{"id":118787,"date":"2025-11-06T15:09:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T15:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/118787\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T15:09:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T15:09:09","slug":"gagosian-and-wes-anderson-partner-up-for-joseph-cornell-show-in-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/118787\/","title":{"rendered":"Gagosian and Wes Anderson Partner Up for Joseph Cornell Show in Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tGagosian<\/a> has teamed up with movie director Wes Anderson<\/a> to recreate the New York studio of American artist Joseph Cornell<\/a> at the mega-gallery\u2019s Paris space on 9 rue de Castiglione. It will be part of an exhibition curated by Jasper Sharp and titled \u201cThe House of Utopia Parkway,\u201d which is slated to run from December 16 to March 14, 2026.<\/p>\n

The gallery will be transformed into \u201ca meticulously staged tableau, part time capsule, part life-size shadow box, for the first solo presentation of Cornell\u2019s work in Paris in more than four decades,\u201d Gagosian said in a statement. \u201cBorn in 1903 in Nyak, New York, Joseph Cornell could not draw, paint, or sculpt, and received no formal art education, yet he produced one of the most original and extraordinary bodies of work of any artist in the twentieth century.\u201d<\/p>\n

Anderson, whose work includes The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), and The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004), has drawn inspiration from Cornell. Take the symmetry of the latter\u2019s Palace (1943), for example; its composition and symmetry mirrors many of Anderson\u2019s iconically balanced scenes.<\/p>\n

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\n\tSeveral examples of the late artist\u2019s glass-fronted \u201cshadow boxes\u201d will feature in the show, which Gagosian described as \u201cpoetic reliquaries of memory and imagination.\u201d They include Pharmacy (1943), modelled after an apothecary cabinet and once owned by Teeny and Marcel Duchamp; Untitled (Pinturicchio Boy) (circa 1950) from his \u201cMedici\u201d series portraying multiple reproductions of Bernardino Pinturicchio\u2019s Portrait of a Boy (circa 1500) behind amber- tinted glass; and A Dressing Room for Gille (1939), which pays homage to Jean-Antoine Watteau\u2019s Gilles (1721) from the collection of the Louvre.<\/p>\n

Cornell\u2019s work can be found in the Centre Pompidou, Tate, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sof\u00eda, MoMa, and Art Institute of Chicago, among other major museums.<\/p>\n

Before he was an artist, he was a collector, and spent hours on end searching New York\u2019s stories for objects that sparked an emotional connection. He collected things like 19th-century French novels, clay pipes, and ticket stubs, which formed the basis of his art. They were given new life in his collages, objets d\u2019art, and boxed constructions. As the Smithsonian American Art Museum wrote on its website, \u201calthough Cornell never considered himself a surrealist, he found inspiration in the collages of Max Ernst and the ready-mades of Marcel Duchamp. He exhibited alongside them and maintained friendships with these artists in the 1930s and 1940s. Their confident embrace of an art form without a need for painting or sculpture encouraged Cornell\u2019s experimentation and his work of this time can be considered a cross between Surrealism and Victorian art and craft hobby.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tJoseph Cornell\u2019s studio in the basement of his family home in Queens, New York, 1971. Photo: \u00a9 Harry Roseman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gagosian has teamed up with movie director Wes Anderson to recreate the New York studio of American artist…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118788,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[437,434,435,436,438,146,1811,85,46,76008,66684],"class_list":{"0":"post-118787","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-gagosian","15":"tag-il","16":"tag-israel","17":"tag-joseph-cornell","18":"tag-wes-anderson"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}