PARÍS.
Galeries Lafayette is inviting TOILETPAPER to celebrate summer in Paris. From 6th July, creative duo Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari will spice up the Galeries Lafayette store with a display window sequence, an exhibition at Galeries des Galeries and an installation beneath the dome.
Photographer Pierpaolo Ferrari first met artist Maurizio Cattelan when capturing him on camera more than ten years ago. The magic worked and the pair went on to create the experimental art magazine TOILETPAPER in 2010.
For the window sequence, TOILETPAPER has created 11 images which will be featured in stunning displays in each of the windows on Boulevard Haussmann. Summer, Paris and romance will set the tone. Among the scenes, the Eiffel Tower on holiday on a desert island, or a «store-like woman» surrounded by a multitude of distinctively TOILETPAPER objects. The artistic duo offers visitors a witty, food-inspired take on France’s beloved capital, in a flourish of summery colours with hints of blue, white and red.
For the Galerie des Galeries exhibit, TOILETPAPER is playing around with the setting. Store, exhibition space and gathering place all in one, the project is a collaborative effort with designers Seletti and Gufram, who together with the duo have produced a variety of everyday objects tinged with their characteristic surrealistic images.
TOILETPAPER is also taking over the cupola and imagine an original installation.
Photos: Galeries Lafayette Haussmann.
