Leonetto Cappiello: a Belle Epoque with a light touch
Elegant women, playwrights, composers, declaiming actors, musicians in rehearsal, spectators and celebrities are the protagonists of the show that Leo Cappiello stages in his delicate pastel drawings.
The story of Charles Frederick Worth (1825 - 1895) and the legendary haute couture house that the English designer opened at 7 Rue de la Paix. An exhibition that brings together more than 400 works - clothes, objects and accessories, paintings, graphic arts - to tell the story of the historic maison.
It was in Paris, the young John Singer Sargent received his training, developed his style and achieved his first successes. An exhibition to rediscover the great English artist.
Wolfgang Tillmans has been given carte blanche to occupy the 6.000 square meters of the Bibliothèque publique d’information with his art. Through the lens of his aesthetic universe, Tillmans explores the form, architecture and functions of this place.
