He-Art-s...

I am not the most artistic person... When I visit a city, usually I have a list of shopping places to visit and a list of museums... Having said that, it is true that I did take the train and traveled one and a half hours from Barcelona to visit the Dali museum in the little village of Figueres... but that is Dali... I like modern art... though I appreciate the classics usually they do not interest me but modern, abstract art has always been my favourite... I have found my self crying in front of a mostly black painting in Brussels, full of emotions I could not express... And, ok, I have to admit  I have been laughing in front of a refrigerator pretending (in my humble opinion...) to be art work in a museum elsewhere, as I though I was being punked! My definition of art did not agreed with the artist's in this case...

But sometimes... sometimes art just sweeps me off my feet, sometimes I found myself looking at the work of an artist that either was put myself, along with him or herself in their art, and then all these warm feelings fill me up and I am just happy and sometimes I get to know someone's work that is light years away from me, is all I'm not but yet it makes me feel the same!!! Weird... But art can be weird...

Some days ago I got to see the work of an artist who I can describe only as "bigger than life"... an artist that, judging from here work, she is all I'm not! Full of colour and daring and provocative and so obviously a woman with a capital W!!! Her name is Joana Vasconcelos and she is simply amazing!! Unprecedented and creative and imaginative!!! Her work is not only better than shoes but... has also been a gigantic shoe made of cooking pots!!! But what I found mostly impressive were her hearts made of plastic cutlery!! I will post both pictures here (forgive the amateur style...) as I believe that they are better than one thousand words...