If you find a gap in your schedule during Paris Fashion Week, you should drop by the Musée des Arts Décoratifs: until 18 March you can admire work from the productive 40-year career of photographer, illustrator and artist Jean-Paul Goude: in the Goudemalion exhibition at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs.
The name of the exhibition is a play on words, invented by philosopher Edgar Morin to describe the term Goudes to his muses. Similar to the Cypriot King Pygmalion, who fell in love with a statue he created, which was then brought to life, Goude created statues (in the sense of the collaged interpretation of the body) of his wife Grace Jones. These statues are shown in the form of two-dimensional collages, which give the perfect silhouette of Grace Jones' supernatural proportions.
Also very striking is the presentation in the entrance area, where studies and works by Goudes, who was art director of the legendary Esquire magazine for many years, are being shown as part of the French National Holiday celebrations. Displayed around this are his commissions for Galeries Lafayettes, Printemps and DIM and other photography and collages, for example Marc Jacobs – sitting smoking on a Louis Vuitton suitcase.
