Versailles
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Versailles Most Desirable Wild Side – Now On Full View
The Ahae Exhibition in Versailles, FrancePhoto courtesy Sarah Boutinon-Tharse for High End Weekly™East of Eden: The AHAE Exhibition – Part IWe were delighted to be invited to attend the opening of the AHAE exhibition in Paris just about a few days ago. Since then, I’ve been so busy with various projects that I was unable to talk about it (we also have at least 4 interviews coming up in the next week or so). This show was very special. For one thing, I think it’s quite remarkable how through a single window, from dawn to dusk, the Korean photographer AHAE, now in his 70’s, embraces the world in the details and landscapes of nature with photographs taken from a single window, day in, day out, all year long.
A modest man, AHAE and his supporters have exhibited his works at Grand Central Station in Manhattan, at the Louvre in Paris last summer, among other locations around the world, and now at the Palace of Versailles, in conjunction with the celebration of the 400th anniversary of the birth of legendary royal landscaper André Le Notre. Until September 9th, 2013, visitors will also be able to experience the extravagant natural beauty of Le Notre in the gardens, juxtaposed with the simplistic natural beauty of AHAE’s photography in an exhibition.His photographs are spectacular, and I find them quite candid as well. I hope you’ll enjoy them, as well as the few glimpses of that famous chateau called Versailles.
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Parisian Photographer and fencing champion, Sarah Boutinon-Tharse, and Joan Parker
Versailles, 2013All Images courtesy Sarah Boutinon-Tharse for High End Weekly™All rights reserved -
Experience Some of the Most Extraordinary Photographs by Ahae at the Versailles Orangerie!
Ahae PhotographyJune 25th to September 9, 2013, Paris, FranceHigh End Weekly will be attending Ahae’s second major exhibition of photographs in France. This exhibit will be presented throughout the gardens of the Orangerie at the Palace of Versailles from June 25 through September 9, 2013. On view for the first time, THE EXTRAORDINARY WITHIN THE ORDINARY includes works in which all the languages of nature are explored by the photographer’s watchful eye: animals, movement, shadow and light. All of the photographs are taken from the same window… a radical challenge. From this unique viewpoint, Ahae aims to arouse our ability to be amazed by the simplest things and to perceive the primal messages they express. He urges us to open our eyes, see the natural world around us, and do whatever we can to protect it before it is too late.
THE EXTRAORDINARY WITHIN THE ORDINARY, an installation of monumental and large photographs, is part of the Palace of Versailles’s 2013 tribute to André Le Nôtre, the creator of the Versailles gardens. Admission is free.About The Exhibition: Subject Diversity
Though taken from the same window, Ahae’s works embrace a surprising diversity of subjects. Nature is out there, present and mobile. Its variations and nuances are the subject of a wild, moving quest—the permanent wonder offered by this landscape world, with its spaces and its inhabitants. Indeed, an impressive bestiary inhabits Ahae’s photographic world. The animals are the source of simple amazement in their dialogue with the elements, sky, earth and water.The Poetic Span of a Landscape
If every morning, winter and summer, Ahae manages to capture all the flavor of the landscape he sees from his window, it is because he understands its intricacies. From sunrise to the chiaroscuro of the moon, this microcosm is arranged around shared time. In succession, visitors traverse all the key moments of a day of the photographed landscape: a dreamed day, where we see the same subjects and events at the same time across the seasons. Variations in climate, like different times of the day, are a matrix in which the banal becomes exceptional. And focusing our gaze on “practically nothing”, the ordinary becomes extraordinary. Dialogue is established.The Languages of NatureThrough his photos, Ahae’s intent is to spur visitors to adopt a curious and attentive focus on that which speaks the language of nature. Those who know how to listen already understand the words of silence. In a world of familiar noises, Ahae’s photographs are an invitation to learn once more how to look and listen. The gray wagtail, the water deer, the azure-winged magpie and the black-naped oriole provide a plethora of characters for an open-air theater. Under the dome of the changing skies, nature is a breviary whose alphabet is written in the fleeting impressions captured by the photographer in every moment.
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Marie Antoinette: The Trendsetter and Her Domain
The Petit Trianon, Marie Antoinette’s former domain, is a masterpiece neoclassical architecture situated in the grounds of the magnificent Chateau Versailles. Whenever I visit this part of France, I’m reminded how this charming piece of architecture is as celebrated today as it was hundreds of years ago. It is an exemplar of the history of taste and of the arts in the 18th century as a page of France social and political history that went through a glorious renovation in 2006, with the help of a generous $6 Million donation from their sponsor Montres Breguet. I can talk quite a bit about this little gem of a place.
Marie Antoinette whose full name was Josepha Johanna von Habsbourg-Lothringen, Archduchess of Austria, Imperial Princess, Royal Princess of Hungary and Bohemia, Dauphiness of France, Queen of France and Navarre
Where do I start? How about the château itself, which was designed so that the royals could avoid the presence of their servants, or the troupe l’oeil wood panelling which were used for the less important rooms as a cost-saving measure? Everything about the Petit Trianon embodies the pefection of an era and society, its style and technical expertise. While Versailles represents power and splendor, the Petit Trianon represented serenity and privacy.Let’s talk briefly about the lady who once occupied this house, Marie Antoinette. So much has been written about her, but little ever mentioned about how as a member of royalty, she was without a doubt THE trendsetter of her time. She was a lady who valued her privacy, and dressed skillfully but casually for a woman in her position. She craved independence and often dressed like a maid or shepherdess. Whether she was with her close friends and sometimes in front of her real maids, she imitated lives that were so different from her own. Her straw hats adorned with flowers was so different from the demands of traditional fashion that they appeared scandalous to those who would have certainly liked to see less of a simple woman and more of a Queen. This kind of defiance certainly didn’t help her case, and she began to slowly lose favor with the French people. Marie Antoinette’s quest for beauty and her aspiration to reach a form of authenticity and purity eventually led her to develop a lifestyle that would leave its mark on the history of trend setting.
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