Models and niggas in Paris

I do understand that weekend with "Niggas in Paris"(who actually were there yesterday and the day before yesterday) can be regarded more thrilling than weekend with art galleries in Paris. I'm not a huge fan of neither Kayne West nor Jay-Z, so instead of diving into rap, I dived into Saint Germain. Yes, this note is going to be personal. Look what I found:

Rafael Canogar, Inercia, 2009

(currently exhibited in Galerie Protee, 38 Rue Seine, Paris)

I cannot stop thinking about this piece not because it was painted by, as it turned out, a super influencial and important Spanish artist, whose works are in MoMA and about whom I hadn't heard a word until today, but because of the context.

Two vernacular stains of paint like two twin towers, massive and white, standing solidly with grace and strenght. Magnificent, monumental. Don't this forms look familiar just a few steps from Seine? If I hadn't looked at Notre Dame from Place St. Michel less than a quarter before I came across this painting, I don't think I would be so tremendously moved. Bud I did.

So I stood in Galerie Protee speechless and amazed.

And I still wonder why I link a painting titled "Inertia"with Notre Dame, which presence is not powerless at all. Why intertia when the forms in the picture seem to be rising, not falling?

I don't really know. But I do know that chosing towers in Paris over "Niggas in Paris" definitely gives much more food for thoughts.