If anyone is in Chicago, Exhibition Opening tonight: 29.01.05

Enivrez-vous! Architectural Intoxications

An exhibition of exalted and exalting architectural designs, from more than twenty countries”¦

ICARCH Gallery

709 Washington Street (@ Main Street Station)

Evanston

Open January 29th – February 28th, 2005

Reception / Opening: Saturday, January 29th, at: 7:00PM.

Here it is what the great French poet Charles Baudelaire had to say, in the short poem in prose “Enivrez-Vous” (Get Drunk) “One should always be drunk. That's the great thing; the only thing. Not to feel the horrible burden of Time weighing on your shoulders and bowing you to the earth, you should be drunk without respite. Drunk with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you please. But get drink. And if sometimes you should happen to awake, on the stairs of a palace, on the green grass of a ditch, in the dreary solitude of your own room, and find that your drunkenness is ebbing or has vanished, ask the wind and the wave, ask star, bird, or clock, ask everything that flies, everything that moans, everything that flows, everything that sings, everything that speaks, ask them the time; and the wind, the wave, the star, the bird and the clock will all reply: “It is Time to get drunk! If you are not to be the martyred slaves of Time, be perpetually drunk! With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you please.”

Or with a r c h i t e c t u r e, if we might add”¦

AND IF YOU DO VISIT PLEASE SAY HI TO DAN COMA (gallery owner) from joseph