Les Choses at Louvre, exhibition catalog and merchandise

Published April 18, 2023

Cosi Azure (Nikolas Type) for the Louvre exhibition Les Choses. Une histoire de la nature morte (Things. A History of Still Life), appearing on all boutique items (album, tote bag, mug, postcards, eraser) and the catalog where it’s accompanied by a Garamond, Theinhardt (Optimo) and Almoneda (Sudtipos).

About the exhibition:

The exhibition Things, authored by Laurence Bertrand Dorléac, proposes a new take on what was long seen as a minor genre, whose name – still life – is intriguing in itself.

Depictions of things, which date back to prehistoric times, are a wonderful window into history. Artists were the first to take things seriously by recognising their presence, imbuing them with life, glorifying their forms and meanings, their power and charm. They captured the ability of objects to fire our imagination – to make us believe, doubt, dream or act.

The exhibition revisits the still-life genre from the perspective of the ongoing dialogue between past and present artists. It sheds new light on our attachment to material things, while covering the history of art from prehistoric axes to Picasso, Chardin, Manet and the readymades of Marcel Duchamp.

The catalog was edited by Laurence Bertrand Dorléac and co-published by Lienart Éditions and Louvre éditions. It has 448 pages with 240 illustrations and measures 25.3×28.8×3.7 cm.

Eraser, souvenir from the Boutiques de Musées Louvre

Cosi Azure on the exhibition catalog cover and spine

Quote by Victor Hugo, in Almoneda Bold with discretionary ligatures

Description of Pablo Picasso’s Grande nature morte au guéridon, set in Theinhardt and Garamond

Louvre exhibition mug

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