Purple Magazine
— The Brain Issue #33 S/S 2020
huysmans syndrome
photography by OLIVIER ZAHM
style by YASMINE ESLAMI
an exhibition at the musée d’orsay in paris, devoted to the dreamy aesthetic of the late-19th
century french art critic and writer
joris-karl huysmans, with scenography
by italian artist francesco vezzoli
the first anti-establishment appropriation
of dreams and emotions as a source of extreme beauty,
ushering in a radical new world of decadence
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FRANCESCO VEZZOLI, SELF-PORTRAIT (FROM PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR), 2019, DETAIL, COTTON AND METALLIC SPACE EMBROIDERY ON CANVAS, COURTESY OF THE ARTIST AND THE MUSÉE D'ORSAY, PARIS
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BLACK BALLROOM DRESS IN BONDED VELVET BALENCIAGA, PANTHÈRE DE CARTIER JEWELRY CARTIER WILLIAM BOUGUEREAU, THE BIRTH OF VENUS, 1879, DETAIL, OIL ON CANVAS, 118 X 84 3/5 INCHES, MUSÉE D'ORSAY, PARIS EXHIBITON VIEW
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GIOVANNI BOLDINI, COUNT ROBERT DE MONTESQUIOU, 1897, DETAIL, OIL ON CANVAS, 45 1/2 X 32 2/5 INCHES MUSÉE D’ORSAY, PARIS, EXHIBITION VIEW
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OVERSIZED LILAC SATIN TOP AND DECONSTRUCTED FLORAL TROUSERS COMME DES GARÇONS TOP: ODILON REDON, CHRIST ON THE CROSS, CIRCA 1910, DETAIL, OIL ON CARDBOARD, MUSÉE D’ORSAY, PARIS LEFT: ODILON REDON, HEAD OF THE CHRIST, 1877, DETAIL, PASTEL AND CHARCOAL ON WOVEN PAPER, PETIT PALAIS, PARIS RIGHT: ODILON REDON, THE SACRED HEART, 1906, DETAIL, PASTEL AND CHARCOAL ON PAPER, MUSÉE D’ORSAY, PARIS EXHIBITION VIEW