"It's essentially a window display,"
"And we're doing it at Christmas, which was Cornell's favourite time of year. His birthday was on Christmas Eve. Leo Castelli, Peggy Guggenheim, all his dealers gave him shows at Christmas time because they thought that his boxes made small, inexpensive Christmas presents."
""The rest of it," Sharp says, "we're reverse engineering.""
Wes Anderson is recreating Joseph Cornell's New York studio in Gagosian Gallery's Rue de Castiglione storefront in Paris next month, timed for Cornell's birthday on 24 December. Around 12 of Cornell's most recognisable shadow-box works will be exhibited alongside hundreds or thousands of found objects, and visitors will not be allowed to enter the gallery; the presentation will function as a window display. The curator Jasper Sharp, who has worked with Anderson and sourced art for The Phoenician Scheme, emphasizes Cornell's association with Christmas shows. Pharmacy (1943) was once owned by Teeny and Marcel Duchamp. Untitled (Pinturicchio Boy) (c.1950) belongs to the Medici series. A Dressing Room for Gille (1939) references Watteau's Gilles at the Louvre, and Blériot II (c.1956) honours aviator Louis Blériot.
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