These are not cars, this is magic
02/06/2015
Yesterday morning, an interviewee explained that the cars that Artcurial is presenting in Hall 2.1 before the auction on February 6, 2015, are not cars, but magic. It was like traveling to another country where time had stood still.
In fact, the exhibition of the Baillon Collection is quite unconventional. The 60 or so shy finds are displayed in a large but largely dark hall. Only a few spotlights illuminate details of the badly decomposed vehicles, which have hardly been cleaned since they reappeared in public a few months ago.
The atmosphere is very spooky and Artcurial only allows a certain number of people to circulate through the room at any one time so as not to spoil the tranquillity of the tour. In fact, it all seems somehow magical.
The individual vehicles can only be recognized rudimentarily, but the traces of decomposition are all the more visible.
The composition creates its own aesthetic, which photos can of course only inadequately reproduce.
Today, these 59 vehicles are being auctioned off and it will be interesting to see how expensive the individual "ruins" will be to find new owners and which of them we will see again in a restored form in a few years' time ...
