Wes Anderson and Juman Malouf prepare exhibition in Vienna
if you dream of travel to Darjeeling, stay at the ** Grand Budapest Hotel ** or at the Chevalier, sail to board of the Belafonte and dance on Moonrise Kingdom beach, You can't miss the exhibition that ** Wes Anderson and his partner Juman Malouf ** will open on November 6 at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.
Continuing the series of exhibitions begun with Ed Ruscha in 2012 and Edmund de Waal in 2016, the city's Museum of Art History has invited Anderson and Malouf to organize an exhibition that promises to drive fans of the famous American filmmaker crazy.
The proposal was simple to formulate but not easy to carry out, as it has involved a great deal of search and selection among more than four million objects, both exposed to the public and hidden in the most inhospitable corners of the museum.
The exhibition will be exhibited at the Museum of Art History in Vienna and will then travel to the Fondazione Prada in Milan
From the oldest treasure, a necklace of ceramic beads from Ancient Egypt, up to the most recent a carved wooden monkey in Indonesia Nearly 5,000 years later, the show promises to be a spectacular display of breadth, depth, history and complexity never seen before.
'Spitzmaus mummy in a coffin and other treasures of the Kunsthistorisches Museum' is the name with which they have baptized the exhibition, which will include more than 400 pieces from the museum's fourteen collections, some never before shown to the public.
Works of the art gallery; Egyptian, Greek and Roman antiquities; a selection of objects from the Kunstkammer and the imperial treasure as well as objects from the Arms and Armor collection of the Numismatic Cabinet and the collection of Historical Musical Instruments.
Anderson and Malouf: an unusual couple
Also included will be parts of the Imperial Carriage Museum; of Weltmuseum; of Theater Museum, of ephesus museum, of the Library and Ambras Castle in Innsbruck and some objects from the Natural History Museum in Vienna.
Is about the first exhibition curated by Wes Anderson and his partner Juman Malouf. Illustrator, designer and writer, Malouf was born in Beirut, grew up in London and studied Fine Arts at Brown University (Rhode Island) and Tisch School of the Arts (New York).
The two form a most peculiar duo. Juman Malouf has designed and illustrated for theater and cinema in the United States and of course, has collaborated in some Anderson films such as Moonrise Kingdom, Fantasti Mr. Fox or The Grand Budapest Hotel. She published her first novel, The triology of Two, in 2015.
A search among more than 400 million objects
The exhibition, the result of two years of work, will continue until April 28, 2019. In addition, it will be accompanied by a illustrated catalog.
For the exhibition, Wes Anderson has produced a trailer advancing some brushstroke of what we can find.
After passing through Vienna, the exhibition will travel to the **Fondazione Prada in Milan. ** This choice has nothing to do with chance, since the Wes Anderson aesthetic matches perfectly with the universe that hosts the Foundation, which also has the light bar, designed by Anderson himself.
Luce bar, a must for Wes Anderson fans visiting Milan