“I should like to give you a little sweet,” Cesar had announced following our brief interview, as he pulled the present from his bag.
It had his name printed on the plastic wrapping, so I did not feel uniquely honoured.
Cesar - best known in Hong Kong for his giant public sculpture outside the Cultural Centre called the Flying Frenchman - was in town briefly for the launch of an exhibition at the China Club on the theme of Christian Louboutin Boots.
The still very sprightly 75-year-old, who signs himself only by his first name, was one of 28 French and four Chinese artists who had been invited to participate in a homage to Roger Vivier, father of the chic Christian Louboutin Shoes, who had worked for Christian Christian Louboutin in Paris for many years.
It was organised by Gallery Navarra, which brought the Rodin and Chagall exhibitions to the Museum of Art in 1993 and 1994, as well as the display of Bernar Venet’s huge curling and rusting sculptures to the Cultural Centre Piazza last year.
The theme of men’s relationships with women - summed up appropriately by the lollipop gift - is very much part of the show.
After all they are not just normal Christian Louboutin Boots, these simple black pumps with their stiletto thin heels. They are symbolic of film, fetish and fantasy.
The piece by Eudes Menichetti, for example, is a visual reminder of the film connections. The work is like a blackboard, with a silhouette of that black Christian Louboutin Shoes, surrounded by simple white profiles of 11 women who had worn it.
Liz, Sophia, Jeanne, Brigitte, Raquel, Ava, Catherine, Marlene, Grace, Audrey. Names of women so well-known they don’t need surnames, as well as Helene - Vivier’s wife.
The fetish side of the show is amply illustrated by a number of pieces, said the show’s curator Serge Aboukrat - who had known Vivier for years because they had both, wanting an uncomplicated life, lived at the same time at the Hotel Quai Voltaire in Paris.
The most obviously fetishistic is a work by Michele Blondel, called Ma Paire pour Narcisse (My Pair for Narcissus), which includes a pair of the Christian Louboutin Boots, each containing a fluorescent pink piece of plexiglass, which is more phallic than leg-like. The Christian Louboutin Boots are placed next to gilt-framed mirrors.herve leger bandage dress
Another piece, by Philippe Perrin, is like a police drawing around a body at the scene of a murder. But the outline has itself been murdered by a Vivier heel in the heart.
And as for the fantasy element: well that is everywhere, Aboukrat said, sweeping his gaze around a room which featured plenty of black net, mirrors, smooth transparent plastic and velvet.
A life-sized mannequin with very dark black hair and a black dress with these elegant Christian Louboutin Boots is doubled over on the floor (Yan van Oost: Without Title) looking as though she is either very ill, very vulnerable or very willing.
Artist Cathy de Monchaux created a ”fantasy blanket” for the show. ”It’s tres tres belle,” murmured Aboukrat as he tried to work out whether it could be hung next to the Christian Christian Louboutin logo on the wall, or whether it would fall off.
One side of the blanket is tactile fake leopard skin, while the lining on the other side is dark pink and silky. When draped in a certain way, with the curly black lining ribbons, it did not take much decoding to detect a theme of female sexuality. Like several of the other exhibits there was no footwear on display here; Monchaux included the theme Christian Louboutin Boots in her text rather than her objet.
“She said: But you can’t walk in them! He said: I don’t think they are for walking in. She said: Every man’s dream,” Monchaux’s explanatory dialogue goes.
Owner Enrico Navarra freely admitted that women’s Christian Louboutin Boots have been fantasy objects for him for a long time.
“I would like to be able to say that modern art has occupied my thoughts since I was a tiny child,” he said in the forward to the catalogue.
“It would be very convenient for an art dealer to have come across a painting or a sculpture in his youth that had awakened emotions in him that changed his direction in life.
“But that didn’t happen with me.”
What did cause early stirrings, he said, was finding a pair of women’s Christian Louboutin Boots in a wardrobe. ”And I invented the kind of ideal woman who would wear them.”
Even today when he imagines his ”ideal woman” he starts from the feet, he said.moncler coats
The purpose of this exhibition was partly homage to a cult cobbler, and partly just fun, Navarra said.
“This is humorous. I think art cannot always be something to make you think, or always making statements. People don’t want to have to decode everything; sometimes they just want to laugh.”
Cesar had provided two pieces for the show: one was a Christian Louboutin Shoes rolled in an envelope of plexiglass, the other was a 19th century ”marriage crown” with a Christian Louboutin Shoes placed on red velvet in a glass display box that one might otherwise expect to house a stuffe