Toiletpaper in Paris

Cattelan and Ferrari take over Galeries Lafayette with installations that offer visitors a witty, food-inspired take on France’s capital, in a flourish of summery colours.

Toiletpaper at Galeries Lafayette, Paris, 2016

Galeries Lafayette invited Toiletpaper to take over the space with creative duo Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari that present a series of window displays, an exhibition at Galeries des Galeries and an installation under the dome in Coupole.

The project of the store, the exhibition and gathering space is a collaborative effort with Seletti and Gufram who, together with the duo, have produced a variety of everyday objects tinged with their characteristic surrealistic images.

Over ten years ago, Pierpaolo Ferrari went to photograph Maurizio Cattelan. This through-the-lens meeting would be a defining moment for the two Italian designers who, in 2010, founded Toiletpaper, a magazine composed exclusively of photographs and a platform for their art that ensured a wide audience.

For the window sequence, Toiletpaper has created 11 images which will be featured in the window displays on Boulevard Haussmann. Summer, Paris and romance will set the tone Among the scenes, the Eiffel Tower on holiday on a desert island, or a “store-like woman” surrounded by a multitude of distinctively objects.

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Toiletpaper at Galeries Lafayette, Paris, vernissage. Photo Jean Picon

Toiletpaper at Galeries Lafayette, Paris, Maurizio Cattelan. Photo Jean Picon

Toiletpaper at Galeries Lafayette, Paris, 2016. Photo Thibault Voisin

Toiletpaper at Galeries Lafayette, Paris, 2016. Photo Thibault Voisin

Toiletpaper at Galeries Lafayette, Paris, 2016. Photo Thibault Voisin

Windows
until 27 July 2016
Dome installation
until 27 August 2016
TP-rama exhibition
until 10 September 2016

Toiletpaper at Lafayette
Galeries Lafayette
40 BD Haussmann, Paris

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