will close the show in a few days Costumes d'enfants, miroir des grands the Guimet Museum in Paris. An agile booklet, supplement to the journal art absolument , and an extensive catalog (they reproduce the cover here) illustrates the new and exciting display of clothing and other infant clothing (hats, bibs, socks, slippers ...) of the companies Asian antique. The exhibition offers little-known aspects of traditional Asian textile art, but also reveals to the visitor western cultural meanings, rituals, sacred present in clothing infant eastern Europe - of course with regard to the privileged classes of those societies. The items on display testify to the ancestral customs of China and India, to those of Korea, Pakistan, Japan and offer to those who see a riot of colors, realistic or stylized representations of yarns as bright silks, precious as gold, like the enchanted mirrors. The exhibition is also the museum's tribute to Krishna Riboud, passionate collector of oriental fabrics, "... that in his apartment in the Avenue de Breteuil Paris established the headquarters of the association for the study and documentation of textiles Asians, "recalls Aurélie Samuel, head of the exhibition, in an interview.
The presentation in French, accompanied by images of quality, able to render faithfully characteristics of the articles reproduced, can be read here http://www.guimet.fr/costumesdenfants/01-presentation.html : an opportunity for virtual tour for those who are far away and can not travel to Paris by January 24.
Costumes d'enfants, miroir des grands. Homage to Krishna Riboud, additional art absolument, quarterly, Paris 2010.
Costumes d'enfants, miroir des grands. Homage to Krishna Riboud, exhibition catalog, published by RMN, Paris 2010
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