06/11/2012
Amongst this sun bleached panorama, unexpected and seemingly far too unsuspected still, Pasifika, a Museum Pacific Asia resides. Obviously conceived with the refined and eclectic taste of a collector, paired to the delightful logic of a story teller, the museum reveals a flow of rooms filled with a wonderful and well opinionated selection of over 600 works of art created by no less than 140 artists originating from 20 different countries. As one of its co-founder, Philippe Augier states in the introduction of the book: ”the experience of contemplating artwork is a constant pleasure, because every moment spent in front of a painting offers a chance to evoke emotion, memories or dreams”. And so it is indeed, strolling through the 8 pavilions which form the museum’s gallery.The first gallery introduces to Indonesian artist such as Ida Bagus Nyoman Rai and its graphic, descriptive yet subtly poetic work, the wild, colourful often insightful pictorial expressions of Nyoman Gurnasa or the precise work of Made Wianta.
