17. RÉFLEXION D'UN COLLECTIONNEUR
In this garden-museum you feel like you're entering a private enclosure. Just like Alice, you venture in without really knowing what's beyond, and find yourself in a place where the owner is nowhere to be seen...
Awarded on the 4th of July 2015 by a jury of professionals renowned in the world of garden art
It all looks as if the owner has decided to leave the grass to grow higgledy-piggledy, and the plants to develop as they wish... Then, at the bottom of the garden, you see a building that could be a museum, and a large wall looms up hung with paintings, and an entrance indicating "visit continues this way"...
The paintings are vibrant and carefully composed, in stark contrast with the first part of the garden. Is this the secret garden of a painting collector? Or a museum in which nature has gained the upper hand?
But suddenly you get the feeling this isn't your average exhibition of paintings. For some subjects disappear from one frame only to reappear in another. In fact, these aren't paintings hanging on the wall at all, but large, slightly tilted mirrors... And the contents of these mirror-paintings are a reflection of the garden and its clumps of plants - clumps which you didn't spot directly, for they are hidden by a meadow of grass in the foreground.
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