EXHIBITIONS
Edmund de Waal, "Letters to Camondo"
For once, the Musée Nissim de Camondo gives carte blanche to the British ceramic artist Edmund de Waal. This long dandy, charming and handsome orator, had presented “Psalm”, a poignant exhibition in two parts on language and exile at the Venice Biennale 2019. A man of letters as much as of art, he told the story splendid and cruel of his family in
The Rediscovered Memory
, published in 2011, reissued in 2015 under the beautiful title
Le Lièvre aux yeu
x
d'ambre
, which refers to his first passion for
netsuke
(traditional objects of Japanese clothing used to maintain
sagemono
, literally “hanging objects”).
He made a bestseller of the story of his ancestor Charles Ephrussi, patriarch of one of the greatest families of the 19th century Jewish bourgeoisie, who inspired Proust to play the character of Swann.
Friend of Schnitzler and Hofmannsthal, this banker from Odessa who lived between Paris and Vienna was a great lover of art,
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