cactus collection
photography by STEPHAN CRASNEANSCKI
Cacti have always fascinated artists, from Diego Rivera to Karl Blossfeldt and Robert Mapplethorpe. YVES SAINT LAURENT collected them and turned the garden of the VILLA MAJORELLE in Marrakech, which he acquired with Pierre Bergé in 1980, into a cactus museum in its own right. The cactus plant can be painted or photographed, but it cannot be touched, held, or easily transported. It can be seen as a symbol of artistic autonomy — a unique form which exists in and of itself, yet must protect itself with thorns and spines.
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Night Pictures
by Olivier Zahm, Stéphane Feugère, and Brad Elterman with a portfolio by Kate Simon
by Thomas Lenthal
by Jeffrey Deitch
by Arnaud Viviant
by Angelo Flaccavento
by John Jefferson Selve
by Mehdi Belhaj Kacem
by Olivier Zahm
by Sven Schumann
by Olivier Zahm
by Glenn O'Brien
by Olivier Zahm
by Olivier Zahm
by Robi Rodriguez
by Camille Bidault-Waddington
by Petra Collins
text by Paul Preciado
by Alex Antitch
by Juergen Teller
by Casper Sejersen
by Benjamin Alexander Huseby
by Theo Wenner
text by Karley Sciortino
by Sandy Kim
by Andreas Larsson
by Katja Rahlwes
by Giasco Bertoli
by Gianni Oprandi
by Olivier Zahm
by Stephan Crasneanscki
by Olivier Zahm and Donatien Grau
by Hugo Tillman