Zurich and Amsterdam June 2018 -Day 2

Hi again,

The best responses about the Viola Frey were from Sharon: "it’s Trump. She is predicting the womanizing, and then he has the globe in his hand with his marbles rolling out. He is manipulating the world! Just as he is today at G 6+1 and now on to Singapore. She was a prophet!" and from someone else: "The Frey mural looks like a sketchbook page of some of her sculptures --the lady in print dress to the right, a bit like that sculpture of Rene di Rosa's. Can't you just imagine a Frey sculpture of a frumpy Trump? She would have so much fun with his animal hair. What was it that Stormy said of it during their coupling-- like a drunken cockatoo." Ha ha.

First thing this morning I was off to the Rietburg Museum to see the Monsters, Devils, and Demons exhibition. The museum is on the grounds of an old estate with part of the collection being in the main estate building and additional entrance through the green glass doors. Most of the galleries are underground and they are connected from one building to the other with these underground galleries. The grounds are beautiful and there is another small red brick building which is where I saw the Monsters show.

And now for the monsters, devils, and demons. Most of the best of them were Iranian and Indian with a few Japanese thrown in for interest from the 16th to the 20th century. Enjoy their devilishness. This first one was my favorite and I am showing you the full image and then details. It is all in the details. This depicts the slaying of the White Devil- already in the 1500s, the Iranians were trying to slay the White Devil and still, it goes on? Love the orange guy.

Here are a few more:

Ok enough of those. Now on to the African Bead show. These are from the 19th/ 20th century.

Now on to some extraordinary things in the permanent collection.

Now off to the Kunsthaus Zurich where we saw a fashion show... or not exactly a fashion show as more like an art (of all sorts) show about fashion. It was sometimes hard to tell what the point was but there were some wonderful things to see none the less.

Next is the Hauser Wirth show of Roni Horn's drawings like the one we have but much bigger. Beautiful.

Here a few other gems from Hauser Wirth. The next 2 are first the whole painting and then a detail. This artist put various size dried vegetables like beans and seeds down on the canvas and then painted black all over. Afterward, he knocked off all the small objects and left the raw canvas exposed. Do you see a face in it?