Piero Fornasetti: The Practical Madness

Fornasetti conquers Paris with a major retrospective that traces his whole career.

Presented in the main nave of Les Arts Decoratifs, the exhibition “Piero Fornasetti: The Practical Madness” is a collection of more than one thousand pieces by Fornasetti (1913-1988) retrieved from his incredible archives.

This retrospective exhibition is a portrait of this creator who was a painter as well as a decorator, a printer and a publisher, a collector and a merchant. In the theatrical decorative universe of Fornasetti, the subjects imbued with poetry and imagination play with optical illusions, metaphysical landscapes, figures drawn from the comedy of craft and enigmatic and lunar faces depicted in multiple variations.

Piero Fornasetti paints scarves as well as furniture with his motifs, but also walls and screens, plates, trays and umbrella stands. In particular, together with the architect gio ponti, he imagined complete interior design and decoration solutions for private homes, ocean liners, casinos.

Les Arts Decoratifs
Paris, 107 rue de Rivoli

Opening times
Tuesday – Saturday
11.00 – 18.00
Thursday
11.00 – 21.00

Ticket
11,00/8,50 euro