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Portraits d'Int茅rieurs
Wallpaper, carpets and curtains, pictures, mirrors, flowers and cups of tea... The exhibition Portraits d鈥橧nt茅rieurs introduces the different areas of Villa Sauber re-visited and presented by five contemporary artists.
Drawing from a repertory of forms borrowed from literature, art history, stage and film, Marc-Camille Chaimowicz, Danica Dakic, Brice Dellsperger, Nick Mauss and Laure Prouvost renew our perception of the former abode of the English painter Robert Sauber by developing different elements of d茅cors in each of the museum鈥檚 rooms.
The source of Portraits d鈥橧nt茅rieurs lies in a private collection of rooms, through two installations by the artists Marc-Camille Chaimowicz and Nick Mauss, specifically rekindled for Villa Sauber.
A laminated plywood screen slides back to reveal the installation Jean Cocteau... 鈥� an imaginary bedroom of the poet, inspired by the d茅cor of Les Enfants Terribles (1929) and made out of painted wooden panels, carpets, and various pieces of furniture and objects that Marc-Camille Chaimowicz made or found. Placed throughout the former living room of Villa Sauber, these elements recreate an old-fashioned bourgeois interior that resembles the 鈥渃hamber theater鈥� imagined by Cocteau, a combination of memorabilia and references to art history. Concurrently to this installation, Marc-Camille Chaimowicz presents a selection of works chosen from the NMNM鈥檚 collections, underpinned by Jean Cocteau鈥檚 relationship with the Ballets Russes and the Principality of Monaco. Christian B茅rard鈥檚 ethereal drawings for Cotillon and The Seventh Symphony are shown alongside Joan Miro鈥檚 set decoration for Jeux d'Enfants. A unique ceramic piece, which Jean Cocteau made in 1958 for the Cap d鈥橝il theatre, is also presented for the first time.
Nick Mauss鈥� piece Concern, Crush, Desire is a reconstruction of an antechamber decorated by Christian B茅rard in 1939 for Guerlain鈥檚 Champs-Elys茅es Institute, and encases the works selected from the NMNM鈥檚 collections in yellow velvet and cotton appliqu茅. Nick Mauss鈥� drawings interact with several set decoration projects: Pavel Tchelitchew鈥檚 scenery for the ballet Ode, an annotated scale model of the set created by Natalia Goncharova for La P茅ri, as well as two photographs in which Constantin Brancusi captures Lizica Codreanu dancing to Satie鈥檚 Gymnopedies, and Cocteau鈥檚 drawings of B茅rard made up and dressed as a transvestite.
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Wallpaper, carpets and curtains, pictures, mirrors, flowers and cups of tea... The exhibition Portraits d鈥橧nt茅rieurs introduces the different areas of Villa Sauber re-visited and presented by five contemporary artists.
Drawing from a repertory of forms borrowed from literature, art history, stage and film, Marc-Camille Chaimowicz, Danica Dakic, Brice Dellsperger, Nick Mauss and Laure Prouvost renew our perception of the former abode of the English painter Robert Sauber by developing different elements of d茅cors in each of the museum鈥檚 rooms.
The source of Portraits d鈥橧nt茅rieurs lies in a private collection of rooms, through two installations by the artists Marc-Camille Chaimowicz and Nick Mauss, specifically rekindled for Villa Sauber.
A laminated plywood screen slides back to reveal the installation Jean Cocteau... 鈥� an imaginary bedroom of the poet, inspired by the d茅cor of Les Enfants Terribles (1929) and made out of painted wooden panels, carpets, and various pieces of furniture and objects that Marc-Camille Chaimowicz made or found. Placed throughout the former living room of Villa Sauber, these elements recreate an old-fashioned bourgeois interior that resembles the 鈥渃hamber theater鈥� imagined by Cocteau, a combination of memorabilia and references to art history. Concurrently to this installation, Marc-Camille Chaimowicz presents a selection of works chosen from the NMNM鈥檚 collections, underpinned by Jean Cocteau鈥檚 relationship with the Ballets Russes and the Principality of Monaco. Christian B茅rard鈥檚 ethereal drawings for Cotillon and The Seventh Symphony are shown alongside Joan Miro鈥檚 set decoration for Jeux d'Enfants. A unique ceramic piece, which Jean Cocteau made in 1958 for the Cap d鈥橝il theatre, is also presented for the first time.
Nick Mauss鈥� piece Concern, Crush, Desire is a reconstruction of an antechamber decorated by Christian B茅rard in 1939 for Guerlain鈥檚 Champs-Elys茅es Institute, and encases the works selected from the NMNM鈥檚 collections in yellow velvet and cotton appliqu茅. Nick Mauss鈥� drawings interact with several set decoration projects: Pavel Tchelitchew鈥檚 scenery for the ballet Ode, an annotated scale model of the set created by Natalia Goncharova for La P茅ri, as well as two photographs in which Constantin Brancusi captures Lizica Codreanu dancing to Satie鈥檚 Gymnopedies, and Cocteau鈥檚 drawings of B茅rard made up and dressed as a transvestite.
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