Bob Wilson salt, with an exhibition, on the Ark of Van Cleef & Arpels.
It’s called Arche de Noe (Noah’s Ark), but you could also call the Bob’s Ark (Wilson). Van Cleef & Arpels, one of the great names of high jewelry, has decided to create a collection of 60 pins in the shape of animals and to entrust the presentation at an exhibition with the staging of the great British director. You can see the jewelry in Paris, until 26 September at the Hotel d’Evreux. True to its essential style, Bob Wilson chose a minimalist staging, with a curious contrast between the boards and their contents: the environment is, in fact, a kind of big black box that represents the interior of a ship, in which they placed the box with jewelery. The broochs of the French Maison are as always a blaze of virtuosity goldsmiths, with precious stones that come to life in the animal forms. “The idea of these sixty pairs of animals Noah’s Ark born from a painting by Jan Brueghel the Elder kept at the Musée Getty in Los Angeles, called The admission of animals to Noah’s ark,” he had explained Nicolas Bos, President of the Maison. “I will never forget the shock I felt when I found myself in front of this painting”, said. Lavinia Andorno