You’ll find monumental works by the likes of Ai Weiwei (a zigzag path), Lee Ufan (what looks from a distance like a little chapel turns, close up, into an exhilarating exercise in visual trickery: all those shadows are painted), Richard Long (a circle of stones, at once ancient and modern) and, best of all, Emin’s powerfully affecting and intentionally hard-to-find self-portrait. The real draw is the masterfully positioned sculpture-much of it site-specific-that one happens upon when exploring the 50 acres of quintessential Provençal landscape that make up the French estate. Crouching Spider, 2003, by Louise Bourgeois Louise Bourgeois:© The Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS, NY and DACS, London 2021/Photo: Richard Haughton (CROUCHINGSPIDER, 2003)įrom the spidery Tracey Emin etchings and brooding monochrome Hiroshi Sugimoto seascapes in the bedrooms to the embroideries by Louise Bourgeois and abstract paintings by Damien Hirst and Sean Scully in the public areas, there is art everywhere at Villa La Coste.
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