BELLAS ARTES

Descubra las obras fundamentales de Paul Cézanne a través de manzanas, peras y las nuevas perspectivas experimentales del artista al que Matisse y Picasso calificaron como el‘padre de todos nosotros’. De naturalezas muertas a imágenes de su querida montaña Sainte-Victoire, recorremos el audaz acercamiento del artista a la luz, el espacio y la... Durante la segunda mitad del siglo XIX, en los verdes campos de los alrededores de Aix-en-Provence, Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) se consagró a la representación de paisajes y naturalezas muertas que se convertirían luego en obras clave del arte moderno. Con pinceladas compactas e intensas y un audaz acercamiento al espacio y la luz, Cézanne intermedió entre el impresionismo y los movimientos fundamentales de principios del siglo XX y se convirtió, en palabras de Matisse y Picasso, en "el padre de todos nosotros”. Esta nueva aproximación a su trabajo selecciona las obras clave que permiten entender el desarrollo, las innovaciones y la influencia crucial que Cézanne ha tenido en el arte moderno. Desde composiciones de frutas y peras hasta escenas de bañistas, recorremos su experimentación con el color, la perspectiva y la textura para evocar“una armonía paralela a la naturaleza”, así como el propio proceso de ver y representar.

En una época en la que la moda estaba dominada por hombres, Gabrielle «Coco» Chanel reescribió las convenciones sobre la feminidad a través de creaciones basadas en la simplicidad, la practicidad y una elegancia relajada. Su legado, de la petite robe noire al icónico Chanel n° 5, se mantiene como un patrimonio fuerte y distintivo, renovado y reinterpretado por el gran Karl Lagerfeld y, posteriormente, por Virginie Viard y Mathieu Blazy, quienes han logrado que la marca siga siendo sinónimo de elegancia y estilo atemporal.

Chanel expert Isabelle Fiemeyer offers a rare, deeply personal look into the life of the iconic designer Coco Chanel. This biography draws from exclusive interviews with Chanel’s closest family members and extensive archival research to reveal the designer’s most private world—her love for symbolism and poetry, her romantic relationships, and her enduring bond with her nephew, André Palasse, whom she raised as her own son. His daughter, Gabrielle Palasse-Labrunie—Chanel’s goddaughter and only direct descendant—shares intimate memories and access to her great-aunt’s cherished collection of fashion, jewelry, and art. Divided into five chronological sections, the book immerses readers in Chanel’s life, unveiling rarely seen personal artifacts: gifts from her great love, Boy Capel, as well as her furniture, favorite jewelry, talismans, garments, family photos, and correspondence. This new text expands upon Fiemeyer’s research from her previous books on the designer and includes the compelling chapter “Alias Coco,” which explores newly uncovered documents from French Secret Service archives, shedding light on Chanel’s clandestine activities during World War II and her connections to the Resistance.

Christian Bérard worked freely in many artistic circles and fields as a painter, designer of theater and film sets and costumes, fashion designer, interior designer, masterful draftsman, and colorist. His iconic drawings epitomized the Paris fashion world and graced the covers of Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, and Women’s Wear Daily in the 1920s and 1930s. Tracing his eccentric and colorful life of encounters and artistic partnerships with the greatest creatives of his time—Jean-Michel Frank, Christian Dior, Gabrielle Chanel, Jean Cocteau, Boris Kochno—this book includes more than two hundred of his paintings, drawings, photographs, intimate correspondences, and interior decorations, along with portraits of Bérard by Cartier-Bresson, Horst, and Schall.

The works of Christo and Jeanne-Claude are monuments of transience. Gigantic in scale, they are always temporary, created to exist only for a limited time and to leave unique, unrepeatable impressions. “From the smallest of the Packages made in Paris in the early 1960s, to the delicate pattern of hundreds of branches embraced by a translucent fabric veil... in Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s works there is nothing abstract, nothing imagined; it is all there―corporeal and tangible.” (Lorenza Giovanelli)