Letters to Camondo. Edmund de Waal at the Nissim de Camondo Museum. Exhibition catalog French / English.
Decorative Arts.| N° d'inventaire | 25609 |
| Format | 19 x 27 |
| Détails | 64 pages and 79 photographs, hardcover. |
| Publication | Paris, 2022 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782383140016 |
Built in 1911 by Moïse de Camondo and then bequeathed to the French state in memory of his son Nissim, who fell in combat in 1917, the Nissim de Camondo Museum welcomes the work of a contemporary artist for the first time. The English artist, ceramist, and writer Edmund de Waal has created a series of extremely sensitive and delicate porcelain works for the museum, which discreetly blend into this historic space.
A descendant of the Ephrussi dynasty, who settled in a private mansion on Rue de Monceau, a few numbers from Moïse de Camondo's, Edmund de Waal brings his works into coexistence and dialogue with the former occupants of the premises. This exhibition catalogue thus offers an opportunity to discover Edmund de Waal's works through photographs of their in situ installation, in order to perceive how they inhabit the space with all their restraint, slipped into the nooks and crannies of the house and even into places inaccessible to the public.
The photographs leave ample room for natural light, which magnifies the hushed interior of the Camondo Hotel, and allow us to grasp all the mystery surrounding the vases and these fragile porcelain letters, inspired by Song-era China or Edo-era Japan. Sometimes chipped or enhanced with gilding in the spirit of kintsugi, which traditionally allows certain broken porcelains to be repaired with gold leaf or lacquer, Edmund de Waal's ceramics are like discreet steles that accompany the memory of the Camondo family and weave unalterable links between the past and the present.
This catalogue is a work with a refined layout, which restores the atmosphere of the place and which allows us to grasp all the delicacy of Edmund de Waal's intervention at the Nissim de Camondo museum.
Built in 1911 by Moïse de Camondo and then bequeathed to the French state in memory of his son Nissim, who fell in combat in 1917, the Nissim de Camondo Museum welcomes the work of a contemporary artist for the first time. The English artist, ceramist, and writer Edmund de Waal has created a series of extremely sensitive and delicate porcelain works for the museum, which discreetly blend into this historic space.
A descendant of the Ephrussi dynasty, who settled in a private mansion on Rue de Monceau, a few numbers from Moïse de Camondo's, Edmund de Waal brings his works into coexistence and dialogue with the former occupants of the premises. This exhibition catalogue thus offers an opportunity to discover Edmund de Waal's works through photographs of their in situ installation, in order to perceive how they inhabit the space with all their restraint, slipped into the nooks and crannies of the house and even into places inaccessible to the public.
The photographs leave ample room for natural light, which magnifies the hushed interior of the Camondo Hotel, and allow us to grasp all the mystery surrounding the vases and these fragile porcelain letters, inspired by Song-era China or Edo-era Japan. Sometimes chipped or enhanced with gilding in the spirit of kintsugi, which traditionally allows certain broken porcelains to be repaired with gold leaf or lacquer, Edmund de Waal's ceramics are like discreet steles that accompany the memory of the Camondo family and weave unalterable links between the past and the present.
This catalogue is a work with a refined layout, which restores the atmosphere of the place and which allows us to grasp all the delicacy of Edmund de Waal's intervention at the Nissim de Camondo museum.