витрины, оформленные Линчем. Разумеется, ни о каких платьицах нет и речи: поезда, ходящие сквозь головы, сюрреалистические кухни, инсценировки кошмаров маленьких детей....

Вобщем, до 3 октября, шоппинг - не главная цель посещения Galeries Lafayette.

Stone cave with gleaming stars curved in it - the great bridge between the chaos of the trade center and the reflection of one's sick mind. All the space is covered with very strong though real unhealthy energy: insects, biting women; flames; loneliness; suicides; nightmares... Sometimes it feels like these lithographs are his movies put on pause.

On the other hand, for the man that started his career with the movies like "Eraser-head" and "Elephant-man", these works are actually kind of obvious.

Also at the exhibition you can see Lynch' early short-movies. We weren't lucky and on the 3-d movie right at the moment when against the sunny American sky tough cowboy and lost Frenchman wearing beret and carrying a baguette out of blue all of a sudden saw 3 singing women, they turned on the lights and the screening was finished - Lafayette was closing.

But one of the main achievements of the shop center are the windows, created by David Lynch. Of course nobody is speaking about dresses and bags, but trains running through heads, surreal kitchens, scenes from the little children's' horrors...

Anyway, till the 3d of October, shopping is not the main purpose to go to Galleries Lafayette.

Love,
M&K