Gustave Fayet — Living Among Colours
Collector and creator Gustave Fayet brings paintings, objects and interiors into conversation. At the Fondation Louis Vuitton, colour becomes a way of inhabiting space.
· Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris
© Association du Musée d’Art Gustave Fayet
A painting changes with its surroundings. Beside a fabric, a vase or another painting, its colours reveal themselves differently. With this thought in mind, we can approach Gustave Fayet: consider a collection as a network of relationships, then pause before each individual work.
The Fondation Louis Vuitton presents ‘Gustave Fayet, Collector – Creator. Icons of Modern Art’. Works by Van Gogh, Gauguin, Redon, Bonnard, Vuillard and Matisse appear alongside Fayet’s own creations. Painting, ceramics, carpets and wallpapers offer ways to explore the exchanges between fine and decorative arts.
© Fondation Louis Vuitton / Nicolas Matheus
Crédit photographique : voir la Fondation Louis Vuitton.
Redon’s decoration for the library at Fontfroide offers a moment to pause: how do we look at a painting conceived for a particular place? Fayet’s Les Cyprès bleus and Bonnard’s Le Jardinier suggest other ways of allowing colour to construct space. The images gathered here provide a few starting points for a visit.
On Fabricia Lepoutre’s website, this subject extends a reflection on art in lived-in surroundings. A canvas can establish a relationship with a wall, shift the balance of a room and make us want to stay. Each viewer can imagine that conversation while allowing the painting its own rhythm and its ability to surprise.
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