LINEAGE & TRAJECTORY

Raghib Al-Isfehani ( Abul-Qasim al-Hussein bin Mufaddal bin Muhammad)

from ʻAjāʼib al-makhlūqāt wa-gharāʼib al-mawjūdāt (The wonders of creation, or literally, Marvels of things created and miraculous aspects of things existing) by Zakriya ibn Muhammad al-Qazwini (circa 1203-83) is among the best known texts of the Islamic world. It is often referred to as “The Cosmography.“ 

Jean Dunand & Jean Goulden

Commode à l'anglaise, pièce unique, 1921

lacquered wood

Signée Jean Goulden au revers de la porte gauche et Jean Dunand laqueur au revers de la porte droite, de forme rectangulaire en bois laqué polychrome et laque argent, à décor d'un paysage abstrait en façade et sur les côtés, les deux vantaux au revers laqué noir, l'intérieur en érable moucheté aménagé de sept tiroirs, les poignées de tirage en laque chocolat ; quatre pieds d'angles.

“Rolled young leaf fronds of various ferns.” Karl Blossfeldt. 1895/1930. 

Paris Petridis. The Void and the Country |Terrace, Garden City, Cairo. 2010.

John Constable, Study of Cirrus Clouds, c. 1822

Works from Łukasz Stokłos' exhibition Cries and Whispers

The exhibition is named after Ingmar Bergman’s 1972 film Cries and Whispers in which two sisters watch over a third in the last agonizing days of her life. Set in the gilded, red-saturated rooms of their family castle, this story of the sisters’ and, in turn, the house’s indi!erence to su!ering achieves the same dissonance in its adherence to ritual. Stoklosa’s and Bergman’s scenes share a filmic grandiosity and endeavor to capture within them the horrors of history that objects ignore.